OUTLINE ENGLISH 116 LITERARY CRITICISM 1. Definition of Literary Criticism 2. The Pre-critical Aprroach 3.

The Traditional Approach Historical-Biographycal Approach Assignment: Huck Finn Noli Me Tangere a. The text, genre,a nd plot b. Summary c. Historical-Biographical Condiderations Moral-Philosophical Approach Three Generations a. The text b. Summary c. Moral-Philosophical Considerations Assignment: Hamlet The Sound of Silence Californication Young Goodman Brown 4. The Formalistic Approaches Reading a Poem: The Closse Reader Assignment: Montage A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal Background of Formalistic Theory The New Criticism Concepts, Terms, Devices The Dark and the Plagus: The Masque of Red Death Personification: The Riffles of the Regiment Journey as Repetitive Form in Huck Finn Paradox in the Sound of Silence Dialectic As Form: Hamlet Limitations 5. The Psychological Approach Aims and Principles a. Abuses anf Misunderstanding b. Freud's Theories The Oedipus Complex in Hamlet Rebellion against the Father i Huck Finn Id Versus Superego in Young Goodman Brown Love and Death in the Sick Rose Sexual Imagery in "To His Coy Mistress" Limitations Assignment: Californication The Summer Solstice 6. Mythological and Archetypal Approaches Definitions and Misconceptions Excample and Archetypes Images Motifs or Patterns Archetypes and Genre The Sacrificial Hero in Hamlet Time and Imoortality in "To His Coy Mistress" Jungian Psychology and Its Archetypal insights Young Good man Brown: failure of Individuation

The American Dream in Huck Finn Limitations Assignments: 7. feminist Aprroach Feminism and Feminist Criticism Historical Overview and Major Themes Four Significant Current Practices Gender Studies Marxist Feminism Psychoanalytic Feminism Minority Feminist Criticism Hamlet and Women Men, Women, and the Loss of Faith in Young Goodman Brown GS: Dona Jeronima MF: Tess of the D'Urbervilles P-A-F: The English Patient To His Coy Mistress 8. Other Approaches Aristotelian Criticism Genre Criticism The History Of Ideas Linguistic nd Literature Stylistic Rhetorical Approach Reader-Response Criticism The Marxist Approach References: A Handdbook of Critical Approaches to Literature 3rd ed. Geurin, Wilfred L., et al Oxford University Press, 1992 Feminist Readings of Philippines Fiction: Critique and Anthology. UP Press 1994. Ventura, Sylvia