1. Formalism
• It is an
interpretive approach which emphasizes literary form and literary devices
within the text.
• It is
designated to indicate a break with traditional method.
• It is an
interpretive tool that help us think more deeply and insightfully about
literature while we read something.
2. Structuralism
• It is an
approach which analyzes the narrative material by examining the underlying
invariant structure
• It
mainly focuses on the conditions that make meaning possible rather than the
meaning itself.
• It seeks
out the basic deep elements in stories and myths.
3. Liberal Humanism
• It is a
literary theory that was popular at the end of the 1800 and the beginning of
the 1900.
• It
reveals a constant or universal truth about humanity.
• It
understands literature to be timeless.
4. Deconstruction
• It
multiples meanings indefinitely.
• It may
show us how a text can be misread and what is excluded or suppressed in a text.
• It seems
ridiculous but actually can create more creative and careful writer and reader.
5. New Historicism
• It
influences the readers by their culture, so no objective reading of a work is
possible.
• If
affects their interpretation of the historical influence on a work.
•
Prevailing social mores and political ideologies to infer the societal
elements, it influences the author in the creation of work.
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