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    This document provides an overview of literary criticism. It discusses the purpose of literary criticism as helping to resolve questions about a literary work's meaning, decide between conflicting interpretations, and form judgments to promote high standards in literature. It outlines how critics analyze reasons for responses, discover why certain feelings are elicited, and draw connections between works and life experiences. The document also lists some classical theories of criticism and different vistas or approaches critics can take, including those dependent on the author, text, or reader. It provides more detail on author dependent interpretations, specifically historical, biographical, and histo-biographical approaches.

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    This document provides an overview of literary criticism. It discusses the purpose of literary criticism as helping to resolve questions about a literary work's meaning, decide between conflicting interpretations, and form judgments to promote high standards in literature. It outlines how critics analyze reasons for responses, discover why certain feelings are elicited, and draw connections between works and life experiences. The document also lists some classical theories of criticism and different vistas or approaches critics can take, including those dependent on the author, text, or reader. It provides more detail on author dependent interpretations, specifically historical, biographical, and histo-biographical approaches.

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    Literary Criticism

    A critical explanation of the meaning of a literary work

    Purpose:
    - To help us resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading
    - To help us decide which is better of two conflicting readings
    - To enables us to form judgments about literature
    - critique, analysis, interpretation, evaluation, and appreciation
    - To interpret the meanin gof a literary work and evaluate its quality
    - To promote high standards in literature and encourage a general appreciation of
    literature

    How do you critic a literary piece?

    Critic Duties
    - To analyze the reasons for our responses
    - To discover why we feel the way we do
    - to search for relationships between the works we read
    - to draw connections between our reading and our life experiences

    Classical Theories
    MIMETIC - experiences of the author, relate
    EXPRESSIVE - expression of the person
    DIDACTIC -

    Literary Vistas
    - Author Dependent Intepretation
    - Historical, Biographical, Histo-Bio, Moral-Philosophical
    - Text Dependent Interpretation
    - Formalism, Structuralism, Deconstruction
    - Reade Dependent Interpretation
    - Reader-Response, Feminist, Queer, Marxism

    Literary Paradigm

    Author Dependent Interpretation


    Historical Approach
    - explores the social, political, cultural, and economic context of work
    Biographical Approach
    - Extra-textual knowledge of the author's life
    Histo-Bio
    - text is a reflection of the author's time and life

    Author Depende
    - carefully examines incidents in the lives of authors
    - uses with discretion and insight or employed as a superficial shortcut to
    understanding the literary work on its own terms
    - links between author's private lives and their text that is great interest
    - recognition of otherness
    - connections to other modes of criticism

    Histo-Bio

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