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BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Literary Criticism Subject
What is the nature of literature?
Literature can be defined as an expression
of human feelings, thoughts, and ideas
whose medium is language, oral and
written.
It is not only about human ideas, thoughts,
and feelings but also about experiences of
the authors.
It can be medium for human to
communicate what they feel, think,
experience to the readers.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
‘Literature’ based on different point of
views
 literature is art,
 literature is language,
 literature is aesthetic,
 literature is fictional,
 literature is expressive, and
 literature is affective.
 Literature is everything in print.
 It means any writing can be
categorized as literature.’.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How Dr. Ellis describes literature
Dr. Rod Ellis- known as the "Father of
Second Language Acquisition“ (ASL)
(1989:30) defines literature as:
1. the verbal expression of human
imagination and
2. one of the primary means by which a
culture transmits itself.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Literature as art form
 2 CATEGORIES:
1. IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE -is highly
‘connotative 'which means words that used
in literary works have feeling and shades of
meaning that words to tend to evoke.
2. NON-IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE -means
that the words refer to meaning in
dictionary.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Literature as art form
(examples)
 IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE —or “literature of
power” includes poems, short stories, novels, and
plays. It interprets human experience by presenting
fictitious persons, incidents, or situations, not by
actual truths about particular events.
 NON-FICTICTIONAL LITERATURE –or “literature of
knowledge” includes biographies and essays which
presents actual facts, events, experiences and ideas.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Literature differ form ordinary spoken or
written language
 Literature uses special words, structures, and
characteristics. Primarily the language of literature
differs from ordinary language in three ways:
(1) language is concentrated and meaningful,
(2) its purpose is not simply to explain, argue, or make a
point but rather to give a sense of pleasure in the
discovery of a new experience, and
(3) it demands intense concentration from the readers. It
indicates that the language of literature has originality,
quality, creativity, and pleasure.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
2 categories of literature according to
Kleden
 Kleden (2004:7-8) states that literature can be differentiate
based on the kind of meanings that exist in a text.
a) LITERARY TEXT consists of textual meaning and referential
meaning and
b) NON-LITERARY TEXT only consists of referential meaning.
 The TEXTUAL MEANING is the meaning that is produced by the
relationship of text itself.
 REFERENTIAL MEANING it is produced by the relationship
between internal text and external text (world beyond the text).
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Literary from the use of language and the
existence
From the use of language and the
existence of meaning in literary
works, it can be concluded that
poetry, prose and drama are put in
literary works article, journalism,
news, bibliography, memoir, and so
on can be categorized as non-literary
works.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Function of literature
1. ENTERTAINMENT FUNCTION-
known as “pleasure reading”. In
this function, literature is used to
entertain its readers.
 It is consumed for the sake of one’s
enjoyment.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Function of literature
 2. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
FUNCTION– Literature shows how
society works around them.
 It helps the reader “see” the social and
political constructs around him and
shows the state of the people and the
world around him.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Function of literature
3. IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTION –
shapes our way of thinking based on
the ideas of other people.
Literature also displays a person’s
ideology placed in the text
consciously and unconsciously.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Function of literature
4. MORAL FUNCTION – Literature
may impart moral values to its
readers.
The morals contained in a literary
text, whether good or bad, are
absorbed by whoever reads it, thus
helps in shaping their personality.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Function of literature
5. LINGUISTIC FUNCTION – Literature
preserves the language of every
civilization from where it originated.
They are also evidences that a certain
civilization has existed by recording the
language and preserving it through wide
spans of time.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Function of literature
6. CULTURAL FUNCTION – Literature
orients us to the traditions, folklore and
the arts of our ethnic group's heritage.
It preserves entire cultures and creates an
imprint of the people’s way of living for
others to read, hear, and learn.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Function of literature
 7. EDUCATIONAL FUNCTION – Literature
teaches us of many things about the human
experience.
 It is used to portray the facets of life that we
see, and those that we would never dream of
seeing.
 Literature therefore, is a conduct for the
chance to experience and feel things where we
can learn things about life.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
SEEING IS BELIEVING
Function of literature
8. HISTORICAL FUNCTION – Ancient
texts, illuminated scripts, stone tablets
etc, keeps a record of events that
happened in the place where they
originated.
Thus, they serve as time capsules of
letters that is studies by scholars and
researchers of today.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Importance of literature
 Literature improves your command of
language.
 It teaches you about the life, cultures and
experiences of people in other parts of the
world.
 It gives you information about other parts of
the world which you may never be able to visit
in your lifetime.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Importance of literature
It entertains you and provides useful
occupation in your free time.
 It makes you a wiser and more
experienced person by forcing you to
judge, sympathize with, or criticize
the characters you read about.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Importance of literature
It helps you compare your own
experiences with the experiences of
other people.
 It gives information which may be useful
in other subjects, for example,
in Geography, Science, History, Social
Studies, and so on.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Importance of literary criticism
As a tool in literary studies, critic plays an
important role in doing studies or analysis
about literary work.
 Applying criticism make our focus on
certain aspect or element of literary work
sharper than reading as usual.
The reader can focus on an aspect as his
interest toward the literary work.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Universal characteristic of literature
1. Timelessness
2. Eternity
3. Universality
4. Permanence
LITERATURE is a permanent
expression in words of some though
or feelings or idea about life and the
world.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Literary criticism and its purpose
 Literary criticism refers to analysis and
judgment of works of literature.
 It tries to interpret specific works of
literature, and also helps us to identify and
understand different ways of examining and
interpreting them.
 Study of literary criticism contributes to
maintenance of high standards of
literature.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
analyze before you judge
Literary criticism and its purpose
It is the study, evaluation, and
interpretation of literature.
Modern literary criticism is often
influenced by literary theory, which
is the philosophical discussion of
literature's goals and methods.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Functions of literary criticism
 The modern understanding of criticism is
regarded as having two different
functions which helps to achieve the main
purposes of criticism.
 Criticism is the process of analysis and
description and interpretation of literary
works for the purpose of increasing
understanding and raising appreciation.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How do you do literary criticism?
 Method to Applying Advanced Critical Techniques
 Read the work of literature critically.
 Evaluate as you read.
 Brainstorm which aspect to write about.
 Formulate a thesis statement.
 Create an outline.
 Select quotes and patterns that support your thesis.
 Find other criticism to support your thesis.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Types of literary criticism
 Such analysis may be based from a variety of critical
approaches or movements, such as:
1. archetypal criticism,
2. cultural criticism,
3. feminist criticism,
4. psychoanalytic criticism,
5. Marxist Criticism,
6. New Criticism (formalism/structuralism),
7. New Historicism,
8. post-structuralism, and
9. reader-response criticism.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Types of literary criticism
 ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM- is a critical theory that
interprets a text by focusing on symbols, images,
and character types in literary works that is used to
discuss in plot, character or situation.
 It recognizes conscious and unconscious symbols
that relates to emotions, values, feelings to specific
images.
 It encourages the readers to examine basic beliefs,
fear, and anxieties.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Types of literary criticism
 CULTURAL CRITICISM – focuses on the elements of culture
and how they affects one’s perceptions and understanding of
texts.
 4 assumptions:
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Types of literary criticism
 FEMINIST CRITICISM is a product of the feminist
movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s.
 It is the representation of women in literature as an
expression of the social norms about women and
their social roles and as a means of socialization.
 It focused on the images of the women in books by
male writers to expose the patriarchal ideology and
how women characters are portrayed.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Types of literary criticism
 PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM – based on Sigmund
Frued ID, ego and superego, the author’s own
childhood effects the book and character.
 It is a type of criticism that uses theories of
psychology to analyze literature.
 It focuses on the author’s state of mind or the state of
the mind of fictional character.
 Uses 2 different approaches: psychoanalysis of the
author and psychoanalysis of the character.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Types of literary criticism
 MARXIST CRITICISM- applies political science and
economics to the study of literature.
 Grew out of writings of Karl Marx, who was highly
critical of the capitalist system of economics and
politics.
 It concerned with the issues of class conflict and
materialism, wealth, work, and the various ideologies
that surrounds these things. It connotes higher class
do control arts, literatures, and ideologies.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Marxism as compared to Feminist and New
Historicism
Like feminist critics, it investigates how
literature can work as a force for social
change or as a reaffirmation of existing
conditions.
Like New Historicism, it examines how
history influences literature; the
difference is that Marxism focuses on
the lower class.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How to do Marxist reading
1. Look for examples of oppression, bad working conditions, class
struggles and other related issues.
2. Search for the “covert” meaning underneath the “overt” which is
about class struggles, historical stages, and economic conditions.
3. Relate the context of a work to the social-class status of the author.
4. Relate the literary work to the social conditions of its time period.
5. Explain an entire genre in terms of its social period.
6. Show how literature is shaped by political, economic, labor, and class
conditions.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Types of literary criticism
 NEW CRITICISM
(FORMALISM/STRUCTURALISM)– New criticism
was a formalist movement in literary theory that
dominated in American literary criticism in the
middle decades of the 20th century which
emphasized close reading particularly of poetry, to
discover how a work of literature functioned as a
self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.
Types of literary criticism
 FORMALISM refers to critical approaches that
analyze, interpret, or evaluate the inherent
features of a text.
 These features include not only the grammar
and syntax but also literary devices such as a
meter and figures of speech.
 It reduces the importance of a text’s historical
biographical and cultural context.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Types of literary criticism
 NEW HISTORICISM– was fist developed in 1980 by
the American critic Stephen Greenbelts.
 It is based on the idea that literature should be
studied and interpreted within a wide context
examining both how the author’s time affected the
work and how the work reflects the author’s time, in
turn recognizing that current cultural contexts color
that critic’s conclusion.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Types of literary criticism
 POST-STRUCTURALISM- offers a way of studying
how knowledge is produced and critiques
structuralism premise.
 It rejects the idea of a literary text having a single
purpose, a single meaning, or one singular existence.
 It argues to understand an object (e.g. a text), it is
necessary to study both the object itself and the
systems of knowledge that produced the object.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Post-structuralism critic
 POST-STRUCTURALISTIC CRITIC must be
able to utilize a variety of perspectives to
create a multifaceted interpretation of a text,
even if these interpretations conflict with one
another.
 It is particularly important to analyze how the
meanings of a text shift in relation to certain
variables, usually the identity of the reader.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Types of literary criticism
 READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM – (RR) critic believe
that a reader’s interaction with the text give its
meaning. The text cannot exist without the reader.
 It focuses on the reader or audience and the
experience of a literary work rather than the author or
the context and form of work.
 If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to
hear, does it make a noise? If a text sits on the shelf in
a bookstore and no one is around to read it, does the
text have meaning?
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Role of the Reader Response Criticism
 The role of the reader is pivotal in the
understanding of literature—they can use
a psychoanalytical, structural, feminist, etc.
approach to formulate their criticism
(anything goes).
 Readers are active in the reading process.
They cannot read literature passively but
must react and therefore bring meaning to
the text.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How to Critique Literature
1.Read the literature carefully. You start
a critique not when you sit down to write
the essay, but when you sit down to read
the work of literature.
Ask yourself why the characters do the
things they do in all works of literature,
whether novels, short stories, essays, or
poems.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How to Critique Literature
 2. Create a graphic organizer. Organize your
observations, including an idea web, Venn
diagram, T-chart, and more.
 For example, for a T-chart, list the names of the
characters in one column and their actions in
another as you read.
 After reading, you can add a column with why
you think they did each action.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How to Critique Literature
 3. Think about the literal meaning. Think about what each character did
and how each action contributed to the plot.
 Look at your graphic organizer to help you understand what happened in
the book.
 Don’t try to decide what that author is saying at this point. Just look at the
actions and plot at face value.
 This is similar to artwork. Instead of looking at a painting to figure out
what the artist was communicating, just look at what is literally present in
the painting.
 For example, what items are present in Van Gogh’s ‘’Starry Night’’? Don’t
think about what he is trying to say in this painting; think about the stars,
the swirling night sky, and the houses below.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How to Critique Literature
 4. Think about what the author might be suggesting about
society or humanity. After you have a good understanding of
the events of the book, you can try to understand what the
author was suggesting about human nature through the
characters and their actions. These things are called the themes.
 For example, ask yourself, why does the witch turn the prince
into a beast in Beauty and the Beast? What does this action
suggest about human nature?
 Also think about what lesson the reader can learn from the
characters. What does the Beast teach us?
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How to Critique Literature
 5. Form a thesis statement. After you have selected one
lesson the reader can learn from the work of literature, it is time
to make a thesis statement out of it.
 A thesis statement is a single sentence that makes a claim
about the piece of literature that can be supported using
textual evidence, such as quotes from the piece of literature.
 [2] The format for a thesis may look something like this: _______
is true because __________, ____________, and ___________.
 [3] The first blank is your opinion. For example, The Beast
teaches us that we should be hospitable to everyone.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Textual
evidence
How to Critique Literature
 Forming a thesis statement The rest of the blanks tell why your opinion
is true: The Beast teaches us that we should be hospitable to everyone
because he learns from his mistake, becomes a compassionate person
through his time as a beast, and regrets that he was ever rude to the
witch.
 However, keep in mind that there are many different ways to form a
thesis. What is most important is to make sure that your thesis includes a
claim and a summary of the reasons for your claim.
 For example, you might phrase your thesis as “Because the Beast suffers
for his actions, Beauty and the Beast argues that we should be hospitable
to everyone and this theme carries through the story.”
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How to Critique Literature
 6. Locate evidence in the literature to support
your thesis. Look again at your graphic
organizer and look for events that demonstrate
all of the reasons your thesis is true. Highlight
these events and make sure you have the page
numbers.
 You can summarize these events, or use direct
quotes from the book, but both need to have a
page number. This prevents plagiarism.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How to Critique Literature
 For example, you might use a quote that shows how the
Beast is inhospitable as one of your first examples. Then,
you might use other examples from the text to show the
continuation of this theme.
 You do not have to use direct quotes all of the time. You
can also paraphrase a passage by putting it into your own
words, or summarize longer passages by describing the
events in a less detailed way in your own words. No matter
if you are quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing, make sure
that you include a page number for your evidence.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How to Critique Literature
 7. Make an outline. Use your thesis statement in
order to prepare an organized essay.
 An outline should have roman numerals for each
paragraph and regular numbers for the parts of
each paragraph.
 Look up an example of a good outline to guide
you.
 Fill in the outline with topic sentences and events
from the literature that support each topic
sentence.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How to Critique Literature
 8. Write the essay. Prepare a detailed outline. Write at least
five paragraphs.
 The thesis statement comes at the end of the first
paragraph, and each body paragraph has one or two quotes
or examples from the text.
 Make sure to introduce each quote and then explain the
quote or example after you put it in the body paragraphs.
 Close the essay with a conclusion paragraph, where you
summarize the essay in just a few sentences.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
How to Critique Literature
 9. Revise the essay. Be sure to proofread and
edit your essay.
 Look for typos, punctuation errors, and
grammar errors.
 You should correct these mistakes (called
revising) before turning in the essay.
 It is helpful to have someone else read the
essay to help you find these errors.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Branches of literature
 Literature has only three
specific and main branches
and that is poetry, prose and
drama. Even though this are
just three but it is subdivided
in to many categories and
more sub categories that we
cannot count immediately.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Prose
 Literature that is written in the ordinary language without
metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
 Types of prose are:
1. NONFICTIONAL PROSE - it includes biographies, essays,
journals, letters, memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, essays,
diaries and journals, magazines, newspapers, subject text books
such as in Geography, History and Civic Education
2. FICTIONAL PROSE - it includes novels, novellas, short stories,
plays, poems, oral literature, and songs.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Fictional Literature
1. Plays
2. poems
3. short stories
4. Novels
5. oral literature and
6. songs
Non-Fictional Literature
a) autobiographies,
b) Biographies
c) essays
d) diaries
e) Journals
f) Magazines
g) newspapers
h) subject text books such as:
a. in Geography
b. History and
c. Civic Education
Example of Prose in Literature
I shall never be fool enough to turn knight-errant. For
I see quite well that it’s not the fashion now to do as
they did in the olden days when they say those
famous knights roamed the world.
 (Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes)
 Don Quixote is often considered the forerunner of the modern novel, and here we
can see Cervantes’s prose style as being very direct with some sarcasm.
Example of Prose in Literature
 “I never know you was so brave, Jim,” she went on comfortingly. “You is
just like big mans; you wait for him lift his head and then you go for him.
Ain’t you feel scared a bit? Now we take that snake home and show
everybody. Nobody ain’t seen in this kawn-tree so big snake like you kill.”
 (My Antonia by Willa Cather)
 In this excerpt from My Antonia, Willa Cather uses her prose to suggest the sound of
Antonia’s English. She is a recent immigrant and as the book progresses her English improves,
yet never loses the flavor of being a non-native speaker.
BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-
PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
Thank you for reading!
CHELDHAYE

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Understanding the nature, function, and value of literature and how to critique

  • 1. (How to critique) BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA-PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT Literary Criticism Subject
  • 2. What is the nature of literature? Literature can be defined as an expression of human feelings, thoughts, and ideas whose medium is language, oral and written. It is not only about human ideas, thoughts, and feelings but also about experiences of the authors. It can be medium for human to communicate what they feel, think, experience to the readers. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 3. ‘Literature’ based on different point of views  literature is art,  literature is language,  literature is aesthetic,  literature is fictional,  literature is expressive, and  literature is affective.  Literature is everything in print.  It means any writing can be categorized as literature.’. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 4. How Dr. Ellis describes literature Dr. Rod Ellis- known as the "Father of Second Language Acquisition“ (ASL) (1989:30) defines literature as: 1. the verbal expression of human imagination and 2. one of the primary means by which a culture transmits itself. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 5. Literature as art form  2 CATEGORIES: 1. IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE -is highly ‘connotative 'which means words that used in literary works have feeling and shades of meaning that words to tend to evoke. 2. NON-IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE -means that the words refer to meaning in dictionary. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 6. Literature as art form (examples)  IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE —or “literature of power” includes poems, short stories, novels, and plays. It interprets human experience by presenting fictitious persons, incidents, or situations, not by actual truths about particular events.  NON-FICTICTIONAL LITERATURE –or “literature of knowledge” includes biographies and essays which presents actual facts, events, experiences and ideas. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 7. Literature differ form ordinary spoken or written language  Literature uses special words, structures, and characteristics. Primarily the language of literature differs from ordinary language in three ways: (1) language is concentrated and meaningful, (2) its purpose is not simply to explain, argue, or make a point but rather to give a sense of pleasure in the discovery of a new experience, and (3) it demands intense concentration from the readers. It indicates that the language of literature has originality, quality, creativity, and pleasure. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 8. 2 categories of literature according to Kleden  Kleden (2004:7-8) states that literature can be differentiate based on the kind of meanings that exist in a text. a) LITERARY TEXT consists of textual meaning and referential meaning and b) NON-LITERARY TEXT only consists of referential meaning.  The TEXTUAL MEANING is the meaning that is produced by the relationship of text itself.  REFERENTIAL MEANING it is produced by the relationship between internal text and external text (world beyond the text). BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 9. Literary from the use of language and the existence From the use of language and the existence of meaning in literary works, it can be concluded that poetry, prose and drama are put in literary works article, journalism, news, bibliography, memoir, and so on can be categorized as non-literary works. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 10. Function of literature 1. ENTERTAINMENT FUNCTION- known as “pleasure reading”. In this function, literature is used to entertain its readers.  It is consumed for the sake of one’s enjoyment. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 11. Function of literature  2. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL FUNCTION– Literature shows how society works around them.  It helps the reader “see” the social and political constructs around him and shows the state of the people and the world around him. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 12. Function of literature 3. IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTION – shapes our way of thinking based on the ideas of other people. Literature also displays a person’s ideology placed in the text consciously and unconsciously. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 13. Function of literature 4. MORAL FUNCTION – Literature may impart moral values to its readers. The morals contained in a literary text, whether good or bad, are absorbed by whoever reads it, thus helps in shaping their personality. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 14. Function of literature 5. LINGUISTIC FUNCTION – Literature preserves the language of every civilization from where it originated. They are also evidences that a certain civilization has existed by recording the language and preserving it through wide spans of time. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 15. Function of literature 6. CULTURAL FUNCTION – Literature orients us to the traditions, folklore and the arts of our ethnic group's heritage. It preserves entire cultures and creates an imprint of the people’s way of living for others to read, hear, and learn. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 16. Function of literature  7. EDUCATIONAL FUNCTION – Literature teaches us of many things about the human experience.  It is used to portray the facets of life that we see, and those that we would never dream of seeing.  Literature therefore, is a conduct for the chance to experience and feel things where we can learn things about life. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT SEEING IS BELIEVING
  • 17. Function of literature 8. HISTORICAL FUNCTION – Ancient texts, illuminated scripts, stone tablets etc, keeps a record of events that happened in the place where they originated. Thus, they serve as time capsules of letters that is studies by scholars and researchers of today. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 18. Importance of literature  Literature improves your command of language.  It teaches you about the life, cultures and experiences of people in other parts of the world.  It gives you information about other parts of the world which you may never be able to visit in your lifetime. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 19. Importance of literature It entertains you and provides useful occupation in your free time.  It makes you a wiser and more experienced person by forcing you to judge, sympathize with, or criticize the characters you read about. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 20. Importance of literature It helps you compare your own experiences with the experiences of other people.  It gives information which may be useful in other subjects, for example, in Geography, Science, History, Social Studies, and so on. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 21. Importance of literary criticism As a tool in literary studies, critic plays an important role in doing studies or analysis about literary work.  Applying criticism make our focus on certain aspect or element of literary work sharper than reading as usual. The reader can focus on an aspect as his interest toward the literary work. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 22. Universal characteristic of literature 1. Timelessness 2. Eternity 3. Universality 4. Permanence LITERATURE is a permanent expression in words of some though or feelings or idea about life and the world. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 23. Literary criticism and its purpose  Literary criticism refers to analysis and judgment of works of literature.  It tries to interpret specific works of literature, and also helps us to identify and understand different ways of examining and interpreting them.  Study of literary criticism contributes to maintenance of high standards of literature. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT analyze before you judge
  • 24. Literary criticism and its purpose It is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 25. Functions of literary criticism  The modern understanding of criticism is regarded as having two different functions which helps to achieve the main purposes of criticism.  Criticism is the process of analysis and description and interpretation of literary works for the purpose of increasing understanding and raising appreciation. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 26. How do you do literary criticism?  Method to Applying Advanced Critical Techniques  Read the work of literature critically.  Evaluate as you read.  Brainstorm which aspect to write about.  Formulate a thesis statement.  Create an outline.  Select quotes and patterns that support your thesis.  Find other criticism to support your thesis. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 27. Types of literary criticism  Such analysis may be based from a variety of critical approaches or movements, such as: 1. archetypal criticism, 2. cultural criticism, 3. feminist criticism, 4. psychoanalytic criticism, 5. Marxist Criticism, 6. New Criticism (formalism/structuralism), 7. New Historicism, 8. post-structuralism, and 9. reader-response criticism. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 28. Types of literary criticism  ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM- is a critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on symbols, images, and character types in literary works that is used to discuss in plot, character or situation.  It recognizes conscious and unconscious symbols that relates to emotions, values, feelings to specific images.  It encourages the readers to examine basic beliefs, fear, and anxieties. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 29. Types of literary criticism  CULTURAL CRITICISM – focuses on the elements of culture and how they affects one’s perceptions and understanding of texts.  4 assumptions: BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 30. Types of literary criticism  FEMINIST CRITICISM is a product of the feminist movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s.  It is the representation of women in literature as an expression of the social norms about women and their social roles and as a means of socialization.  It focused on the images of the women in books by male writers to expose the patriarchal ideology and how women characters are portrayed. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 31. Types of literary criticism  PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM – based on Sigmund Frued ID, ego and superego, the author’s own childhood effects the book and character.  It is a type of criticism that uses theories of psychology to analyze literature.  It focuses on the author’s state of mind or the state of the mind of fictional character.  Uses 2 different approaches: psychoanalysis of the author and psychoanalysis of the character. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 32. Types of literary criticism  MARXIST CRITICISM- applies political science and economics to the study of literature.  Grew out of writings of Karl Marx, who was highly critical of the capitalist system of economics and politics.  It concerned with the issues of class conflict and materialism, wealth, work, and the various ideologies that surrounds these things. It connotes higher class do control arts, literatures, and ideologies. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 33. Marxism as compared to Feminist and New Historicism Like feminist critics, it investigates how literature can work as a force for social change or as a reaffirmation of existing conditions. Like New Historicism, it examines how history influences literature; the difference is that Marxism focuses on the lower class. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 34. How to do Marxist reading 1. Look for examples of oppression, bad working conditions, class struggles and other related issues. 2. Search for the “covert” meaning underneath the “overt” which is about class struggles, historical stages, and economic conditions. 3. Relate the context of a work to the social-class status of the author. 4. Relate the literary work to the social conditions of its time period. 5. Explain an entire genre in terms of its social period. 6. Show how literature is shaped by political, economic, labor, and class conditions. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 35. Types of literary criticism  NEW CRITICISM (FORMALISM/STRUCTURALISM)– New criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated in American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century which emphasized close reading particularly of poetry, to discover how a work of literature functioned as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.
  • 36. Types of literary criticism  FORMALISM refers to critical approaches that analyze, interpret, or evaluate the inherent features of a text.  These features include not only the grammar and syntax but also literary devices such as a meter and figures of speech.  It reduces the importance of a text’s historical biographical and cultural context. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 37. Types of literary criticism  NEW HISTORICISM– was fist developed in 1980 by the American critic Stephen Greenbelts.  It is based on the idea that literature should be studied and interpreted within a wide context examining both how the author’s time affected the work and how the work reflects the author’s time, in turn recognizing that current cultural contexts color that critic’s conclusion. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 38. Types of literary criticism  POST-STRUCTURALISM- offers a way of studying how knowledge is produced and critiques structuralism premise.  It rejects the idea of a literary text having a single purpose, a single meaning, or one singular existence.  It argues to understand an object (e.g. a text), it is necessary to study both the object itself and the systems of knowledge that produced the object. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 39. Post-structuralism critic  POST-STRUCTURALISTIC CRITIC must be able to utilize a variety of perspectives to create a multifaceted interpretation of a text, even if these interpretations conflict with one another.  It is particularly important to analyze how the meanings of a text shift in relation to certain variables, usually the identity of the reader. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 40. Types of literary criticism  READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM – (RR) critic believe that a reader’s interaction with the text give its meaning. The text cannot exist without the reader.  It focuses on the reader or audience and the experience of a literary work rather than the author or the context and form of work.  If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear, does it make a noise? If a text sits on the shelf in a bookstore and no one is around to read it, does the text have meaning? BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 41. Role of the Reader Response Criticism  The role of the reader is pivotal in the understanding of literature—they can use a psychoanalytical, structural, feminist, etc. approach to formulate their criticism (anything goes).  Readers are active in the reading process. They cannot read literature passively but must react and therefore bring meaning to the text. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 42. How to Critique Literature 1.Read the literature carefully. You start a critique not when you sit down to write the essay, but when you sit down to read the work of literature. Ask yourself why the characters do the things they do in all works of literature, whether novels, short stories, essays, or poems. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 43. How to Critique Literature  2. Create a graphic organizer. Organize your observations, including an idea web, Venn diagram, T-chart, and more.  For example, for a T-chart, list the names of the characters in one column and their actions in another as you read.  After reading, you can add a column with why you think they did each action. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 44. How to Critique Literature  3. Think about the literal meaning. Think about what each character did and how each action contributed to the plot.  Look at your graphic organizer to help you understand what happened in the book.  Don’t try to decide what that author is saying at this point. Just look at the actions and plot at face value.  This is similar to artwork. Instead of looking at a painting to figure out what the artist was communicating, just look at what is literally present in the painting.  For example, what items are present in Van Gogh’s ‘’Starry Night’’? Don’t think about what he is trying to say in this painting; think about the stars, the swirling night sky, and the houses below. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 45. How to Critique Literature  4. Think about what the author might be suggesting about society or humanity. After you have a good understanding of the events of the book, you can try to understand what the author was suggesting about human nature through the characters and their actions. These things are called the themes.  For example, ask yourself, why does the witch turn the prince into a beast in Beauty and the Beast? What does this action suggest about human nature?  Also think about what lesson the reader can learn from the characters. What does the Beast teach us? BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 46. How to Critique Literature  5. Form a thesis statement. After you have selected one lesson the reader can learn from the work of literature, it is time to make a thesis statement out of it.  A thesis statement is a single sentence that makes a claim about the piece of literature that can be supported using textual evidence, such as quotes from the piece of literature.  [2] The format for a thesis may look something like this: _______ is true because __________, ____________, and ___________.  [3] The first blank is your opinion. For example, The Beast teaches us that we should be hospitable to everyone. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT Textual evidence
  • 47. How to Critique Literature  Forming a thesis statement The rest of the blanks tell why your opinion is true: The Beast teaches us that we should be hospitable to everyone because he learns from his mistake, becomes a compassionate person through his time as a beast, and regrets that he was ever rude to the witch.  However, keep in mind that there are many different ways to form a thesis. What is most important is to make sure that your thesis includes a claim and a summary of the reasons for your claim.  For example, you might phrase your thesis as “Because the Beast suffers for his actions, Beauty and the Beast argues that we should be hospitable to everyone and this theme carries through the story.” BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 48. How to Critique Literature  6. Locate evidence in the literature to support your thesis. Look again at your graphic organizer and look for events that demonstrate all of the reasons your thesis is true. Highlight these events and make sure you have the page numbers.  You can summarize these events, or use direct quotes from the book, but both need to have a page number. This prevents plagiarism. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 49. How to Critique Literature  For example, you might use a quote that shows how the Beast is inhospitable as one of your first examples. Then, you might use other examples from the text to show the continuation of this theme.  You do not have to use direct quotes all of the time. You can also paraphrase a passage by putting it into your own words, or summarize longer passages by describing the events in a less detailed way in your own words. No matter if you are quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing, make sure that you include a page number for your evidence. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 50. How to Critique Literature  7. Make an outline. Use your thesis statement in order to prepare an organized essay.  An outline should have roman numerals for each paragraph and regular numbers for the parts of each paragraph.  Look up an example of a good outline to guide you.  Fill in the outline with topic sentences and events from the literature that support each topic sentence. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 51. How to Critique Literature  8. Write the essay. Prepare a detailed outline. Write at least five paragraphs.  The thesis statement comes at the end of the first paragraph, and each body paragraph has one or two quotes or examples from the text.  Make sure to introduce each quote and then explain the quote or example after you put it in the body paragraphs.  Close the essay with a conclusion paragraph, where you summarize the essay in just a few sentences. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 52. How to Critique Literature  9. Revise the essay. Be sure to proofread and edit your essay.  Look for typos, punctuation errors, and grammar errors.  You should correct these mistakes (called revising) before turning in the essay.  It is helpful to have someone else read the essay to help you find these errors. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 53. Branches of literature  Literature has only three specific and main branches and that is poetry, prose and drama. Even though this are just three but it is subdivided in to many categories and more sub categories that we cannot count immediately. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 54. Prose  Literature that is written in the ordinary language without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.  Types of prose are: 1. NONFICTIONAL PROSE - it includes biographies, essays, journals, letters, memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, essays, diaries and journals, magazines, newspapers, subject text books such as in Geography, History and Civic Education 2. FICTIONAL PROSE - it includes novels, novellas, short stories, plays, poems, oral literature, and songs. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 55. Fictional Literature 1. Plays 2. poems 3. short stories 4. Novels 5. oral literature and 6. songs
  • 56. Non-Fictional Literature a) autobiographies, b) Biographies c) essays d) diaries e) Journals f) Magazines g) newspapers h) subject text books such as: a. in Geography b. History and c. Civic Education
  • 57. Example of Prose in Literature I shall never be fool enough to turn knight-errant. For I see quite well that it’s not the fashion now to do as they did in the olden days when they say those famous knights roamed the world.  (Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes)  Don Quixote is often considered the forerunner of the modern novel, and here we can see Cervantes’s prose style as being very direct with some sarcasm.
  • 58. Example of Prose in Literature  “I never know you was so brave, Jim,” she went on comfortingly. “You is just like big mans; you wait for him lift his head and then you go for him. Ain’t you feel scared a bit? Now we take that snake home and show everybody. Nobody ain’t seen in this kawn-tree so big snake like you kill.”  (My Antonia by Willa Cather)  In this excerpt from My Antonia, Willa Cather uses her prose to suggest the sound of Antonia’s English. She is a recent immigrant and as the book progresses her English improves, yet never loses the flavor of being a non-native speaker. BY: CHELDY SYGACO ELUMBA- PABLEO,MPA,JD,LPT
  • 59. Thank you for reading! CHELDHAYE