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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Content: Practitioners of cultural criticism view a text in relation to the dominant or competing ideologies (belief systems) of the time and place in which the text was written. Works are therefore considered in light of their historical and cultural contexts. For example, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness may be read in terms of practices of European imperialists, race relations in Africa, or the economic history of ivory and other raw products in the continent. READ: Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge: Love & Character Archetypes
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.