Ideological Criticism: An area of television criticism, concerned with class and gender representation, that studies society's competing discourses and the position of the individual within society.

 

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Ideological Criticism: An area of television criticism, concerned with class and gender representation, that studies society's competing discourses and the position of the individual within society.

Textual Criticism: The collection, comparison, and collating of all textual variants in order to reconstruct or recreate a single authoritative text--especially one that reflects authorial intention.

Typological Criticism: A type of literary analysis of medieval or patristic texts in which critics read characters, objects, or events according to established interpretations of similar characters, objects, or ev . . . View Full Definition

Television Criticism: Non-empirical, analytical methods (e.g., auteurism, genre study, semiotics and feminism) employed to understand systems of meaning on television. The term is also used in the popular press t . . . View Full Definition

Archetypal Criticism: The analysis of a piece of literature through the examination of archetypes and archetypal patterns in Jungian psychology. See archetype below.

Freudian Criticism: A psychoanalytical approach to literature that seeks to understand the elements of a story or character in a story by applying the tripartite model of the psyche developed by the late ninete . . . View Full Definition

Exegetical Criticism: Another term for Robertsonian criticism of medieval literature. See discussion under fourfold interpretation.