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    SOCIOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC,

    AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES


    IN READING LITERATURE USING
    THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT
    MARXIST PERSPECTIVE

    “Literature shows class


    struggle and materia-
    Lism.”
    It looks into how text serves as
    a propaganda material.
    MARXIST PERSPECTIVE

    What is a
    propaganda?
    -dissemination of information-
    facts, arguments, rumors, half-
    truths, or lies- to influence
    public opinion.
    MARXIST PERSPECTIVE
    -examines oppressions,
    social conflicts, and
    solution to these
    struggles as shown in
    the literary work
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    FEMINISM
    -Examines the
    role of the
    women in the
    Literature.
    -it looks into how the female
    character may be empowered or
    discriminated against.
    FEMINISM

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    2nd wave: lit\A bite-sized guide to Second Wave Feminism - all
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    Applying Feminist Literary Criticism: lit\Feminist Literary
    Criticism.mp4
    QUEER THEORY
    QUEER THEORY
    QUEER is an umbrella term for
    sexual and gender minorities
    who are not heterosexual or are
    not cisgender (*a person whose
    sense of personal identity and
    gender corresponds with their
    birth sex)
    QUEER THEORY
    -is concerned with the third
    gender
    -this perspective was named in
    1991
    QUEER THEORY
    -Under this perspective, the
    third gender, meaning gay,
    lesbians, and other characters
    or persona in literature that
    may fall under queer are
    being examined.
    POSTCOLONIALISM
    • Deals with the literatures produced by
    the people who once were colonies of
    the European imperial powers (e.g.
    Britain, France, and Spain)

    • Looks into the changes in the attitudes


    of post colonies after the colonial
    period.
    Examples of countries that were
    colonized:
    • Asia:
    1. India - Britain, Portuguese, Dutch,
    French - 17th century to Indian
    Independence (1947).
    2. Korea - Japan - Around 1910 to 1945.
    3. Hong Kong - Britain - 1842 to 1997.
    4. Philippines - Spain (1565-1898) and the
    United States (1898-1946)
    Examples of countries that were
    colonized:
    • South Pacific:
    1. Australia - Britain, Dutch - 18th century
    to 1901.
    2. New Zealand - Britain - 1847 to self-
    governing (1853) or dominion (1907).
    Examples of countries that were
    colonized:
    • Africa:
    All of Africa except Ethiopia and
    Liberia was colonized by every
    European colonial power
    possible.
    Examples of countries that were
    colonized:
    • North America:
    1. Canada - Britain, France - mid 16th
    century to Confederation (1867) or
    the Canada Act (1982).
    2. USA - Britain, France, Spain, Dutch,
    Germany - mid 16th century to
    American Independence (1776).
    POSTCOLONIALISM
    • Deals with the literatures produced by
    the people who once were colonies of
    the European imperial powers (e.g.
    Britain, France, and Spain)
    • Looks into the changes in the attitudes
    of post colonies after the colonial
    period.
    HISTORICISM OR THE
    TRADITIONAL HISTORICAL
    PERSPECTIVE
    • the oldest and one of the most
    widely-used critical approach
    • Is a perspective dealing with the
    history that influenced the
    writing of the literature
    HISTORICISM OR THE
    TRADITIONAL HISTORICAL
    PERSPECTIVE
    • involves understanding the
    events and experiences
    surrounding the composition of
    the work, especially the life of
    the author, and using the
    findings to interpret that work of
    literature.
    NEW HISTORICISM
    The historical approach was somewhat
    abandoned in the mid-twentieth century, in
    the wake of “New Criticism.”

    A school of thought in
    which disregards the author to
    focus on the work itself
    NEW HISTORICISM
    According to Lois Tyson, New Historical
    critics consider literary texts to be
    “cultural artifacts that can tell us
    something about the interplay of
    discourses, the web of social
    meanings, operating in the time
    and place in which the text was
    written”
    NEW HISTORICISM
    The aim is not to represent
    the past as it really was,
    but rather to present a new
    reality by resituating it.
    NEW HISTORICISM
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