1. Literary Criticism

2. Little Red Riding Hood The Wolf evil, male dominance RRH subconscious,
threatening aspect of society

3. Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood innocence,
helpless female,
faith and trust,
victim in society

4. Little Red Riding Hood The Story triumph of good over evil,
Saving the damsel in distress,
maturity of girl into awareness of reality,
liberation of a socially marginalized group

5. Literary Criticism Analyzes What literature is What it does
What it is worth

6. Literary Critics Look at Effect upon reader and society Evaluate
Structure
Language
Content
Characters
Themes
Tone
Effect upon reader and society
Evaluate
Significance of work
Its moral worth
Its relationship to reality

7. The House of the Spirits
One of the 1st women author to be recognized in male-dominated Latin American literary scene
(Feminist Criticism)
Historical Quality to the novel
(Historical Criticism)
Powerful characters and relationships
(Psychological Criticism)
Socialism/Marxism government and ideals
(Marxism Criticism)

8. Feminist Criticism Feminism as a movement
Related to psychology as it explores differences between
Male language and creativity
Female language and creativity
Importance of unique female perspective of women writing about women
Reveal, encourage and emphasize female writers significant within themselves
Female writers give an authentic, experienced voice to their female characters

9. Historical Criticism
Looks at forces in history that are present and influence a literary work
Focus and interprets literature
Social
Economic
Political
Author’s ancestry, environment and time influence
Nature
Style
Content
Quality of work

10. Psychological Criticism
Looks at symbols and elements of plot that represent the human unconsciousness
Reflective of Myths
Archetype

11. Jungian psychology The Anima The Animus The Shadow The Spirit
Represents love and desire
Mother, sister, daughter, beloved, goddess, earth mother, tempting whore, crone
The Animus
Represents reason
Father, brother, a god, protector, lover, and destroying angel
The Shadow
Represents the side that a person rejects
Seen as negative, even evil
The Spirit
Symbolized by wise old man or woman

12. Marxist Criticism based on socialist theories
Reflections of the social institutions
Literature has a specific function and is based on the background and ideology of the author
Terry Eagleton, English literary critic and cultural theorist:
how novels get published and whether they mention the working class.
forms, styles and meanings as the product of a particular social history.
simplest goals
an assessment of the political 'tendency' of a literary work,
determining whether its social content or its literary form is 'progressive'.
analyzing the class constructs demonstrated in the literature.