Throughout the introductory lesson, I have learned basic
concept of literature and literary theory and characteristics of them and its
outcomes as well as. I have learnt the definition of theory and literary
theory. And I came to know about some theories related to literature.
Here, I am writing about 5 literary theories
1.
Liberal humanism proposes that the subject is
the free, unconstrained author of meaning and action, the origin of history.
Unified, knowing, and autonomous, the human being seeks a political system
which guarantees freedom of choice.
2.
Formalism is a school of literary criticism and
literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular
text. It is the study of a text without taking into account any outside
influence.
3.
New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary
theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the
20th century. It emphasized close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover
how a work of literature functioned as a self-contained, self-referential
aesthetic object.
4.
structuralism is a general theory of culture and
methodology that implies that elements of human culture must be understood by
way of their relationship to a broader system.
5.
Post-structuralism is a term for philosophical,
theoretical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas
established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it.