LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Reject all previous modes of literary theory
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Focus on a return to traditional critical methods
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Make use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories
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Work only with ideas developed by post-Marxist theorists
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Detailed explanation-1: -Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics. Russian Formalism/Prague Linguistic Circle/Linguistic Criticism/Dialogism. Avant-Garde/Surrealism/Dadaism. Structuralism and Semiotics.
Detailed explanation-2: -Literary criticism is concerned with how characters in a text act, while literary theory is concerned with why characters act.
Detailed explanation-3: -Formalism and New Criticism “Formalism” is, as the name implies, an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text.
Detailed explanation-4: -There are four major critical theories in literature which are Mimetic theory, Pragmatic theory, Expressive theory and finally Objective theory. All of these critical theories are different in their own ways.