Demi Lovato - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Revised w/ Lyrics)

Oh yeah, mmm
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on your troubles will be out of sight, yeah

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on your troubles will be miles away, oh

Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore, ah
Faithful friends who are dear to us
They gather near to us once more, ooh

Through the years we all will be together and
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If the fates allow
Hang a shining star upon the highest bow, oh yeah, oh
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now, oh, oh

Faithful friends who are dear to us
They gather near to us once more, oh, oh

Through the years we all will be together and
If the fates allow, oh yeah
But 'til then we'll have to muddle through somehow, oh yeah, oh, oh
And have yourself a merry little Christmas now, ooh yeah, oh, ooh

ENG53 Children's Literature

LITERARY CRITICISM

TYPES:

Formal Criticism - assumes that the important thing is the text-and text alone.

* Makes considerable use of the terminology we have just examined, and formal criticism prefers to categorize literature into kinds or genres-much like this book does.

* Would look for the essential unity of the text, perhaps focusing on the rising and falling dramatic action and the bldg. of suspense in the children's overhearing their parents plotting.

* The strength of formal criticism is that it causes us to read the literature carefully & thoughtfully.

Archetypal Criticism - The psychologist and physician Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) believed in a collective unconscious that lay deep within all of us and contained the “cumulative knowledge, experiences, and images of the entire human race.”

* Depends heavily on symbols, and patterns operating on a universal scale.

* The Hero with a Thousand Faces - explores patterns in his book.

* Allows us to see the larger patterns of literature, although it tends to ignore the individual contributions of the author and specific cultural and societal influences.

Historical Criticism - examines the culture and the society from which a literary work came and how these influences affect the literature.

* Often overlooks the literary elements and structure as well as the author's individual contributions.

Psychoanalytical Criticism - The psychoanalytical reading of a text attempts to “offer maps to unconscious stages of psychic development.”

* Based on the work of Sigmund Freud in the early 20^th century, Psychoanalytical Criticism attempts to explain the reasons for human actions.

* Psychoanalytic critic sees a work of literature as the outward expression of an author's unconscious mind, and it becomes the reader's or critic's task to discover the author's hidden fears, desires, and motivations.

* This type of criticism can coexist comfortably with other types

* The most famous modern example in children's literature of psychoanalytical reading is Bruno Bettelheim's study of folktales.

Feminist Criticism - an offspring of the feminist movement of the mid-twentieth century

* It's focus of how gender affects literary work, writer, or reader.

* A major concern of feminist criticism is the masculine bias in literature.

* The feminist looks for the presence of females’ stereotypes, for example, the woman as the dark-haired, sensuous submissive femine fatale, or as the fair-haired, vaginal, plaster saint.

* To challenge the way we have traditionally read literature & that is from the point of view of a male-dominated society. The feminist critic believes that, in the words of Simon de Beauvior, “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” Or another critic says: “Feminists do not deny that women exhibit group characteristics. However, they do not accept the thesis that similarities in female behavior are biologically determined.”

* Feminist Criticism therefore ultimately becomes cultural criticism

Reported by: Melanie Bernadette Borja

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