What certain literary theory that you find very interesting and applicable in the way you analyze and critique a movie or a book?​

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Literary Theory

“Literary theory” is the body of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature. By literary theory we refer not to the meaning of a work of literature but to the theories that reveal what literature can mean. Literary theory is a description of the underlying principles, one might say the tools, by which we attempt to understand literature. All literary interpretation draws on a basis in theory but can serve as a justification for very different kinds of critical activity. It is literary theory that formulates the relationship between author and work; literary theory develops the significance of race, class, and gender for literary study, both from the standpoint of the biography of the author and an analysis of their thematic presence within texts. Literary theory offers varying approaches for understanding the role of historical context in interpretation as well as the relevance of linguistic and unconscious elements of the text. Literary theorists trace the history and evolution of the different genres—narrative, dramatic, lyric—in addition to the more recent emergence of the novel and the short story, while also investigating the importance of formal elements of literary structure. Lastly, literary theory in recent years has sought to explain the degree to which the text is more the product of a culture than an individual author and in turn how those texts help to create the culture.

Table of Contents

What Is Literary Theory?

Traditional Literary Criticism

Formalism and New Criticism

Marxism and Critical Theory

Structuralism and Poststructuralism

New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

Ethnic Studies and Postcolonial Criticism

Gender Studies and Queer Theory

Cultural Studies

References and Further Reading

General Works on Theory

Literary and Cultural Theory

1. What Is Literary Theory?

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