10-second review: How help students learn and apply critical theories? Have students learn critical theory by breaking them into groups, each group responsible for becoming experts in a particular theory, demonstrating its use on a text and teaching that theory to the other groups.
Source: K Hinton. English Journal (November 2004), 60-64. The secondary school journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
What are the theories of literary criticism?
Historicism considers the literary work in light of "what really happened" during the period reflected in that work. It insists that to understand a piece, we need to understand the author's biography and social background, ideas circulating at the time, and the cultural milieu. Historicism also "finds significance in the ways a particular work resembles or differs from other works of its period and/or genre," and therefore may involve source studies. It may also include examination of philology and linguistics. It is typically a discipline involving impressively extensive research.
Note: For the next several days, I will present a single critical theory each day.
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To be continued.
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