HISTORICAL LITERARY CRITICISM

GROUP 1:
Members:
Amirul Asyraf Yogeswary Gunasegaran Nur Fatimah Mohammad Saiful Amin Munira Ahmad Kamil

Lecturer:
Mr. Abu Bakar Bin Hashim

WHAT IS LITERATURE?

Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, "literature" is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.

LITERARY CRITICISM

Literary criticism, starting from Aristotle in the 4th century BCE, ..studies the art of literature and explores the ways ..that literature affects us emotionally, intellectually, and ..aesthetically.

PURPOSE

to interpret the meaning of a literary work and evaluate its ..quality to promote high standards in literature and encourage a ..general appreciation of literature

WHAT CAN WE DO AS CRITICS?

to analyze the reasons for our responses to discover why we feel the way we do to search for relationships between the works we read to draw connections between our reading and our life ..experiences

HISTORICAL CRITICISM

Historical criticism examines the culture and the society from which a literary work came and how these influences affect the literature itself.

http://www2.nkfust.edu.tw/~emchen/CLit/study_criticism.htm#historical

CHARACTERISTICS OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM

focuses mainly on the subject's relevance, relationship with, ..and influence upon the historical period in which it was written looks at how the time period influenced the writing of the work ..as well as how events in the authors life influenced him or her A work of historical criticism posits a thesis about the author or ..time period based on the subject looks at texts in the same way as a historian looks at historical ..documents: in order to learn what they reveal about the ..historical and socio-cultural circumstances in which they were ..produced.

QUESTIONS TO ASK FROM THE HISTORICAL APPROACH:

Who is the author, where did he or she come from, and what was his/her object in writing the work? How did the political events of the time influence what the writer wrote? How did the predominant social customs of the time influence the writers outlook? What is the predominant philosophy that influenced the work? Were there any special circumstances under which the work was written?
http://www2.nkfust.edu.tw/~emchen/CLit/study_criticism.htm#historical

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESS

It enriches our understanding of the literature from the historical and societal perspective.

It often overlooks the literary elements and structure as well as the authors individual contributions.

HISTORICAL LITERARY CRITICISM WRITINGS

The Hero by Sue Ragland High Times In Jamaica by Richard Jacobs The One That Got Away by Denny Johnson To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee How Melaka Got Its Name Death of a Warrior
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Hero.shtml http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/HighTime872.shtml http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/OneThat.shtml

REFERENCES
http://www2.nkfust.edu.tw/~emchen/CLit/study_criticism.htm#historical http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng215/historical_criticism.htm http://comosr.spps.org/Lit_Theory.html http://restyo.blogspot.com/2010/08/literary-theories.html http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Literary_Criticism/Historical_Literary_Criticism http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Hero.shtml http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/HighTime872.shtml http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/OneThat.shtml

Thank you!!!!
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