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10 Literary Theory English Literature was designed and be used during the second half of 19th century.

New Criticism Developed in the 1920s-30s and peaked in the 1940s-50s. the strategy was close reading, the meaning of the text were connected and cant analyzed separately. The destination of New Criticism was to make literary criticism scientific. In 1945, William K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley published a new critical essay entitled the international fallacy that argue the new critisism author in the analisys of literary. The second essay the affective fallacy also talked about personal or emotional rection to a literary as a valid means of analyzing text. I. A. Richards He was an English literary critic. His books, especially Principles of Literary Criticism (1924) and Practical Criticism (1929), it gives influences for the New Criticism. practical critisism as a beginning of medern literary critisism. Structualism structuralism appeared in academia in the second half of the 20th century and grew to become one of the most popular approaches in academic fields concerned with the analysis of language, culture, and society. Marxist literary criticism Marxist literary criticism is a loose term describing literary criticism based on socialist theory. Marxist criticism views literary works as reflections of the social institutions from which they originate. New Historicism New Historicism is a school of literary theory, developed in the 1980s. The aim is to understand the work through its historical context and to understand cultural and intellectual history through literature. Deconstruction Deconstruction is a term introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1967 book Of Grammatology. it refers to a process of exploring the categories and concepts that history and tradition has imposed or used on a word or a work. In describing deconstruction, Derrida famously observed that "there is nothing outside the text. There is no truly objective, non-textual reference from which interpretation can begin.

Post-structuralism The post-structuralist movement may be understood as a different responses to Structuralism. Structualism argued that human culture may be understood by means of a structure modelled after structural linguistics - that is different from organization of reality and the organization of ideas and imagination. Reader-response criticism Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader. modern readerresponse criticism began in the 1960s and '70s in america and germany. I.A Richard analyzed Reader-response theory recognizes the reader as anbactive agent who constitutes meaning to the work and completes its meaning through interpretation. Reader-response criticism vs. New Criticism It stands in total opposition, New Criticism had emphasized that only that which is within a text is part of the meaning of a text. Psychoanalytic criticism refers to literary criticism or literary theory which, in method, concept, or form, is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud. It has been practiced since the early development of psychoanalysis and has developed into a heterogeneous interpretive tradition. Ecocriticism is the study of literature and environment, using science and brainstorming possible solution. It designed as "green (cultural) studies", "ecopoetics", and "environmental literary criticism".

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