1. MR. CHUNG LANGUAGE ARTS VALENCIA H.S.
LITERARY CRITICISM
MR. CHUNG
LANGUAGE ARTS
VALENCIA H.S.

2. TKAM Literary Criticism TKAM Objective Final Preview
Agenda
TKAM Articles
TKAM Literary Criticism
TKAM Objective Final Preview

3. Begin understanding of literary criticism
Objective
Begin understanding of literary criticism
Identify & apply literary theories to TKAM
Prepare for analysis & evaluation of TKAM

4. Evaluate the aesthetic qualities of style,
Standards
Literary Criticism 3.11
Evaluate the aesthetic qualities of style,
including the impact of diction and figurative language on tone, mood, and theme,
using the terminology of literary criticism.
(Aesthetic approach)

5. Standards
Literary Criticism 3.12
Analyze the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period. (Historical approach)

6. Standards
Literary Response and Analysis 3.5c.
Evaluate the philosophical, political, religious, ethical, and social influences of the historical period that shaped the characters, plots, and settings.

7. KWL:
WHAT I THINK I KNOW…
WHAT I WANT TO KNOW…
Literary Criticism

8. TOPIC/CONCEPT/FACT/SKILL
Literary Criticism

9. [Critical Encounters, Deborah Appleman]
DEFINITION
An informed, written analysis & evaluation of a work of literature
Based on a “literary theory” [
[Critical Encounters, Deborah Appleman]

10. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS
Literary Theories--a means to understand the various ways people read & connect with texts.
“lenses” through which we can see texts
Usually leads to a whole new perspective

11. EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Archetypal Criticism
Symbols, motifs, myths, characters, situations

12. EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Formalism [New Criticism, Structuralism]
The work itself the focus
No need for context
Aesthetics
Language, interactions of words, figures of speech, & symbols

13. EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Historical Criticism
The work a reflection of the author’s (or characters’) life & times
Necessary to know about the author & the political, economical, & sociological context
Can it be universal or contextual?

14. EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Reader-Response Criticism
Reader’s role in the development of interpretation
Reader creates meaning
Subjectivity?

15. EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Mimetic
Real world reality?
Morality, norms, values
Intertextual
Comparing the work with other literature
Breadth

16. POLITICAL EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Feminist Criticism
Impact of gender on writing & reading
Critique of patriarchal society: cultural & economic “disabilities”

17. POLITICAL EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Marxist Criticism
Relationships between the socio-economic classes
Economic & cultural theories of Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Focus: power & money in lit

18. EXAMPLES [Most Common, Abstract]
Deconstruction
Text is focus, but no inherent meaning

19. EXAMPLES [Most Common]
Psychological & Psychoanalytic Criticism
Psychological motivations of the characters [or of the author]
Freud, Jung

20. OVERVIEW Historical, Biographical Feminist, Marxist, etc.
AUTHOR’S WORLD
LITERARY CRITICISM
Historical, Biographical
Feminist, Marxist, etc.
AUTHOR’S LIFE
Psychological
Mimetic
BEYOND THE WORLD
REAL WORLD
LITERARY WORK
OTHER LITERATURE
Intertextual
Formalist [Structuralism], Deconstruction
Archetypal
AUDIENCE
Reader-Response

21. VARIATIONS HISTORICAL; TLA… Historian Sociologist Geographer MAD DOG
Alabama
HISTORICAL;
TLA…
Historian
Sociologist
Geographer
Feminine Voice; Power Structure
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
MAD DOG
Connector
BEYOND THE WORLD
2007
TKAM
OTHER LITERATURE
TKAM FILM
A Separate Peace;
Of Mice and Men
AESTHETIC;
TLA Linguist
Hero; Scapegoat
PIB/H
CONNECTIONS

22. VARIATIONS ATTICUS FINCH & THE MAD DOG HOLLYWOOD & RACE
LEE’S TRAGIC VISION
SECRET COURTS OF MEN’S HEARTS
FEMALE VOICE…NARRATIVE STRATS

23. informed, written analysis & evaluation of a work of literature
REVIEW
informed, written analysis & evaluation of a work of literature
literary theory as a lens

24. 3-5 pages, word-processed MLA style Due: FRIDAY, Nov. 9
APPLICATION/SUMMARY
TAKE HOME ESSAY
3-5 pages, word-processed
MLA style
Due: FRIDAY, Nov. 9

25. APPLICATION/SUMMARY
TOPIC [open]
Approach…

26. TOPICS: APPLICATION SYMBOLISM ARCHETYPES PSYCHOLOGICAL
ATTICUS FINCH & THE MAD DOG
TOPICS:
SYMBOLISM
ARCHETYPES
PSYCHOLOGICAL

27. APPLICATION TOPICS COMPARE/CONTRAST INTERTEXTUAL MIMETIC
HOLLYWOOD & RACE
TOPICS
COMPARE/CONTRAST
INTERTEXTUAL
A SEPARATE PEACE
SOUTHERN AUTHORS SHORT STORIES
MIMETIC

28. TOPICS APPLICATION HISTORICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AESTHETICAL
LEE’S TRAGIC VISION
TOPICS
HISTORICAL
PSYCHOLOGICAL
AESTHETICAL

29. TOPICS APPLICATION POWER STRUCTURE [MARXIST] MORES [MORALS], VALUES
SECRET COURTS OF MEN’S HEARTS
TOPICS
POWER STRUCTURE [MARXIST]
MORES [MORALS], VALUES
SOCIAL CODES

30. TOPICS APPLICATION AESTHETICAL APPROACH
FEMALE VOICE…NARRATIVE STRATS
TOPICS
AESTHETICAL APPROACH
INTERTEXTUAL: COMPARE/CONTRAST FILM TO TEXT
FEMINIST

31. WORKS CITED
Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Interpretations: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publisher, 1999.

32. WORKS CITED
Appleman, Deborah. Critical Encounters in High School English. New York: Teachers College Press, 2000.
WordNet: A Lexical Database for the English Language Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University. 01 Nov
Burris, Skylar. Literary Criticism: An Overview of Approaches University of Texas at Brownsville. 01 Nov