LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Psychoanalytic theory
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Feminist theory
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Ethnic criticism
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The idea of ‘otherness’ is central to sociological analyses of how majority and minority identities are constructed. This is because the representation of different groups within any given society is controlled by groups that have greater political power.
Detailed explanation-2: -2. Definitions. Otherness is the result of a discursive process by which a dominant in-group (“Us, ” the Self) constructs one or many dominated out-groups (“Them, ” Other) by stigmatizing a difference – real or imagined – presented as a negation of identity and thus a motive for potential discrimination.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.