Leaming Task 3: Classify the type of critical writing approach which is being Identified in the following statement. Refer to the choices below


Reader Response Criticism

Psychological/Psychoanalytic

Sociological Criticism

Marxist Criticism

Formalist Criticism

Biographical Criticism

Feminist/Gender Criticism

Historical Criticism


1. A primary goal: to determine how such elements work together with the text's content to shape its effects upon readers
2. Literature is written by actual people and that understanding an author's life can help readers more thoroughly comprehend the work
3. This seeks to understand a literary work by investigating the social cultural, and intellectual context that producedit-a context that necessarily includes the artist's biography and milieu
4. Examines how sexual identity influences the creation and reception of literary works 5. It reflects the effect that modern psychology has had upon both literature and literary criticism
6. This approach examines literature in the cultural, economic and political context in which it is written or received, exploring the relationships between the artist and society
7. Focuses on the economic and political elements of art, often emphasizing the ideological content of literature
8. This approach takes as a fundamental tenet that literature" exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader​