1) Liberal Humanism
• Good literature is timeless, transcendent and speaks to what is constant in human nature.
• Human nature unchanging—continuity valued over innovation.
• Purpose of literature to enhance life in a non-programmatic way.
• Form and content fused organically in literature.
2) Formalism
• In formalism the text is perceived as “Art” and the autonomy of the text is advocated.
• Formalism is important to designers because it creates a style in which designers can produce their work.
• Formalism may be defined as a critical approach in which the text under discussion is considered primarily as a structure of words.
3) Structuralism
• There is a structure in every system.
• The structure is what determines the position of each element of a whole.
• Coexistence, not change, is the focus of "structural laws."
• Structures are the "real things" that lie beneath the surface or the appearance of meaning.
4) Modernism
• Modernism is marked by a strong and intentional break with tradition.
• Modernism believe that the world is created in the act of perceiving it; that is, the world is what we say it is.
• It says, there is no such thing as absolute truth. All things are relative.
• According to Modernism, life is unordered.
5) Deconstruction
• Deconstruction is usually given through a close examination of a certain text.
• Deconstruction has at least two aspects: literary and philosophical.
• Deconstruction has had an enormous influence in psychology, literary theory, cultural studies, linguistics, feminism, sociology and anthropology.
Hamida Akter Mira
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