Title: Various Types of Literary Analysis | SchoolWorkHelper
Headings: Various Types of Literary Analysis
Various Types of Literary Analysis
Archetypal Criticism
Cultural Criticism
Feminist Criticism
Marxist Criticism
New Criticism
New Historicism
Post-structuralism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism
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Feminist Criticism
Feminist Criticism is literary criticism based on feminist theories. It considers texts with the knowledge that societies treat men and women inequitably. Feminist criticism will analyze texts in light of patriarchal (male-dominated) cultural institutions, phallocentric (male-centered) language, masculine and feminine stereotypes, and the unequal treatment of male and female writers. Feminist criticism developed primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, although it is evident in earlier works as well, for example in the works of Virginia Woolf and Mary Wollstonecraft. More recent feminist and gender studies investigate social constructions related to gender as they appear in the literature. Marxist Criticism
Based on the writings of Karl Marx (1818-1883) this school of thought contends that history and culture is largely a struggle between economic classes, and literature is often a reflection of the attitudes and interests of the dominant class. An often-repeated statement from Marx expresses a basic idea specific to this form of criticism. “ It’s not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness”. New Criticism
New Criticism is a movement in literary criticism that proposes close reading and textual analysis of the text itself. It is referred to as “New” because it operates contrary to the previously favored focus on the author’s biography, the historical context, and the perceived parallels between these and the text.