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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
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
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.
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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