First
of all, this course is about "Literary Theory". This name itself is
showing the uniqueness and dissimilarity from other courses. As I am a student
of literature as far as I have read materials which was related to the history
of English literature. But this course is literally different from those
courses especially for the way of learning. As through these course I can
analyze the importance of literature and theory. I have already learned some
basic things about literary theory and connect between them. So now I would
like to choose any five literary theory and mention 3 three points about those
topic.
*Liberal Humanism
1. Liberal humanism is a literary theory that was popular at the end of the
1800’s and beginning 1900’s.
2. It understands literature, poetry to be timeless.
3. Look for the individual’s identity.
*Structuralism
1. Structuralism was concerned with identifying the units of conscious
experience.
2. Based on Wundt’s beginnings this focuses on the structure of the mind and
how it works.
3. Focus: Each thought is believed to come from an experience or thought about something
else.
*Feminist criticism
1. Feminist criticism is the literary analysis that arises from the perspective
of feminism or feminist theories.
2. Woman presented in literature by male writers from male point of view.
3. Woman presented in writing of female writers from female point of view.
4. Focus on analyzing gender equality and the promotion of women’s right.
*Postcolonialism
1. Postcolonialism refers that the
political or cultural condition of a former colony.
2. Postcolonialism examines how societies, government and peoples in the
formerly colonized regions of the world experience international relations.
3. It is also a set of theories regarding art and culture dealing to
colonialism problems.
*Ecocriticism
1. Ecocriticism is the study of the relationships between culture and the more
than human world.
2. It takes an Earth centered, ecological approach to cultural studies.
3. It gives importance to the relationship between human beings and nature,
how are human beings affecting nature and vice versa.
Thank You.
Shazzad (191-10-2013)
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