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What do you mean by literary theory?
“Literary theory” is the body of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature. By literary theory we refer not to the meaning of a work of literature but to the theories that reveal what literature can mean.
What are the 5 literary approaches?
Approaches to Literary Analysis
- Formalist. …
- New Historicist. …
- Psychoanalytic. …
- Feminist. …
- Marxist. …
- Queer. …
- Reader-Response.
What is literary theory and why is it important?
Literary theory consists of various principles, beliefs and underlying ideas that are used to understand and analyze different pieces of texts in literature. An interesting way to view literary theory is by considering theories as tools.
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