Critical Approaches to Writing a Critique Flashcards
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is a genre of academic writing.
critique paper
briefly and critically summarizes and evaluates a work or concept.
critique paper
used to carefully analyze a variety of works.
critique paper
novels, exhibits, films, shows, images, poetry;
creative works
monographs, journal articles, systematic reviews, theories;
researches
news reports, feature articles.
media
to judge or to evaluate someone or something
criticize
the paper or essay
– the product of criticizing
critique
the person doing the criticism
critic
sometimes called “lenses”, are the different perspectives we can consider in analyzing or interpreting a text.
critical approaches
A way to write a critique.
critical approaches
This approach regards literature as “a unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms.”
formalist criticism
A primary goal for formalist critics is to determine —- work together with the text’s content to shape its effects upon readers.
how elements of form (style, structure, tone, imagery, etc.)
This approach “seeks to understand a literary work by investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it.
historical criticism
A key goal for historical critics is to
understand the effect of a literary work upon its original readers.
This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader.
READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM
It attempts “to —— what happens in the reader’s mind while interpreting a text” and reflects that reading, like writing, is a creative process.
describe
the act of closely examining and judging the media.
media criticism
This approach “examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works.
gender criticism
gender criticism Includes a number of approaches, including the so-called
masculinist” approach and feminism
It focuses on the economic and political elements of art, often emphasizing the ideological content of literature.
marxist criticism
To study literature from the moral/intellectual perspective is therefore to determine whether a work conveys a lesson or message and whether it can help readers lead better lives and improve their understanding of the world.
moralist criticism
