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Title: Notes on Literary Theories
Description: Descriptions and histories of liberal humanism, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, feminism and Marxism.
Description: Descriptions and histories of liberal humanism, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, feminism and Marxism.
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Literary Theory
Liberal Humanism
Human nature, which literature represents, is essentially unchanging
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Literary Critic I
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Richards (1929-)
Precise readings in isolation from context
Structuralism (France 1950s-)
Things cannot be understood in isolation
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Language is relational: chain of dwellings
There is no truth only a choice of words
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Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-)
Interpretation of myth
The parole can be better understood in the context of the langue
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Post Structuralism (France 1960s-)
The decentred universe without fixed linguistic landmarks
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Decentring of the intellectual cosmos after an ‘event’
‘There is nothing outside of the text’
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Language commands meaning as much as the writer
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(Reading the text against itself)
Process of identifying discrepancies, contrast and contradiction in a text
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1980s: the reassessment of the canon to include more literature written by women
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Language
Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, suggests that language is gendered
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Psychoanalysis
Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics condemns Freud for patriarchal bias
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Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar discuss the ‘social castration’ of women
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Marx and Engels
The Communist Manifesto 1848 detailing their aims to bring about a classless society
Title: Notes on Literary Theories
Description: Descriptions and histories of liberal humanism, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, feminism and Marxism.
Description: Descriptions and histories of liberal humanism, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, feminism and Marxism.