Literature

Created: 2022-12-27
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What is Literature?

Literature is a form of communication, often in the form of Prose, poetry, or Drama, that conveys ideas and emotions through the use of language.

It can be seen as an expression of culture and has been around since ancient times.

Literature is one of the most powerful tools for understanding the human condition and its many facets.

Structuralism::: This theory of literature focuses on the structure of language and the way in which it conveys meaning. It pays particular attention to how words are arranged to create certain effects. #flashcards/literature

Deconstruction (literature) ::: This theory emphasizes the ambiguity and multifaceted nature of language and literature, exploring how different interpretations can be drawn from a single work.

Psychoanalytic theory:: This approach examines how literature reflects or affects our unconscious desires and motivations.
Postmodernism (literature) ::: This theory is concerned with how literature challenges traditional ideas about society, history, and culture by using irony, parody, and other literary devices to explore power dynamics between groups.

Feminism: This approach looks at how gender roles are portrayed in literature and how they reflect or challenge existing social norms.
New Historicism:: This theory examines the influence of history on literature, focusing on how works reflect or challenge existing power structures in society.

Friedrich Nietzsche: Nietzsche was a German philosopher who wrote extensively about literature and his own philosophical ideas.
T.S. Eliot: Eliot was an American-born poet, critic, and essayist whose work greatly influenced modern literary criticism.
Roland Barthes: Barthes was a French literary theorist whose ideas about semiotics and structuralism have had a profound impact on modern literary criticism.
Jacques Derrida: Derrida was a French philosopher who developed the theory of Deconstruction, which has had a major influence on literary criticism in the last few decades.
Simone de Beauvoir: Beauvoir was a French feminist philosopher whose works have helped shape modern feminist theories of literature.

Homi K. Bhabha: Bhabha is an Indian-born literary theorist whose work has focused on postcolonial theory and cultural studies.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Spivak is an Indian literary theorist who has written extensively on postcolonialism, feminism, and deconstruction.
Edward Said: Said was a Palestinian-American literary critic who wrote extensively on colonialism and its effects on literature.
Ruth Franklin: Franklin is an American literary critic who has written about literature from a feminist perspective, focusing on the works of female authors and their relationships with power structures in society.
Jed Esty: Esty is an American professor of English whose work focuses on the Intersection of literature and politics in the modern world.