Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. structuralist / formalist
● Taken to include spoken or sung texts, it
2. Moralist
originated even earlier, and some of the
3. Marxist
first written works may have been based
4. Feminist
on a pre-existing oral tradition.
5. Historical
6. Reader - response
● One of the earliest known literary works
is the Sumerian/Babylonian Epic of
Gilgamesh around 210 B.C.
Defining literature
a. structuralist /formalist
b. Moralist
c. Feminist
d. Marxist
e. Historical
f. Reader-response