Literary Analysis Types

Reader-Response Approach
- gain a better understanding of the story through writing and speaking.
- evaluate the decision-making skillsof the characters
- reflect on how the story relates to them.
- draw on their own experiences and reading to claify meaning
- express thoughts in a variety of different modes.

Mythological & Archetypal Criticism
- is a criticism that is concerned with the motives that underlie human behavior.
- it tends to be speculative and philosophical.
- seeks to reveal the mind and character of a person
- myth critic is interested in prehistory and the biographies of the gods.

Source Study
- gather information from a previous author rhat you are inspired by.
- study the author's sources and their finish work with their biograpical background.
- collaborate your ideas with the sources you have studied.
- make your own piece of work

Aristotelian Criticism
- set the standard for literary critcism as a whole, without poetics, the basic idea of reading a work and seeing it from a different perspective
- set the basic ideas of drama as a whole: action, diction, and other parts of any drama or play character

Cultural Studies
- trancends the confines of a particular discipline such as literary criticism or history
- is politically engaged.
- denies the separation of "high" and "low" or lite and popular culture
- analyzes not only the cultural work hat is produced but also the means of production

Genre Literary Criticism
- is the category of a piece of literature fits, such as comdey, tragedy, romance, etc.
- to learn as much about a piece as possible before even reading it.
- critic will know basic themes and subject matter, probable plot sequences.
- gives clues on what to look for in a piece of literature. such as symbols, lanuage, and imagery.

Helpful Links and References

www.bartleby.com
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www.luminarium.org
www.olemiss.edu/dept/english/ms-writers/dir/
www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm