Presentation Assignment: Defining Characteristics of the Major "Schools" of Literary Criticism

In this Performance Assessment, you must create a PowerPoint of at least 20 slides demonstrating your understanding of the following schools of literary criticism: New Criticism/Formalism, Reader-Response, Feminism, and Marxism. In your PowerPoint, you must explain literary criticism and demonstrate your understand of the key characteristics of each. Include also the time period in which these schools developed and significant advocates of each one. Be creative-use pictures, timelines, interesting data etc. Include an additional Works Cited page for all resources used. The Works Cited (slide 21) should be formatted in MLA, and at least 5 sources should be used.