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Literary Criticism Questions and Answers

What is formalist criticism?

What is the sociological approach to literature?

Explain the concept of a structure and discuss the idea of a stable center in detail.

What is the historical approach to literary criticism?

What is the difference between the Formalist and Deconstructionist schools of literary criticism?

In literature, what is biographical theory? 

In your opinion, what is the best critical approach to literature?

What are advantages and disadvantages of traditional criticism ? literary criticism

What is traditional criticism?

What are the features of traditional criticism?

Define literary criticism. 

What are some traits and assumptions of "formalist" literary criticism?

What is formalism in literature, sociology, and philosophy?

What is psychoanalytic criticism?

One school of literary criticism is biographical criticism. What are some of its characteristics and assumptions?

What is a "Contemporary Author"?

What are Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle essentially saying in their 1995 Pleasure?

What are some traits and assumptions of "new historicist" literary criticism?

What is the function and aim of literary criticism?

What are the points to include in a literary appreciation?  

How does Gina Wisker approach postcolonial literary critique?

Discuss new perspectives on literary criticism in terms of the analyses, interpretation, and evaluation of literary texts.

Comment critically on the relevance and limitations of the mythic-archetypal approaches to literature.

Why is criticism in crisis?  literary criticism 

Of the two--W. Wordsworth and S.T. Coledrige--who had more influence on modern criticism and in what respects?

How does New Criticism compare to earlier approaches?

Does new criticism seek to clearly separate literary writing from the broader social reality? Do you agree. Give reasons for your answer

Describe structuralism in 700 words.

How can the periods of English Literature be classified?

Can the evaluation of a literary text be more than subjective in some types of criticism?

Summarize the fifth chapter, "Modernity, Multiplicity and Becoming," in Pelagia Goulimari's Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to Postcolonialism.

Assess the introduction of this article below including its tone. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/the-games-spirit-has-been-killed-20080817-3x15.html

Do you think it's time to start thinking about literature in Norththrop Frye's terms?

Assess this sentence: "What should be a celebration of individual ability and achievement has become a greedy institution that gobbles up public money and encourages profligacy." http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/the-games-spirit-has-been-killed-20080817-3x15.html

Write a short paper on the basic characteristics of Romanticism.  

Is the literary essay an antiquated literary form -- in effect, a relic of the past rather than a vibrant genre that, even in an era of electronic media, will evolve, perhaps even thrive?

What *is* literary criticism? I am assigned an essay on "The Bottle Imp by R.L Stevenson and I have been told I must write some literacy critisism. The teacher also referred to it as secondary criticism and I'm not sure what to write or where to find it. The theme I am writing about in my essay is greed and how the characters' greed matures and grows through the story.

Assess the third paragraph in the article below including its tone. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/the-games-spirit-has-been-killed-20080817-3x15.html

What does "applying classical Indian aesthetics to literary and cultural studies" mean?

Describe hermeneutics according to Hans Robert Jauss?

Assume that Foster is right and "It is all political." Use his criteria to show that To Kill a Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet represent a political stance.

What advice can you give on how to make strong emphatic arguments in literary papers concerncing critical debates?

How do I do bibliographic research on major 18th through 20th century authors, like Joseph Conrad, in order to find important scholarly articles to cite in my own papers?

Why, in your view, did the literary critic William Deresiewicz write that "…great books say things that have the permanent power to disrupt our habitsof thought?"