21st Century

2. An approach where the reader may study the author's life, time and culture to better understand the author's work.
4. refer to the sum of total of the world's national literatures but usually it refers to the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin.
7. this period is the rebirth of the humanistic spirit of classical antiquity.
8. refers to the individual's way of reading a literary text.
9. also known as Formalist criticism.
11. is based on the linguistics theories of Ferdinand Saussure and cultural theories of Claude and Levi-Strauss.
13. it is the period where the writer expresses his feelings. He is imaginative, adventurous and sentimental.
16. examines the culture and society from which literature is produced, and how these influences affect literature.
17. a theory based on the classical Aristotelian idea that literature imitates or reflects the real world or the world of ideal concepts of things from which subjects of literature is derived.
19. this period is divided into the propaganda and the revolution.
20. the literary scene during this era was focused on religious themes due to the Christianization of the Philippines by the Spaniards.

1. explains a work of fiction, poetry or drama by means of interpretations. It's goal is to broaden and deepen your understanding of work of literature.
3. a criticism that has the longest history being a 20th century phenomenon. It argues that literature is a product of real, social and economic existence.
5. Effective or pragmatic theory.
6. was initiated by Jacques Derrida in the late 1960's.
10. a theory which holds that the author is the sole source of meaning.
12. in literature, this term may be applied to any writing that seeks to portray life exactly as it is, without embellishments or idealization.
14. It is an approach where a reader may analyze a work of literature as complete in itself without relating to it the outside of the world.
15. is a pre-hispanic epic poem of the ilocano people of the Philippines.
18. a type of writing that shows restraint, careful planning a deep respect for the past.