ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of a text without taking into account any outside influence.

Detailed explanation-2: -Marxist literary theories tend to focus on the representation of class conflict as well as the reinforcement of class distinctions through the medium of literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -Post-colonialism: The principal aim of post-colonial literary studies is to examine how the exploitation of indigenous civilizations by the Western imperial powers (mainly the US and UK) affected the literature from both the colonizing and the colonized nations.

Detailed explanation-4: -Psychoanalytic criticism: Using Sigmund Freud’s principles of psychoanalysis-like dream interpretation-psychoanalytic criticism looks to the neuroses and psychological states of characters in literature to interpret a text’s meaning.