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Match the literary theory or criticism with the correct definition. L'The strategy draws on Freud's theories and other APsychological Stragegies psychoanalytic theories to understand more fully the text, the writer, and the reader. Critics use such approaches to explore the motivations of characters c and the symbolic meanings of events. It is a strategy based heavily on the idea of the existence of a human D unconscious-impulses, desires, and feelings that a rson is unaware of but that influence emotions and behavior Gender criticism Reader-response criticism Based on the writings of Karl Marx. Focuses on the ideological content of a work-its explicit and implicit assumptions and values about matters such as culture, race, class, and power. It is also used to describe the socioeconomic interests Explores how ideas about men and women - what is masculine and feminine -can be regarded as socially constructed by particular cultures. According to some critics, sex is determined by simple biological and anatomical categories of male or female, and gender is determined by a culture's values. it also expands categories and definitions of what is masculine or feminine and tends to regard sexuality as more complex than merely masculine or feminine heterosexual or homosexual. It has come to include gay and lesbian criticism as well. focuses its attention on the reader rather than the work itself. Describes what goes on in the reader's mind during the process of reading a text. The text remains the same, the readers do not. social and cultural values influence readings. By imagining different readers, we can imagine a variety of responses to the story that are influenced by the readers' own impressions, memories or experiences

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* Literary theory or criticism with the correct definition.

A) Psychological strategies - The strategy draws on freud's theories and

    other psychoanalytic theories to understand more fully the text,the writer

    and the reader.critics use such approaches to explore the motivation of

    characters and the symbolic meaning of events.it is a strategy based heavily

    on the idea of the existence of a human unconsious-impulses,desiress and

    feeling that a person is unaware of but that influence emotions and behavior.

B) Maxists criticism - Based on the writing of Karl max focus on the ideology

    content of a work,it explict and implicit assumptions and values about matters

    such as culture,race,class and power,it is also used to describe the socioeconomic

interests.

C) Gender criticism - Explore how ideas about men and women what is masculine and

feminine- can be regard as socially constructed by particular cultures.according to

    some critics,sex is determined by some biological and anatomical categories of male

    or female and gender is determined by cultural value's.it also expands categories and

    definitions of what a masculine or feminine and tend to regard to sexuality as more complex

    than merely masculine or feminine,heterosexual and homosexual.

D) Reader-response criticism - Focuses it's attention on the reader than the work itself

    describes what goes on in the reader's mind during the process of reading a text.the

    text remain the same,the readers do not social and cultural values influence readings

    by imaging different readers,we can imagine a variety of response to the story that are

    influenced by the readers own impressions,memories or experiences.