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| Aims to describe the reader's experience of the text. |
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| Generally seen as the most basic form of criticism. |
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| Concerned with main themes, literary movements, religious movements, and politics important during the time a text was written. |
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| Larsen used this type of criticism to critique Freud's analysis of Oedipus |
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| Emphasis on patriarchal social forces. |
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| Literary works do not yield fixed, single meanings. |
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| Readers Response and Deconstruction |
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| Exploits the problematic nature of language. |
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| Emphasis on the creation of meaning rather than on the discovery of meaning. |
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| Deconstruction and Reader Response |
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| Romance, Tragedy, Comedy, and Irony |
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| Mardy Philippian's analysis of 17th century devotional texts. |
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| New Historicist and Reader Response |
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| Critique of power and power structures. |
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| Marxist, Feminist, Deconstruction, and Postcolonial |
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| Emphasis on the interaction between the historic context of a work and a modern reader's understanding and interpretation of the work. |
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| Understanding of literature through a focus on an author's life and times. |
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| The study of cultural behavior and expression in relationship to the formerly colonized world. |
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| Emphasis on objectivity in historical study. |
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| Rejection of objectivity in historical study. |
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| A general term for an approach that has a great variety of theorists and schools of thought. |
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| Northrop Frye, Leland Ryken, Brian Larsen |
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| Focus on the ideological content of work--its explicit and implicit assumptions and values about matters such as culture, race, class, and power. |
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| Aporias and lacuna; logical loose ends and inconsistencies. |
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| Analysis concerned with the person of behavior of characters or authors. |
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| Focus on analysis of the literary text itself without reference to extrinsic concerns. |
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| Analysis of literary texts with reference to a wide variety of kinds of texts, especially non-literary texts. |
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