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    This document distinguishes between literary criticism and literary theory. Literary criticism involves analyzing textual elements like plot, grammar, and rhetoric to understand and evaluate a work, while literary theory examines the underlying principles, conditions, and contexts that influence a work's production and reception. Literary criticism aims to reduce the gap between text and reader through qualitative judgment, whereas literary theory provides frameworks to read texts in different ways and understand how meaning is constructed. The document then lists examples of linguistic, interactional, socio-political, cultural, and ideological theories.

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    HS5680 Contemporary Literary Theory

    Course TA: Arindam Nandi

    Literary Criticism and Literary Theory: How to Distinguish?

    What is??? — Literary Criticism involves the study of textual elements and functions (parts

    of speech, rhetorical devices, plot, grammar, syntax, dialogue) through which a literary work can

    be evaluated and understood, whereas Literary Theory is the re-focusing on the conditions,

    circumstances, and underlying principles (linguistic/structural, interactive, socio-political,

    cultural, and ideological) under which a literary work is produced and received.

    What do they do??? — Literary Criticism attempts to discover the inherent meaning of a

    work by reducing the gap between the text and the reader conferring qualitative judgment in the

    process, while Literary Theory provides strategies and frameworks through which a text can be

    read (in different ways) and therefore explicates how its meaning produced and constructed

    post hoc.

    Linguistic/Formal Theories – Russian Formalism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Genre

    Criticism

    Interaction Theories – Reader-Response theory, Theory of Textuality, "Death of Author" theories


    Socio-Political Theories – New Historicism, Discourse Studies, The Frankfurt School

    Cultural Theories – Theories of Myth, Media theory, Cultural Materialism, Gender Theory

    Theories of Ideology – Marxism, Feminism, Eco-Criticism

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