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Theories of Literary Criticism - Coggle Diagram
Theories of Literary Criticism
Structuralism
There is center and periphery.
There is a sign. Sign can be understood used signifier, and signified.
World works in binaries.
Post-Structuralism
The center is not fixed. It keeps on moving.
The idea of binaries gets questioned here.
Freudian Theories
The center is the phallic symbol
Men have castration anxiety, and women have penis envy.
Women cannot be the center.
Heavily criticsed
Feminist Criticism
arose as criticism to Freudian theory.
questioned the idea of men as the center.
questioned the language used as being patriarchal.
wanted to change that
Levi Strauss
is an important theorist
studied myths and came up with binaries on that
Lacan
becomes an important theorist who elaborated more on the original theory
Again was criticised
Feminist criticised
Misogynist
Basic theory
Hence important
