CM 1145-Critical Approaches

  Critical approaches, something we learned quite awhile ago this year, but I figured I would do an entry on it since I really have no idea what to write about right now. A critical approach is pretty much a way of analyzing a piece of literature and there are many different ways you can look at it. I am going to write about my favorite style of analysis based on the list that we got, the historical criticism. I know it makes me sound a bit stuffy and boring, as if I lack any portion of creativity. However, I do belive that it is very important to be historically accurate in a story if it takes place on our world at any time in the past or present, even stories that take place in the future, should have accurate references to the past. If the story took place on some distant world full of large sentient whales that live on land, then the history of that world is free to be manipulated by the writer since it has nothing to do with the real world ( by the way, I would definitely read that story). So that is pretty much my opinion on critical approaches, I know that this is a short entry but hey, they can be one liners if they make sense so I'll just leave off with the definition in my notebook of a historical analysis, " biographical criticism where you'd use history and biography to understand a work." Now try to make that about whales on land, I dare you.