Throughout the introductory lesson, I have learned many basic concept of literature and literary theory and characteristics of them.Now i am telling about five theories. They are:
1.Liberal Humanism:
*It is based on the nature of man and its defects on the society.
* Its main focus on literature and the study of man is the speciality of liberal humanism.
2.Russian Formalism:
* It also use Literary devices
* focus on the study of poetic language
3.New criticism :
*literature as an aesthetic object independent of historical context
*like the French pedagogical precept
4.Structuralism:
*The structure is what determines the position of each element of a whole.
* Analyse a text relating it to some larger containing structure
5.Modernism:
*It reflects a sense of cultural crisis
*knowledge is not absolute
Fatema Jui
191-10-1889
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