1. Literary Theory
"Literary theory" is the body of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature
It formulates the relationship between author and work;
It develops the significance of race, class, and gender for literary study.
Literary theory offers different approaches for understanding the role of historical context in interpretation as well as the relevance of linguistic and unconscious elements of the text

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principles derived from internal analysis of literary texts or from knowledge external to the text that can be applied in multiple interpretive situations.
Chinua Achebe --perspective informed by a postcolonial literary theory (exploitation and racism)

3. Literary Theory Nineteenth century
Germany: "higher criticism” or "source criticism"
Friedrich Nietzsche:
France: Charles Augustin Saint Beuve
Marcel Proust

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Thea “a view” + horan “to see”

5. Literary Theory Twentieth century Traditional Literary Criticism
Formalism (russian formalist critic Roman Jacobson) ,
New Criticism

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Marxism and Critical Theory. The Frankfurt School (Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin)
UK:Raymond Williams (Cultural Materialism and Cultural Studies Movement), Terry Eagleton
USA Frank Lentricchia, Fredric Jameson

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Structuralism (Ferdinand de Saussure . Signifier/signified), Barthes
Poststructuralism, Barthes
Deconstruction, Reader-response criticism, gender theory,
Michel Foucault

8. Literary Theory New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
Stephen Greenblatt

9. Literary Theory Postcolonial Studies Edward Said Orientalism
Homi Bhabha
Gayatry Spivak

10. Literary Theory Gender Studies Feminist theory
Elaine Showalter Gynocriticism
Judith Butler
Men’s Movement
Queer theory

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Cultural Studies
Stuart Hall
Tony Bennett
Simon During

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