Literary Approaches - Marxism Plus More

Question 1

Is a materialist philosophy which tried to interpret the world based on the concrete, natural world around us and yhe society we live in

It is opposed to idealist philosophy which conceptualized a spiritual world elsewhere that influences and controls the material world

Answer 1

Marxism

Question 2

Has its origins in the intellectual and political feminists movement. It advocates a critique of male dominated language and performs “resitant” reading of literary texts or histories

Based on the premise that social systems are patriarchal - organized to privilege men - it seeks to trace how such power relations in society are reflected, supported, or questions by literary texts and expression

Answer 2

Feminism

Question 3

Is “the practice of moralizing, especially showing a tendency to make judgements about others morality”

Answer 3

Moralism

Question 4

In a branch of philosophy called ______, the definitions of right conduct and the good life are constantly being sought

Answer 4

Moral philosophy

Question 5

A theory grew in importance during the 1960s, the reader response theory holds that the readers reaction to any given text is more important than the actual content. This was largely driven by a post structuralist emphasis on the readers role as being more actively constructing texts instead of just being passive consumers

Answer 5

Reader response