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    ENGL63: LITERARY CRITICISM ->> Literary Discussion vs. Literary Analysis vs.

    Literary Interpretation
    REVIEWER
    - Literary Discussion

    - Casual Conversation about a literary texts.


    - What can you say about the picture?
    - Literary Analysis
    - It’s all about our own perspective
    - Structured examination of a literary piece.

    - Literary Interpretation
    - What is Literary?
    - In-depth understanding of the literary
    - concerning the writing, study, or content of piece. Provision of meaning and explanation.
    literature, especially of the kind valued for
    quality of form.

    - What is Criticism? LITERARY PERIODS

    - the analysis and judgment of the merits and ->> I. Classical Period (1200 BCE - 455 BCE) - oral
    faults of a literary or artistic work. tradition

    - What is Literary Criticism? a. Homeric/Heroic Period (Iliad & Odyssey) -


    Homer
    - The study, discussion, evaluation, and
    interpretation of the text. b. Classical Greek Period (Golden Age of
    Greece) (city-state & democracy - polis) -
    - This includes the classification of genre. Philosphers (Aesop)
    - Asks what the literature is, what it does, c. Classical Roman Period (Dictatorship/Julius
    and what it is worth. Caesar) orid, Horace & Virgil
    ->> Purposes of Literary Criticism d. Patristic Period (Bible) - Saint Jerome
    - Why do we have to analyze everything? ->> II. The Medieval Period (455 BCE - 485 CE)
    - “The life which is unexamined is not worth a. The Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period)
    living” - Socrates
    - "Dark Ages" - Rome fell & the Barbarians
    1. Helps us understand what is important tribe moved into Europe.
    about the text.
    2. Helps us understand the relationship - rise of poetry
    between the author, reader, and the text.
    3. Enhances our enjoyment in reading a - Epic story (Beowulf)
    literary work. b. The Middle English Period

    - rise of tales
    - Geoffrey Chaucer (father of english - Queen Victoria
    literature)
    - Sentimental Novels
    - 24 Canterbury Tales (ex. The Wife of a
    Bath's Tale) - British Writers:

    ->> III. The Renaissance Period & Reformation 1. Elizabeth Browning (How Do I Love Thee)
    (1485 - 1660 CE) 2. Robert Browning (My Last Duchess)
    a. Early Tudor Period (Henry VII) 3. Charles Dickens (The Tale of Two Cities)
    - emergence of Protestantism - American Writers:
    - Edmund Spencer (poet) 1. Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass)
    b. Elizabethan Peiod 2. Emily Dickinson (Hope is the Things with
    - Queen Elizabeth Feathers)

    - rise of sonnet (William Shakespeare, - Rise of Aesthetic Movement


    Christopher Marlowe) - Intellectual Movement
    ->> IV. The Enlightenment Period (Neo-classical) ->> VII. The Modern Period (1914 - 1945 CE)
    (1660 - 1970 CE)
    - The Harlem Renaissance - Black Writers
    - Neoclassical - influence of classical
    literature - British Writers:

    a. The Age of Johnson - transition toward 1. Dylan Thomas


    romanticism
    - Don't Go Gentle Into That Goodnight
    - Writers: Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edward
    - American Writers:
    Gibbon, Thomas Gray, Thomas Paine (The
    Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) 1. Robert Frost
    ->> V. The Romantic Period (1790 - 1830 BCE) - The Road Not Taken
    - Theme: Love, Nature, and Imagination - A Time to Talk
    - Writers: Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice 2. Flannery O'Connor
    - Gothic Writings - (horror novels) - A Good Man is Hard to Find (short story)
    - Writer - Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven, The 3. Ernest Hemingway
    Black Cat)
    - The Old Man & The Sea
    ->> VII. The Victorian Period (1832 - 1901 CE)
    - Realism - dominant fashion, realistic
    characters over complicated plot

    - Theme - social issues, truths about everyday


    life

    ->> VIII. Post-Modern Period (1945 - onward)

    1. Multiculturalism - use of different cultures

    2. Metafiction - a story within a story

    3. Fragmented Poetry - intertextuality

    - Writers:

    1. T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns)

    - "Only those who will risk go far" -The


    Waste Land

    2. Langston Hughes

    - dreams deffered

    - Magical Realism - magical/supernatural

    - Gabriel Garcia Manner/Magner

    - J.K. Rowling

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