"Literary theory” is the body of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature.
Marxism :
--theories tend to focus on the representation of class conflict.
--use traditional techniques of literary analysis.
--champion authors sympathetic to the working classes.
Structuralism:
--Structuralism” can be viewed as an extension of “Formalism”
--“Structuralism” and “Formalism” devoted their attention to matters of literary form rather than social or historical content.
-- relied initially on the ideas of the Swiss linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure.
New historicism:
--a term coined by Stephen Greenblatt
--designates a body of theoretical and interpretive practices.
-- “New Historicism” in America had been somewhat anticipated by the theorists of “Cultural Materialism” in Britain.
Mordernism:
--It is regarded as a cultural movement of the late 19th century to the mid-20th century.
-- Rebels against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse
--Modernism mourns the loss of tradition and fragmentation.
Feminism:
--Concerned with impact of gender on reading and writing.
-- Desires for a new literary canon.
-- Deals with female affairs.
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