Literary Study For Dummies
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Literary Study For Dummies
A Modified Version of R. L. McGuire's Passionate Attention: an introduction to
literary study. Literature and criticism Authors basic assumption of a book- the
reading and the study of literature cannot and do not take place outside the
context of human values. One's unique personal experiences are from whence their
values are formed. These values come to light as a reader reads or a writer
writes. Literature is a record of specific personal perceptions: H.
Read-"the outer image of inward things". Literature proves the
richness not the limitations of being human. Literary criticism is
discernment-the ability to see. The student needs to form their own critical
criteria and offer an interpretation of the work based on those criteria.
Judgmental reviewing is narrow and only one aspect of literary criticism. The
value of criticism is not that it lays down laws that any reader must follow,
but that it offers a new way of seeing a literary work, which may not have been
possible to the reader. For example in the critical analysis of a poem the
reader might look for the connections between words, stanzas, structure and
ideas. The four basic approaches to literary criticism are: 1) the mimetic 2)
the pragmatic 3) the expressive 4) the objective Mimetic approach- describes the
relationship of the literary work to the world or the universe in which the work
was conceived or being read. Pragmatic approach- describes the effects of the
work on its audience. Williams 2 Expressive approach- proposes the study of the
relationship of the work to the writer: biographical, psychological, history,
culture. Objective approach- is that which studies the work in and for itself
without reference to the world in which it exists, its effect on its readers, or
the works relationship to the author. The work for itself Objective criticism-
the study of a literary work is done without reference to the mimetic,
pragmatic, or expressive possibilities of interpretation. This type of criticism
regards the literary work as an object in and for itself because it is art and
the work of an individual artist. The literary work is a craft, a constructed
pattern of words, and the basis for our speculations, for its truth, its
revelation, and its power. Descriptive Critical Activities- seeks primarily to
describe a text. It is the approach to the work for itself in its simplest form.
It is employed on revisions, editions, and on the finished version. Concern lies
with ...
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