1) Learn and understand the critical framework you will be applying to a work
2) Read the work with the framework in mind
3) Write a critique based on that framework
If you hand in a paper on a completely made up framework that is
poorly defined, arbitrary and only exists in your head, then the paper deserves an F. This is called the "Make it up as you go along" critique.
The make it up as you go along technique is akin to writing up a lab without describing the procedures or recording the results. Then you draw conclusions from the procedure and results that exists only in your head. No one could reproduce it so no one can say you're wrong. You'd still get an F.
In writing, If you speak to the professor and say you have an idea for a new/unique style of literary critique and get permission to write up both a description of your technique, as well as a paper utilizing that technique, then you can get an A. Who knows, it depends on the class. The professor could very well say "This is an intro level class where you learn about existing techniques. Save inventing your own for a seminar or senior thesis."
But what the OP presented was not a scholarly approach to critique, but a snowflake "All ideas have equal value" approach.
Someone who has taken a literature class more recently feel free to correct me.
tl;dr Professors put a lot of thought into their academic work and pompous undergrads usually haven't learned enough to know what they don't know.
2) Read the work with the framework in mind
3) Write a critique based on that framework
If you hand in a paper on a completely made up framework that is poorly defined, arbitrary and only exists in your head, then the paper deserves an F. This is called the "Make it up as you go along" critique.
The make it up as you go along technique is akin to writing up a lab without describing the procedures or recording the results. Then you draw conclusions from the procedure and results that exists only in your head. No one could reproduce it so no one can say you're wrong. You'd still get an F.
In writing, If you speak to the professor and say you have an idea for a new/unique style of literary critique and get permission to write up both a description of your technique, as well as a paper utilizing that technique, then you can get an A. Who knows, it depends on the class. The professor could very well say "This is an intro level class where you learn about existing techniques. Save inventing your own for a seminar or senior thesis."
But what the OP presented was not a scholarly approach to critique, but a snowflake "All ideas have equal value" approach.
Someone who has taken a literature class more recently feel free to correct me.
tl;dr Professors put a lot of thought into their academic work and pompous undergrads usually haven't learned enough to know what they don't know.