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9 Schools of Literary Criticism (Authorial Literary Criticism: Questions…
9 Schools of Literary Criticism
Psychoanalytical Literary Criticism: Analyzes the psychological roots, motives and subconscious desires of characters.
Authorial Literary Criticism:
Questions the role of the author's life, and its relationship to the work.
Textbook Question: How can in-text clues reveal something about the unknown author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
Based on the Magic Tree House series, would you say Mary Pope Osborne actually planned to have 54 books in the collection?
Cultural Literary Criticism: Analyzes the role culture plays in a text.
Textbook Question: Does the culture of southern Appalachia play a role in shaping the entire tone of the text?
Structural Literary Criticism: Assumes all literature depends on structures (themes, characters, plot, foreshadowing, etc.) for the sake of the story's analysis.
Deconstructive Literary Criticism: Assumes that these things do not exist. Aims to prove that every story is unique.
Gender Literary Criticism: Analyzes the roles gender plays in the story.
Would Clueless be different if it was a "prissy" guy instead of a girl?
Marxist Literary Criticism:
Analyzes the role class status or structure plays in the story.
Would Clueless have the same effect if Cher was not high class?
Would Forrest Gump have the same effect if his backstory did not come from a lower class society?
Historical Literary Criticism: Questions the role of the history surrounding a work-both in the time it was written, and the time it was set.
Textbook Question: How has the past influenced Shrek the musical?
Reader-Response Literary Criticism: Assumes that every reader is different and thus interprets a story uniquely.
