APPROACHES TO
LITERATURES
Reader-Response Formalist Criticism: Psychological Criticism: Biological Approach: New Historicism Mythological/Archetyp
form of a literary work, Sociological Criticism:
Criticism: lies with how revelation of author's take an author's life into Approach: every literary al: model or pattern
its elements, and how mind and personality social contexts must be
the reader responds to account when sudying a work is a product of its from which all other
they work to create based on Sigmund
considered in analyzing
it text time and world things of similar nature
meaning Freud a text
are made
understand a writer's
pre-occupation by + universalistic
studying the way they approach, why certain
Elektra Complex: reflect ideas & literature may survive
manifested in female apply their own life
experiences in their attitudes, compare the the test of time
child language in
works
contemporary
documents