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AP Literary CriticismIt’s more fun than it sounds

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There are 11 main methods of literary criticism.

An Overview

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Focuses on when the text was created and the situation in which it is being read.

In addition to the text’s language, critics try to discover outside influences (political, social, and economic) that may affect the meaning of the text.

1. New Historicism

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Focuses on a close reading of a text, examining elements such as structure, setting, symbols, and irony.

(THIS IS WHAT WE MOST OFTEN DO)

2. New Criticism

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Focuses on the struggle for power and its effect on social class.

Uses characters, plotlines, and themes to illustrate struggles for power.

3. Marxism

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Focuses on the role of women.

4. Feminism

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Refers to the motivations an author had in a test.

There is much debate over whether or not this should matter to interpreting a text.

5. Authorial Intention

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Maintains the existence preceded essence, and everyone is responsible for his or her own actions.

6. Existentialism

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Form of criticism focusing on patterns that exist across cultures and time periods.

7. Archetypal Criticism

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Analyzes literature in terms of mental processes.

8. Psychological Criticism

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Focuses on the transaction that takes place between the reader and the text; meaning is negotiated, thus texts are open to multiple interpretations

(ALSO DONE FREQUENTLY IN THIS CLASS)

9.Reader-response criticsm

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Analyzes texts from the perspective that all texts are the result of an elaborate system of signs.

10. Structuralism

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Basing interpretations on either the expressed or implied intentions of a writer. Many critics find this method inappropriate.

(Some say the text is a living, breathing entity)

11. Intentional fallacy

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Ambition in a range of characters from Georgiana Reed to Blanche Ingram

Class, especially in the way that Blanche and her friends treat Jane

The education and individual opportunities offered to women relevant to all the women characters in the book

The social role of money in offering liberty to women such as Jane and the Rivers sisters from taking uncongenial jobs.

New Historicist Criticism of Jane Eyre

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You try this one!

New Criticism: Jane Eyre

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Emphasizing the corruption, even despotism of the upper classes, Jane's narrative makes her audience aware that the middle classes were becoming the repositories of both moral and intellectual superiority.

Marxism: Jane Eyre

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You Try this one!!

Feminism

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Why did Bronte write the book?

Comment on the Church structure. Comment on Victorian marriage. ________________________________

Authorial Intention: Jane Eyre

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Isolation in a hostile world Jane is the existential heroine as she grows

up isolated from her cousins and aunt, who are all hostile toward her, belittling her constantly.

Freedom of choice and responsibility for one's actions

After learning that Mr. Rochester is not free to marry her, Jane chooses to leave Thornfield despite being penniless.

Existentialism: Jane Eyre

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The byronic hero The mysterious element of the supernatural _________________________

Archetypal Criticism

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What was Jane Eyre thinking/feeling and how does effect the outcome/meaning of the text?

Psychological: Jane Eyre

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You give this one a try! (Everyone will have a different answer!)

Reader-Response: Jane Eyre

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Foreshadowing

Structuralism: Jane Eyre

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What did Emily Bronte mean with this metaphor of the tree that was struck by lightening?

Intentional fallacy: Jane Eyre


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