"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  --“Structuralism” and “Formalism” devoted their attention to matters of literary form  rather than social or historical content.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.

Faria Afroz Antora

ID: 191-10-1943

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