MODULE 3: THE REACTION PAPER REVIEW AND CRITIQUE Flashcards
It allows the writer to offer personal reactions, often involving emotional responses or connections to their own experiences.
Reaction Paper
[PART OF REACTION PAPER]
It introduces the material being responded to and presents the thesis or main opinion.
Introduction
[PART OF REACTION PAPER]
This section discusses how the writer personally responds to the material, including emotional and intellectual reactions.
Body
[PART OF REACTION PAPER]
It reinforces the main reaction and offers a final reflection on the topic.
Conclusion
assesses the strengths, weaknesses, and overall quality of the work.
Review
It provides an objective analysis of a piece of writing, artwork, or theory, often offering suggestions for improvement.
Critique
It provides a detailed breakdown of the work, pointing out both positive and negative aspects.
Critical Evaluation
Offers an concise overview of the content without getting too detailed.
Summary
Critically assesses different aspects (e.g., structure, themes, writing style, or technical aspects).
Evaluation
Briefly introduces the work being reviewed and its context, and presents the overall opinion or thesis of the review.
Introduction
This approach examines the structure and features of the text, such as imagery, symbolism, and style, without considering external influences.
Formalism
This approach analyzes literature through the lens of class conflict, economic systems, and the influence of capitalism on culture and society.
Marxist Criticism
This approach delves into the psychological motives of characters and the author, focusing on subconscious drives, repressed desires, and internal conflicts.
Psychoanalytic Criticism
This approach explores how literature represents or misrepresents women, power relations between genders, and critiques patriarchal structures.
Feminist Criticism
This approach looks at how a text reflects, challenges, or engages with the historical moment in which it was produced.
Historical Criticism
This approach asserts that meaning is constructed in the interaction between the reader and the text, emphasizing personal and subjective experiences.
Critical Race Theory
This approach questions fixed meanings and explores how language and structures are fluid, open to multiple interpretations, and shaped by power dynamics.
Post-Structuralism
This approach emphasizes fragmentation, paradox, and skepticism of grand narratives, focusing on diverse, often contradictory meanings.
Postmodernism
This approach analyzes literature from formerly colonized regions, exploring themes of identity, power, resistance, and the impact of colonialism.
Postcolonial Criticism.
This approach looks at how literature reflects environmental issues, including human interactions with the natural world and ecological crises.
Ecocriticism
This approach identifies common mythic elements and archetypes in literature, exploring how they resonate with shared human experiences.
Mythological Criticism
This approach seeks to reveal contradictions and ambiguities in a text, arguing that meaning is not fixed and is subject to endless reinterpretation.
Deconstruction
This approach examines texts in relation to the cultural and historical context of their time, integrating insights from various other critical theories.
New Historicism
This approach questions traditional categories of gender and sexuality, analyzing how literature represents and often disrupts norms related to sexual identity.
Queer Theory
