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Title: Twentieth Century Literature


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Twentieth Century Literature
  • Major Critical Approaches

2
Questions to consider
  • What is literature?
  • What do we get out of literature?

3
Critical Theory Definition
  • Critical theory is what we bring to literature,
    and, in turn, what we get out of it.
  • Two major types
  • Historical/Biographical
  • Expressive Realism

4
Historicism
  • Basically, we have been doing this all year
  • Considers the literary work in the facts of the
    historical period.

5
New Historicism
  • Much the same as Historicism with one difference
  • New Historicism finds meaning by looking at a
    text within the framework of the prevailing ideas
    and assumptions of its historical era.

6
Psychoanalytic
  • Freudian
  • Looks at a text as the subconscious expressions
    of the author.

7
Feminist
  • Looks at literature by exposing how a work
    reflects masculine ideology.
  • They have noticed that women and men tend to
    communicate differently men directed towards
    solutions, women towards connecting.

8
Marxist
  • Literature reflects a class struggle and
    materialism
  • Questions to ask
  • What role does class play in the work what is
    the author's analysis of class relations?
  • How do characters overcome oppression?
  • In what ways does the work serve as propaganda
    for the status quo or does it try to undermine
    it?
  • What does the work say about oppression or are
    social conflicts ignored or blamed elsewhere?
  • Does the work propose some form of utopian vision
    as a solution to the problems encountered in the
    work?

9
Desirees Baby
  • What lens(es) can we look at this story though?
  • Historianism?
  • New Historianism?
  • Psychoanalytic?
  • Feminist?
  • Marxist?
  • quadroon Person descended from one black
    grandparent and three white grandparents.
  • Look for foreshadowing
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