The document discusses different literary theories including formalism, which focuses on analyzing elements of form and style; reader-response theory, which emphasizes the reader's role in making meaning; and feminism, which examines literature through the lens of gender and power relations. It also outlines other approaches such as new criticism, structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxism, and postcolonialism - all of which provide different frameworks for interpreting and understanding literature.
The document discusses different literary theories including formalism, which focuses on analyzing elements of form and style; reader-response theory, which emphasizes the reader's role in making meaning; and feminism, which examines literature through the lens of gender and power relations. It also outlines other approaches such as new criticism, structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxism, and postcolonialism - all of which provide different frameworks for interpreting and understanding literature.
The document discusses different literary theories including formalism, which focuses on analyzing elements of form and style; reader-response theory, which emphasizes the reader's role in making meaning; and feminism, which examines literature through the lens of gender and power relations. It also outlines other approaches such as new criticism, structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxism, and postcolonialism - all of which provide different frameworks for interpreting and understanding literature.