While practical reading of literature, literary theory is the method and tool of understanding the literature properly.
Here are the 3 main points of 5 important literary theories which are mentioned below:
1. Formalism or Russian Formalism: *analyses the structure and literary device.
*no necessity of historical background.
*also known as stylistic approach.
2. New Criticism: *close reading of the text.
*diverse meaning, not surface meaning.
*no need for any historical background.
3. Structuralism: *it is the linguistic interpretation of the text.
*things can not be understood in isolation.
*understand the text through the larger context.
4. Post-structuralism: *rebellion against structuralism.
*text understood by isolation.
*not going through the broaden sense of the meaning of texts.
5. Deconstruction: *multiple layers of meaning.
*self-contradictory literary work.
*applied form of post-structuralism and introduced by Roland Barthes.
Fariha Chowdhury
191-10-1952
Batch: 46
Section: C