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Reader-Response Critical Approach |
focuses on the reader and the reading process--not on the text itself; rejection of the idea that there is a fixed meaning in a work of literature; led to reading circles, journal writing, and peer writing exercises |
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Shared Inquiry Approach |
involves a leader and a group; the participants are guided in their interpretation of the writing ; uses the text, one's own experience, and reasoning to reach interpretation; debate is characteristic of this method |
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Historical criticism |
uses history to understand a literary work more clearly; the social and intellectual currents of the time |
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Textual criticism |
uses recension (selection of most trustworthy evidence to base a text) and emendation (effort to eliminate all errors) |
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Feminist criticism |
seeks to correct or to supplement what is regarded as a predominantly male-dominated critical perspective with a female conscious |
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Biographical criticism |
uses knowledge of the author's life experiences to gain a better understand of the writer's work |
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Cultural criticism |
focuses on the historical, social, an economic contexts of a work |
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Formal criticism |
pays particular attention to formal elements of the work such as language, structure, and tone |
