LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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the text
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the rhetorical triangle
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the reader and the author
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A critical theory is any approach to social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to reveal, critique and challenge power structures. With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from social structures and cultural assumptions than from individuals.
Detailed explanation-2: -What are the different literary theories? Traditional, Formalism/ New Criticism, Structuralism/ Poststructuralism, New Historicism, Marxism, Post-Colonialism, and Gender Studies/Queer Theory are some of the most common literary theories. A critic may use one or more theories to analyza literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -To analyze one literary work, more than one approach can be applied. This article is an example of analyzing a poem, Mattew Arnold’s Dover Beach from three different critical positions, the formalist, the sociological, and psychoanalytical.
Detailed explanation-4: -Historical-Biographical. This approach sees a literary work as a reflection of the author’s life and times or the life and times of the characters in the work. Moral-Philosophical. Formalistic Criticism.