Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Since the 19th century, literary scholarship...

In literary theory, a text is any object that can be "read", whether this object is a work of literature, a street sign, an arrangement of buildings on...

by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's goals and methods. Although the two activities are closely related, literary critics...

Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (4th rev. ed.). Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-20271-4. Eagleton, Terry (2008). Literary Theory: An Introduction...

Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or more broadly, by the politics of feminism. It uses the principles and...

Literary Theory: An Introduction is a 1983 book by Terry Eagleton that overviews and responds to modern literary theory. Kendrick, Walter (September 4...

Marxist literary criticism is a theory of literary criticism based on the historical materialism developed by philosopher and economist Karl Marx. Marxist...

liberation. Critical theory finds applications in various fields of study, including psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory, cultural studies, history...

A literary genre is a category of literature. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction). They generally...

Reception theory is a version of reader response literary theory that emphasizes each particular reader's reception or interpretation in making meaning...

role in the work of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes. In his 1973 literary theory book The Pleasure of the Text, Barthes divides the effects of texts...

Psychoanalytic literary criticism is literary criticism or literary theory that, in method, concept, or form, is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis...

In literary theory, literariness is the organisation of language which through special linguistic and formal properties distinguishes literary texts from...

habitus may be employed in literary theory in order to understand those larger, external structures which influence individual theories and works of literature...

Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics. Semiotics...

affect theory has been taken up in psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, medicine, interpersonal communication, literary theory, critical theory, media...

Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of a...

as political speeches. Other critiques of literary theory in narrative challenge the very role of literariness in narrative, as well as the role of narrative...

1967. Cuddon, J. A. Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory. London: Penguin, 1998. Eagleton, T. Literary theory: an introduction Basil Blackwell...

disciplines interrelate. Although some branches of film theory are derived from linguistics and literary theory, it also originated and overlaps with the philosophy...

meaning of fiction is called literary theory, and the narrower interpretation of specific fictional texts is called literary criticism (with subsets like...

theory, and can be thought of as the axioms of that field. Some commonly known examples include set theory and number theory; however literary theory...

disciplines beyond linguistics, including philosophy, anthropology, and literary theory. Jakobson was a decisive influence on anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss...

and subjectivity Sex–gender distinction Social theory – Literary theory – Thing theory – Critical theory of technology – Critical legal studies – Hermeneutics...

pseudosciences, such as phrenology and physiognomy. Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The...

rhetoric, literary theory, cultural studies, communication studies and network science depending on the phenomena they seek to explain. Audience theories can...

literary and film studies (in the forms of cognitive literary theory (as proposed by Mary Thomas Crane and Alan Richardson) and cognitive film theory...

their dislike of genre fiction. Aesthetic judgment Literary criticism Literary genre Literary theory A Reader's Manifesto Pop culture fiction - literature...

of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that...

Preston, C. E. (1998). "Trope". The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (4th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 948. ISBN 9780140513639. "What...