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Lesson 01 Critical Approaches in Writing a Critique Critique Paper briefly and genre of critically summarizes and academic evaluates a work text or concept  Critiques can be used to evaluate CREATIVE...

Lesson 01 Critical Approaches in Writing a Critique Critique Paper briefly and genre of critically summarizes and academic evaluates a work text or concept  Critiques can be used to evaluate CREATIVE WORKS novels, RESEARCHES exhibits, films, monographs, MEDIA shows, images, journal, articles, poetry systematic news report, reviews, theories feature articles  CRITICIZE, CRITIQUE, CRITIC CRITIC CRITIQUE CRITICIZE the paper or the person to judge or to essay and the doing the evaluate product of criticism someone or criticizing something Why do we make critiques?  Purpose of Critique Gauge the usefulness or impact or a work in a field creativity message impact CRITICAL APPROACHES FORMALIST CRITICISM claims that literary works have intrinsic properties and treats each work as a distinct work of art  FORMALIST CRITICISM This approach regards literature as “a unique form of humanknowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms.” All the elements necessary for understanding the work are contained within the work itself. Of particular interest to the formalist critic are the elements of form—style, structure, tone, imagery, etc. — that are found within the text. A primary goal for formalist critics is to determine how such elementswork together with the text’s content to shape its effects upon readers.  CRITICAL APPROACHES READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM concerned with the reviewer’s reaction as an audience of a literary work claims that a text does not have meaning until the reader reads and interprets it.  FORMALIST CRITICISM This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader. It attempts “to describe what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting a text” and reflects that reading, like writing, is a creative process. CRITICAL APPROACHES FEMINIST CRITICISM focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of socio-political, psychological, and economic oppression. tends to reveal the patriarchal aspects of our culture CRITICAL APPROACHES MARXIST CRITICISM concerned with the differences between economic classes attempts to reveal that the ultimate source of people’s experiences is the socio-economic system CRITICAL APPROACHES HISTORICAL CRITICISM This approach “seeks to understand a literary work byinvestigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it—a context that necessarily includes the artist’s biography and milieu.” A key goal for historical critics is to understand the effect of a literary work upon its original readers. CRITICAL APPROACHES MEDIA CRITICISM It is the act of closely examining and judging the media. When we examine the media and various media stories, we often find instances of media bias. Media bias is the perception that the media is reporting the news in a partial or prejudiced manner. Media bias occurs when the media seems topush a specific viewpoint, rather than reporting the news objectively. Keep in mind that media bias also occurs when the media seems to ignore an important aspect ofthe story.  CRITICAL APPROACHES STRUCTURALISMcultural and psychological structures. It tended to offer a single It focused on how human behavior is determined by social, unified approach to human life that would embrace all disciplines. The essence of structuralism is the belief that “things cannot be understood in isolation, they have to be seen in the context of largerstructures which contain them. For example, the structuralist analysis of Donne’s poem, Good Morrow, demands more focus on the relevant genre, the concept of courtly love, rather than on the close reading of the formal elements of the text.