INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY CRITICISM || QUARTER 3 WEEK 6 || GRADE 10 || MELC-Based || Aizie Dumuk
Summary
TLDRIn this educational video, Teacher Izzy introduces literary criticism as the analysis and interpretation of literature, focusing on themes, style, and context. She outlines its purpose: to understand the text's essence, the author's relationship with the text, and to enhance reading enjoyment. The video maps out various approaches to criticism, including formalism, historical, intertextual, reader response, and more, emphasizing the importance of an open mind and diverse viewpoints. Izzy encourages viewers to explore different perspectives to enrich their literary insights.
Takeaways
- 📚 Literary criticism is the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of literature, focusing on aspects like theme, style, setting, and historical or political context.
- 🔍 It serves to understand the essence of a text, the relationship between the author and the text, and to enhance the enjoyment of reading.
- 🎨 There are two main functions of literary criticism: to analyze literature and to form general principles for examining literary works.
- 🧩 The literary criticism map includes four critical variables: author's world, author's life, text itself, and readers.
- 📜 Formalism and deconstruction focus primarily on the text, disregarding external factors like the author or historical context.
- 📚 Historical approach emphasizes understanding the author's beliefs, time, and history to interpret the work.
- 🌐 Intertextual approach compares the work with other literature to provide a broader perspective.
- 👀 Reader-response focuses on how the audience interprets the work, suggesting that meaning is created by the reader, not solely by the author or the work.
- 🌍 Memetic criticism assesses the work's alignment with the real world, considering its accuracy, correctness, and morality.
- 🔮 Archetypal criticism identifies universal symbols, images, characters, and motives that resonate across cultures and races.
- 🧠 Psychological criticism delves into the behavioral motivations of characters and may extend to the author's and reader's psychological states during the writing and reading process.
- 🏛 Marxist criticism examines the social class conflicts, particularly between the bourgeoisie and proletariat, as they influence the narrative.
- 👩🎓 Feminist criticism analyzes the portrayal of women's roles in society and challenges the literary construction of gender.
- 🌟 There is no single 'best' literary approach; a good approach is to keep an open mind and consider multiple viewpoints.
Q & A
What is literary criticism?
-Literary criticism is the comparison, analysis, interpretation, and/or evaluation of works of literature. It is an opinion supported by evidence relating to theme, style, setting, or historical and political context.
Why is literary criticism important?
-Literary criticism is important because it helps us understand the essence of a text, reveals the relationship between the author and the text, and enhances the enjoyment of reading literary works.
What are the two main functions of literary criticism?
-The two main functions of literary criticism are to analyze, study, and evaluate works of literature, and to form general principles for the examination of works of literature.
What are the four critical variables in literary criticism?
-The four critical variables in literary criticism are the author's world, author's life, the text itself, and the readers.
How does the historical approach in literary criticism differ from other approaches?
-The historical approach relies heavily on understanding the author and his world to interpret the work, emphasizing the importance of the author's beliefs, time, and history in making sense of the literary work.
What is the main focus of formalism and deconstruction in literary criticism?
-Formalism and deconstruction primarily deal with the text itself, focusing on the language, structure, and form of the work without considering external factors like the author or the real world.
How does reader-response criticism view the creation of meaning in a literary work?
-Reader-response criticism posits that the meaning of a literary work is created by the audience, emphasizing the reader's experience and interpretation rather than the author's intent or the work itself.
What does intertextual criticism involve?
-Intertextual criticism involves comparing the work in question to other literature to gain a broader understanding of its themes, influences, and context within the literary tradition.
What is the primary concern of feminist criticism in literary analysis?
-Feminist criticism is concerned with a woman's role in society as portrayed through texts, analyzing the depiction of women and critiquing the literary construction of gender roles.
How does Marxist criticism approach the analysis of literature?
-Marxist criticism analyzes the clash of opposing social classes in society, particularly the ruling class (bourgeoisie) and the working class (proletariat), and how these class dynamics shape the events and themes within the literary work.
What is the best literary approach to use, according to the video?
-There is no single 'best' literary approach; rather, varying approaches and keeping an open mind to different viewpoints can enrich one's insights into a literary work.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to Literary Criticism
This paragraph introduces the concept of literary criticism as the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of literature. It emphasizes that literary criticism is an opinion supported by evidence and relates to aspects like theme, style, setting, and historical or political context. The paragraph outlines the three main benefits of literary criticism: understanding the essence of a text, exploring the relationship between the author and the text, and enhancing the enjoyment of reading. It also highlights two primary functions of literary criticism: to analyze and evaluate literature and to establish general principles for literary examination. The critical variables in literary criticism are introduced, including the author's world, author's life, the text itself, and the readers. Different approaches to literary criticism are briefly described, such as formalism, deconstruction, historical, intertextual, reader response, memetic, archetypal, psychological, Marxist, and feminist criticism.
🌟 Choosing the Best Literary Approach
The second paragraph discusses the idea that there is no single 'best' approach to literary criticism, as each approach offers unique insights. It encourages an open-minded approach and the consideration of various viewpoints to enrich one's understanding of literature. The paragraph concludes with a call to action for viewers to subscribe for upcoming videos that will delve deeper into each literary approach. It ends with a quote from Socrates, emphasizing the importance of examining life and, by extension, literature.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Literary Criticism
💡Author's World
💡Text Itself
💡Formalism
💡Deconstruction
💡Historical Approach
💡Intertextual Approach
💡Reader Response
💡Memetic Criticism
💡Archetypal Criticism
💡Psychological Criticism
💡Marxist Criticism
💡Feminist Criticism
Highlights
Literary criticism is the comparison, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of works of literature.
Literary criticism helps us understand the essential aspects of a text, the relationship between the author and the text, and enhances our reading enjoyment.
Literary criticism serves to analyze, study, and evaluate works of literature, as well as to form general principles for their examination.
The text is central in literary criticism as all approaches must engage with it.
Formalism and deconstruction focus primarily on the text itself, disregarding external factors.
Constructionists also perform formal analysis but conclude that language has no inherent meaning.
Historical approach emphasizes understanding the author's world to interpret their work.
Intertextual approach compares literature to provide a broader understanding of the work.
Reader response focuses on how the audience views and creates meaning from the work.
Memetic criticism evaluates a work's accuracy, correctness, and morality in relation to the real world.
Archetypal criticism identifies universal symbols, images, characters, and motives that resonate across cultures.
Psychological criticism analyzes the behavioral patterns and potential neuroses of characters and possibly the author and reader.
Marxist criticism examines the conflict between social classes as depicted in literature.
Feminist criticism critiques the portrayal of women's roles and societal constructs in literature.
There is no single 'right' literary approach; a good approach is to keep an open mind and consider various viewpoints.
Socrates' quote emphasizes the importance of examining life, which can be applied to the examination of literature.
The video promises to delve into the details of various literary approaches in future installments.
Transcripts
why do we have to analyze a literary
piece
what is the best literary approach to
use
if you want to know more about literary
criticism
this video is for you
so
[Music]
hi everyone my name is teacher izzy and
i'm here to help you
in this learning journey so what is
literary criticism
literary criticism is the comparison
analysis
interpretation and or evaluation of
works of literature
it is essentially an opinion supported
by evidence
relating to theme style setting
or historical or political context
in other words literary criticism is the
method
used to interpret any given literary
piece
but why is there a need for us to
evaluate
a literary piece well
literary criticism helps us in three
ways
one it helps us understand what is
essential about the text
two it allows us to see the relationship
between the author
and the text and three it enhances the
enjoyment of our reading
of the literary text literary criticism
has two main functions first
to analyze study and evaluate works of
literature second
to form general principles for the
examination of works of
literature let's take a look at the
literary criticism map
there are four critical variables in
literary criticism
author's world author's life
text itself readers
the text is placed in the center because
all approaches must deal with the text
itself
formalism and deconstruction are placed
under it
because they deal primarily with the
text and not with any of the outside
considerations
such as author the real world audience
or other literature the constructionists
also subject text to careful formal
analysis
however they reach an opposite
conclusion
there is no meaning in language
a historical approach relies heavily on
the author
and his world in historical view it is
important to understand the author
and his world in order to understand his
intent
and to make sense of his work in this
view
the work is informed by the author's
beliefs time
and history and to fully understand the
work
we must understand the author and his
age
an intertextual approach is concerned
with comparing the work in question
to other literature to get a broader
picture
reader response is concerned with how
the work is viewed by the audience
in this approach the reader creates
meaning
not the author or the work memetic
criticism
seeks to see how well a work accords
with the real world
is it accurate correct or moral
archetypal criticism assumes that there
is a collection of symbols
images characters and motives that
evokes basically the same response
in all people which seem to bind all
people
regardless of culture and race worldwide
this can also be labeled as mythological
and symbolic criticism
their critics identify this as
archetypal patterns and discuss
how they function in the words
psychological
criticism attempts to explain the
behavioral underpinnings of the
characters
within the selection analyzing the
actions and thoughts committed
fall under any of the identifiable
neurosis
whether a psychological disorder is
evident among them
aside from the characters the author and
even the reader may be criticized
as why they exhibit certain behavior
during
the actual writing and reading
experience
marxist criticism concerns with analysis
of the clash of opposing social classes
in society
namely the ruling class or bourgeoisie
in the working class or floritaria
as it shaped the events that transpired
in the story
feminist criticism concerns with a
woman's role in the society as portrayed
through texts
it typically analyzes the plight of
women as depicted in the story
generally it criticizes the notion of
women
as a construct through literature
so what is the best literary approach to
use
keep in mind that there is no single
literary approach
that provides the right answer a good
literature is simply to vary
keeping an open mind and listening to
other points of view
can enrich your insights and ladies and
gentlemen
that's the very essence of literary
criticism
remember the words of socrates the life
which is
examined is not worth living
there you have it the literary court
resistance and an overview to the
different literary approaches
in my succeeding videos i'll be
discussing about
the literary approaches in details
i hope you learned something from our
discussion today i hope to see you again
in our next video lesson
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everyone
thanks for watching
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