From the introductoy sessions, wetheorieaned a lot of theories i brief. Our course teacher introduced all thes theories to us in sucha way that we became very eager to learn all ofthese theories in detai.
Now I am going to mntion three main points relatedto the definition and characterstics of five important theorie.
• 1.Liberal Humanism:
a)Cnsider the significance of literatue as timeless.
b)Study the text inisolation.
c)Imply the ruling assumtions as well as class distinctions.
• 2.Deconstruction:
a)Thinking about thetext in a fragmented way as meaning is not constant.
b)Disagreeing with the existng norms and creating own meaning.
c)Sel-contradictory
• 3.Ecocriticism:
a)Questning the relationship between nature and litrature.
b)An earth centered approach to lierary study.
c)Influence of nature in the litrary text.
• 4.Feminist Criticism:
a)Concered with impact of gender on writing and reading
b)Desire for a new literary canon (not men
)Deals with conflicts between often dominate male ad inferior female in traditional literature
5.arxism:
a)Sees art and literature as forced by the cnditions that existed in history
b)Deals with clashbetween classes
c)Articulation of dominant class
Sayma Islam
191-10-1957