LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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He considers it to be vital in order to understand literary texts.
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He considers theory to be the only way that literary texts can be interpreted.
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He has no misgivings about the practical usability of literary theory.
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He feels that literary theory is ultimately too limited in scope to serve as a proper method of interpretation.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Literary theory enables readers and critics a better understanding of literature through close readings and contextual insights.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Literary theory allows readers to consider aspects of a text, or film, or any part of culture in fact, to be read in an entirely different way to how they may have been thinking before. It therefore, prompts discussion on an author’s ideology and intentions, when they were writing.
Detailed explanation-4: -Literary criticism is the study, evaluation and interpretation of literature whereas literary theory is the different frameworks used to evaluate and interpret a particular work. This is the main difference between literary criticism and literary theory.