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5 Literary theories' characteristics & my thinking.

5 Literary theories' characteristics & my thinking.

by Mumtahina Mumu -
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*Colonialism*

1.The policy of controlling by one people or rules over areas, sometimes by establishing colonies and normally with the aim of economic dominance.

2. Its main intention is to exploit the target area for natural resources and get the profit of it by cheap labour.

3. Imposing the rules & regulation of the governing country over the indigenous people.


*Eco criticism *

1.The study of the relationship between literature & physical environment. 

2. It takes the earth as centered approach to literary study.

3. It asks us to examine ourselves and the world around us & critiquing the mannerism of society in the treatment of nature. 


*Structuralism*

1. Its a method of systematizing human experience that is used in many different fields of study.

2. It deals with linguistics, anthropology,  sociology & literary studies.

3. Its a literary theory which says that i can analyze a text through it comes to understand the larger structure such as the culture, the literary genre etc.


*Liberal humanism*

1. Based on the nature of man & its defects on the society. 

2. It reveals a constant or universal truth about humanity. 

3. It beliefs that the world can be controlled & ordered.


*Feminist criticism*

1. Its based on feminist theory. The stereotypes thinking of gender discrimination in our society. 

2. Its aim is to reinterpret the old texts to establish the importance of womens writing to save it from being lost or ignored in the male dominated world.

3. It means how we reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social and psychological oppression of women in literature. 



Thank you 

Mumtahina Tabassum Mumu 

191-10-1982

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