Literary Criticism

My reflection:
Criticizing a literary work is not an easy thing to do. The term "to criticize" has negative connotation to everyone but I learned that it's not really negative at all. I also learned that there are steps in criticizing a literary work. In fact, there are also purposes of criticism. Here are the following purposes:(1)to help us resolve a difficulty in the reading, (2)to help us choose the better of two conflicting readings, and; (3)to enable us to form judgments about literature.
There are also different approaches of criticism like the Historical approach, Moral approach, Mimetic approach, Formalism, Psychological approach, Mythological, Feminist approach and reader response criticism.
These different approaches will really help us students to criticize literary works more easily and fairly.