FORMALISM FEMINIST CRITICISM
It claims that literary works contain
intrinsic properties and treats each work
as a distinct work of art.
It posits, that the key to understanding a
text is through the text itself
READER RESPONSE CRITICISM
It concerned with the reviewer’s reaction as an
audience of a work.
It claims that the reader’s role cannot be separated
from the understanding of the work.
Readers are therefore not passive and distant, but
are active consumers of the material presented to
them.
Or a feminism focuses on how literature
presents women as subjects of socio-political,
psychological and economic oppression.
It reveals how aspects of our culture are
patriarchal
MARCIST CRITICISM
Concerned with the differences between
economic classes and implications of a capitalist
system, such as continuing conflicts between the
working class and the elite.
It attempts to reveal that the ultimate source of
people’s experience is the socioeconomic system.
 CRITICAL APPROACHES IN WRITING A
CRITIQUE

FORMALISM

READER RESPONSE
CRITICISM

FEMINIST CRITICISM

POST-MODERN POST-COLONIAL
MARXIST CRITICISM CRITICISM CRITICISM
STRUCTURALISM

PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORICAL
GENDER CRITICISM ECOCRITICISM
CRITICISM CRITICISM
 REACTION PAPER,
REVIEW AND A
CRITIQUE

These are specialized forms of writing in which a reviewer

or reader evaluates scholarly work, work of art, designs
and graphic designs The usual range in length is
250-750 words.

YOU SHOULD NOT CONNECT

THE WORD CRITIQUE TO
CYNICISM AND PESSIMISM.
They are not simply summaries but YOU SHOULD NOT RELY ON
are critical assessments, analyses or MERE OPINIONS;
evaluation of different works. RATHER, THEY USE BOTH
PROOFS AND LOGICAL
REASONING TO
SUBSTANTIATE THEIR