Humanist literary theory
Emotional connections and how the reader relates
Cultural role
Formalism :
a source of knowledge about history and fact
Beliefs
reflect the real world, explaining the important historical events in a more acceptable manner than full history
Ideas
Structuralism
Deconstruction
focus upon explaining about the system
Focuses on literary devices and the overall structure of the writing
Psychoanalysis
"Acts" the part society tells you to
Feminist Theory
Political focuses and influences
gender is a social construct made by society
There can be no truth in the system
Queer Theory
"Queer" = Anything that is different than the socially accepted "normal"
Without societal influence and manipulation people would be able to be their "true self."
Desires and Needs
Gender is a social construct put into a binary system
In a binary system, One side is seen as superior to the other. In many cases men are seen as superior
No thought on emotional influence to the reader
phenomenology
take desires that can’t be fulfilled, or shouldn’t be fulfilled, and turn their energy into something useful and productive.
All languages are made of units that combine according to rules to make meaning or sense.
ecocritism
ecocriticism
Biopolitics.
literary theories
does not focus on emotions only the overall structure of the writing
study of literature and the environment
environmental concerns
Analyze ways that texts treat the subject of nature.
intersectional field between human biology and politics
How human life processes are managed under authority.
processes of subjectification
focuses on format and literary ideas
a movement that is propelled more by ideology than methodology
Postcolonialism
Telling history from the view of the oppressed rather than the opressors
Looks at colonized people's perspectives
telling things from the mouths of those who never had their chance
The idea of the subaltern voice. It describes the voice of those people who are subordinate, who are non-white and who are non-western post-colonialists.
the solution to the light of the century