February 22, 2013Mr. Houghteling

“It’s a Flunked-Out Friday, and because it’s Friday, you

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AP Literature and Composition

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AGENDA

Literary Criticisms Review The Catcher in the Rye

•FOCUSIdiosyncrasies of languageIdentifying the speakerEXPOSITION: Setting, Conflict, Plot

“The Sick Rose”

O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

Literary Criticisms Review

1. _______ An analysis of a text that includes a person’s social class as means of characterization.

MARXIST CRITICISM

2. _______ A discussion of Sula in which the writer demonstrates the lack of positive male characters in the novel.

GENDER CRITICISM

Literary Criticisms Review3. _______ A character’s political

ideology is proven to be linked to financial prosperity.

MARXIST CRITICISM

4. _______ The identification of Sula’s birthmark as being a “copperhead” or “snake.”

ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM

“The Sick Rose”

O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

Literary Criticisms Review

5. _______ From William Blake’s “The Sick Rose,” the relationship between the red rose and the destructive, invisible worm can be interpreted as the destruction of a joyous love by deceit or jealousy.

ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM

Literary Criticisms Review6. _______ In “My Last Duchess” and

“Porphyria’s Lover,” the latter most especially, both speakers viewed their lovers as objects that needed to be controlled.

GENDER CRITICISM7. _______ A fundamental principle of this

criticism is exploring the relationships between “The Haves” and “The Have-nots.”

MARXIST CRITICISM

The Catcher in the Rye

Read Chapters 1-4 (page 35). Reading Journal

• Two entries per day. Consider: Questions you may have. Interesting plot developments. Interpretation of characterization. Interpretation of author’s style. Quotation analysis.

Gender Critical Perspective Gender interpretation focuses on relationships between genders, including patterns of thought, behavior, and power in relations between and within the sexes.

For example, a gender reading of Cinderella may take into account the idea of power relationships between the men and women of the novel.

Myth and Archetype

“The myth critic is concerned to seek out those mysterious elements that inform certain literary works and that elicit, with almost uncanny force, dramatic and universal human reactions” (Campbell, The Masks of God).

Marxist CriticismMarxist criticism asserts that economics provides the foundation for all social, political, and ideological reality. Examining social groups and their influences is one of the most accessible ways to use Marxist criticism.

(the Haves vs. Have-nots)

The Catcher in the Rye—HOMEWORK

Read Chapters 1-4 (page 35). Reading Journal

• Two entries per chapter—You’ll have a total of 8 due by Monday. Consider: Questions you may have. Interesting plot developments. Characterization. Interpretation of author’s style. Quotation analysis.