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What is the main focus of Marxist criticism?
Which ideology does Marxist criticism consider as an overpowering presence?
Which critic is associated with advocating for men's rights and traditional gender roles?
What is the main focus of sociological criticism?
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Which approach deals with issues related to men's rights and masculinity?
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What does Marxist criticism reveal as the ultimate source of people's experience?
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What is the primary focus of Gender Criticism in literary analysis?
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What does Gender Criticism suggest about power dynamics in literary works?
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According to Gender Criticism, what aspect of creation influences the literary text?
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What is a key aspect that Gender Criticism looks into when analyzing literary works?
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Which statement best describes the Feminist Approach in literary analysis?
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In Gender Criticism, what does culture play a significant role in determining?
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What is one of the common aspects looked into formalism when critiquing a material?
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In historical-biographical criticism, what aspect aims to comprehend a literary work by probing at social, cultural, political, and intellectual context?
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What does formalist criticism explore in relation to a literary work?
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How does historical-biographical criticism utilize insights when explicating a literary work?
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What does historical-biographical criticism claim about literature and authors?
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Which approach considers a work's first-order context, such as the author's life?
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Study Notes
Critical Approaches to Critique a Material
- Various ways to analyze and critique a material, including technical aspects, gender approach, audience reaction, and portrayal of class struggle and social structure.
Formalist Criticism
- Analyzes a literary work by focusing on its internal elements, such as structure, imagery, and symbols.
- Examines the relationship between form and content, and the interconnectedness of various parts of the work.
- Seeks to understand the work as a unified whole.
Historical-Biographical Criticism
- Aims to comprehend a literary work by probing the social, cultural, political, and intellectual context that produced it.
- Considers the author's biography and milieu as crucial in understanding the work.
- Explicates the literary work by utilizing insights derived from the author's background and historical context.
Sociological Criticism
- Evaluates a literary piece in the cultural, economic, and political context that explores the linkage between the author and his society.
- Scrutinizes the author's society to grasp a better understanding of the masterpiece.
Marxist Criticism
- Concerned with differences between economic classes and implications of a capitalist system.
- Focuses on the desire to work with men's issues and yields to the political conviction that feminism does not fit with the facts.
- Attempts to reveal that the ultimate source of people's experience is the socioeconomic system.
Masculinist Approach
- Focuses on men's issues and yields to the political conviction that feminism does not fit with the facts.
- Advocates for men's rights, in opposition to feminism, and supporting traditional gender roles.
Moral-Philosophical Criticism
- Focuses on the themes, views of the world, morality, and philosophies of the author.
- Establishes the purpose of teaching morality and investigating philosophical issues.
- Examines social class as represented in the work, social class of the writer, social class of the characters, and conflicts and economic classes interactions between.
Reader-Response Criticism
- Concerned with the reviewer's reaction as an audience of the work.
- Examines how the reader's personal experiences and biases influence their interpretation of the text.
Feminist Approach
- Focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of sociopolitical, psychological, and economic oppression.
- Reveals how aspects of culture are patriarchal.
- Examines how gender issues are presented in literary works and other aspects of human production and daily life.
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Description
Explore different literary criticism theories such as Sociological Criticism and Marxist Criticism that evaluate literary works in various social, economic, and political contexts.
