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Analyzing A Text Using Moralism

This document provides an overview of moralist literary criticism and reader response criticism. Moralist criticism examines how a text addresses moral issues and reinforces traditional values like courage and honesty. It focuses on the core conflict and climax to see if the work supports moral values. Reader response criticism considers how the reader's experiences and beliefs shape their interpretation of the text. When applying it, one reflects on how the text relates to them and whether it challenges or aligns with their worldview. The document concludes with a performance task to create a movie review poster applying these two approaches.

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Analyzing A Text Using Moralism

This document provides an overview of moralist literary criticism and reader response criticism. Moralist criticism examines how a text addresses moral issues and reinforces traditional values like courage and honesty. It focuses on the core conflict and climax to see if the work supports moral values. Reader response criticism considers how the reader's experiences and beliefs shape their interpretation of the text. When applying it, one reflects on how the text relates to them and whether it challenges or aligns with their worldview. The document concludes with a performance task to create a movie review poster applying these two approaches.

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LITERATURE:

BRIDGES TO OTHERS AND TO NATURE


LESSON 10
18th Century Philosophical Writing
ANALYZING A TEXT:
MORALIST
MORALIST CRITICISM

MORALIST LITERARY CRITICISM examines a work based on how it confronts


and addresses a moral issue.
MORALIST CRITICISM
• MORAL CRITICISM involves examining how a text deals with the issue at
its center.
• A literary text is expected to reinforce traditionally held moral values.
• Courage, maturity, sensitivity, honesty, and so on are all expected to be
upheld by the text, and literature that challenges or erodes these values
is less valued.
MORALIST CRITICISM
Moralist criticism weighs the text by these considerations:

1. Is a practical, moral, or ethical idea being presented?


2. How does the text play out given ethical principles?
3. Does the work seem to build a positive or negative influence on its
readers?
MORALIST CRITICISM
When reading a text from the moralist lens, it helps to focus on the text's
core conflict and its climax.

CONFLICT - usually puts a particular value to the test


CLIMAX - will either end up supporting the value or the idea it is in conflict
with
PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SELECTION TO THE READER
(Reader Response)

READER RESPONSE CRITICISM - leverages your own experiences, principles, and beliefs in

deciding what a text is saying.

** Lois Tyson notes that reader-response critics believe that a reader cannot be separated

from the experience of reading the text.


PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SELECTION TO THE READER
(Reader Response)

• Negotiating its content against the reader's existing schema to make

meaning.

• All this is in contrast to how other frameworks tend to view the reader

as using tools external to themselves, like the text's historical roots or its

structural basis, to make sense of the text.


PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SELECTION TO THE READER
(Reader Response)

In doing reader-response criticism, you may ask:


1. What does the text have to do with you, personally, including your past, present, and future?
2. Does the text reinforce or clash with your view of the world, and do you believe it is right or
wrong about that?
3. How were your views and opinions challenged by this text, if at all? Did you change any part of
them, or learn anything?
4. How does it portray, handle, and address things you consider to be important about the world?
5. What did the text do well and what did it do poorly? Was it an enjoyable text as a piece of
entertainment or work of art?
PERFORMANCE TASK #6 / PROJECT
Pick ONE movie from the three options: (1) The Help, (2) Hacksaw Ridge, (3) The Devil Wears
Prada. Using a POSTER on a white cartolina, create a movie review using the MORALIST
APPROACH and READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM. Make sure you discuss the moral dilemmas and
decisions made, and how they fit into the moral standards of society.

50 - Content (examples and analysis of moral values present)


30 - Creativity and Organization (poster)
20 - Mechanics

* Conduct your oral presentation in front of the class.

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