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Critical ApproachesHerein, we shall try to expand upon the various approaches to critizing a piece of literature so that those who wish to participate in this group will have a better understanding of the various angles they can look at a written piece.Critical Approaches
Biographical Criticism: Draws connections between the writer’s personal experience and his or her work. It is useful to know, for example, that the Communist government of Czechoslovakia arrested Vaclav Havel in the 1960s for writing subversive plays like Protest.
Formalist Criticism : Focuses on the internal structure of the work itself, excluding all other factors such as
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Example CritThe Awakening by Kate Chopin is one of many extremely important pieces of literature in American history. Whether or not you enjoy the story itself or any of Chopin's writing for that fact the context in which it was written and the hatred and criticism that Chopin faced for the novel was astronomical. Even other American Realists (mostly male) criticized her even though she was standing for the very ignorance about reality that the Realists fought against. Female infidelity was not a completely alien subject but such characters like Chopin's Edna were always written as despicable beings whereas Edna and her actions were shown in an objectiveExample Crit
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