ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Reader-Response – This approach takes as a fundamental idea that “literature” exists not as an artifact upon a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of a reader.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Formalism” is, as the name implies, an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text. The work of the Formalists had a general impact on later developments in “Structuralism” and other theories of narrative.

Detailed explanation-3: -Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are six approaches in the teaching of literature. They are the (1) Language-Based Approach, (2) Paraphrastic Approach, (3) Information-Based Approach, (4) Personal-Response Approach, (5) Moral-Philosophical Approach, and (6) Stylistic Approach.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ethical literary criticism is defined as a critical theory for reading, analyzing, and interpreting the ethical nature and function of literary works from the perspective of ethics.