Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]
Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 35 views

    Eapp Q1 Las 5

    Uploaded by

    alwayswbelle
    This document provides information about approaches to literary criticism that can be used when expressing views in writing. It defines seven approaches: formalist criticism, gender criticism, historical criticism, reader-response criticism, media criticism, Marxist criticism, and structuralism. For each approach, it provides a brief definition of the main focuses and goals. It then provides activities for students to practice using appropriate language when stating their views on an issue in writing, and to get feedback from others on how effectively they expressed their views.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Eapp Q1 Las 5

    Uploaded by

    alwayswbelle
    35 views2 pages
    This document provides information about approaches to literary criticism that can be used when expressing views in writing. It defines seven approaches: formalist criticism, gender criticism, historical criticism, reader-response criticism, media criticism, Marxist criticism, and structuralism. For each approach, it provides a brief definition of the main focuses and goals. It then provides activities for students to practice using appropriate language when stating their views on an issue in writing, and to get feedback from others on how effectively they expressed their views.

    Original Description:

    Eapp q1 las 5

    Original Title

    EAPP-Q1-LAS-5

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    This document provides information about approaches to literary criticism that can be used when expressing views in writing. It defines seven approaches: formalist criticism, gender criticism, historical criticism, reader-response criticism, media criticism, Marxist criticism, and structuralism. For each approach, it provides a brief definition of the main focuses and goals. It then provides activities for students to practice using appropriate language when stating their views on an issue in writing, and to get feedback from others on how effectively they expressed their views.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    35 views2 pages

    Eapp Q1 Las 5

    Uploaded by

    alwayswbelle
    This document provides information about approaches to literary criticism that can be used when expressing views in writing. It defines seven approaches: formalist criticism, gender criticism, historical criticism, reader-response criticism, media criticism, Marxist criticism, and structuralism. For each approach, it provides a brief definition of the main focuses and goals. It then provides activities for students to practice using appropriate language when stating their views on an issue in writing, and to get feedback from others on how effectively they expressed their views.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 2

    SAGAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL – SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

    ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES


    LAS 5

    NAME: ____________________________________________GRADE&SECTION: __________________

    TITLE: APPROACHES IN LITERARY CRITICISM

    I. MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING COMPETENCY:


    Uses appropriate critical writing a critique such as formalism, feminism, etc.
    II. CONCEPTS:
    When you express your views, it is also important to use appropriate language for a specific
    discipline. There are terms that you should prefer to put in your writing depending on the field or
    context you are in. For example, if you are to convince people who are experts in the field of Science
    and Mathematics, you need to use their language. Here are examples of terms that you can use in the
    following disciplines.

    Science Mathematics General Terms


    Experiments Equation Test

    Lab equipment Statistical tool Materials

    Invention Solution Action


    Laboratory test Result Pregnancy Test
    Hormones and Genes Equivalent Values Family

    You should be formal and use technical terms that are familiar to them. However, if your audience
    is the general public, you also need to use the language they know. Do not use those that are not
    common to them. Avoid jargons or technical words and slang or invented words. You can be informal
    when necessary. However, you must never forget to be POLITE to avoid having future problems.
    Learning appropriate language and manner is not enough in expressing your views. There are
    critical approaches that you can use to make it more convincing and appropriate. Read about the
    critical approaches. You can highlight some important ideas. You can use these in expressing your
    views.
    1. FORMALIST CRITICISM
    - This approach regards literature as “a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be
    examined on its own terms.” All the elements necessary for understanding the work are
    contained within the work itself. Of particular interest to the formalist critic are the
    elements of form—style, structure, tone, imagery, etc.— that are found within the text. A
    primary goal for formalist critics is to determine how such elements work together with the
    text’s content to shape its effects upon readers.
    2. GENDER CRITICISM
    - This approach “examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of
    literary works.” Originally an offshoot of feminist movements, gender criticism today
    includes a number of approaches, including the so-called “masculinist” approach recently
    advocated by poet Robert Bly. The bulk of gender criticism, however, is feminist and takes
    as a central precept that the patriarchal attitudes that have dominated western thought have
    resulted, consciously or unconsciously, in literature “full of unexamined ‘male-produced’
    assumptions.” Feminist criticism attempts to correct this imbalance by analyzing and
    combatting such attitudes—by questioning, for example, why none of the characters in
    Shakespeare’s play Othello ever challenge the right of a husband to murder a wife accused
    of adultery. Other goals of feminist critics include “analyzing how sexual identity
    influences the reader of a text” and “examining how the images of men and women in
    imaginative literature reflect or reject the social forces that have historically kept the sexes
    from achieving total equality.”
    3. HISTORICAL CRITICISM
    - This approach “seeks to understand a literary work by investigating the social, cultural,
    and intellectual context that produced it—a context that necessarily includes the artist’s
    biography and milieu.” A key goal for historical critics is to understand the effect of a
    literary work upon its original readers.
    4. READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
    - This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon
    a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader. It
    attempts “to describe what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting a text” and
    reflects that reading, like writing, is a creative process.
    5. MEDIA CRITICISM
    - It is the act of closely examining and judging the media. When we examine the media
    and various media stories, we often find instances of media bias. Media bias is the
    perception that the media is reporting the news in a partial or prejudiced manner. Media
    bias occurs when the media seems to push a specific viewpoint, rather than reporting the
    news objectively. Keep in mind that media bias also occurs when the media seems to ignore
    an important aspect of the story. This is the case in the news story about the puppies.
    6. MARXIST CRITICISM
    - It focuses on the economic and political elements of art, often emphasizing the ideological
    content of literature; because Marxist criticism often argues that all art is political, either
    challenging or endorsing (by silence) the status quo, it is frequently evaluative and
    judgmental, a tendency that “can lead to reductive judgment, as when Soviet critics rated
    Jack London better than William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, and Henry
    James, because he illustrated the principles of class struggle more clearly.” Nonetheless,
    Marxist criticism “can illuminate political and economic dimensions of literature other
    approaches overlook.”
    7. STRUCTURALISM
    - It focused on how human behavior is determined by social, cultural and psychological
    structures. It tended to offer a single unified approach to human life that would embrace all
    disciplines. The essence of structuralism is the belief that “things cannot be understood in
    isolation, they have to be seen in the context of larger structures which contain them. For
    example, the structuralist analysis of Donne’s poem, Good Morrow, demands more focus
    on the relevant genre, the concept of courtly love, rather than on the close reading of the
    formal elements of the text.

    III. ACTIVITIES
    A. SAY IT PROPERLY
    Since you have learned that it is important to use appropriate language, you can already
    express your ideas appropriately. Let us try to use appropriate language and manner in raising
    our contrary views about the issue on “Teenage Pregnancy.”

    Target Audience: Students aged 13-19


    Purpose: State your views about the issue
    Language: Formal and Simple so that the target audience can easily understand it

    Write your stand about the issue and consider the given information. Use terms that are
    familiar to students like you

    B. WHAT OTHERS SAY


    Look for two or more persons who are also students or it can be an adult. Ask them to read
    what you have written by sending it to them through personal message or email. Ask them
    what they think of your written output. Listen to their comments and suggestions. You can also
    write them down so that you can remember their responses when you answer the reflection
    questions below. Let’s reflect on this activity.

    1. Did they like how you express your views? Did they find it rude or not? Why?
    2. What were their comments? How do you feel about it?
    REFLECTION/WHAT I LEARNED.
    Lesson: __________________________________________________________________________
    What I want to say about the lesson: ________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________________________
    What I found out: __________________________________________________________________
    ________________________________________________________________________________________

    REFERENCES:
    CO_Q1_SHS English for Academic and Professional Purposes _ Module 3

    You might also like