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Critical approaches to literature reveal how or why a particular work is constructed and what its social and cultural implications are. Understanding critical perspectives will help you to see and appreciate a literary work as a multilayered construct of meaning. Reading literary criticism will inspire you to reread, rethink, and respond. Soon you will be a full participant in an endless and enriching conversation about literature.
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For definitions of critical approaches, click on one of the choices to the left. Accompanying many of the definitions are essays demonstrating how to write about a poem from that particular critical approach.
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Contributing authors:
Andrea Kaston, Eastern Michigan University
Michelle Ephraim, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Ross Murfin, Southern Methodist University
Supriya M. Ray
Margaret Wald
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