What We Do. The Department of Health and Human Services manages the delivery of health- and human-related services for all North Carolinians, especially our most vulnerable citizens â children, elderly, disabled and low-income families.
Literary theory is largely absent from high school English courses. While virtually all. high school students read and respond to literature, few are given opportunities to analyze. the works they read using established, critical methods. This curriculum unit will. introduce high school students to four critical approaches, and it will ask students to. apply each approach to selected works of childrenâs literature. Four methods of literary criticism - feminism, Marxism, post-colonial criticism, and. reader-centered criticism â are especially useful in understanding the wide variety of texts. students study in high school and college English courses.
Rick Altman calls this approach to genre criticism the semantic approachâa focus on the more superficial aspects of films that fit into a given genre. A semantic examination would point out the character types, aesthetics, plot lines, etc., which are common to the films. I will conduct just such an examination of the subculture genre in the next section. But this kind of examination falls far short of criticism or analysis.