Literary Approach

It sought to establish literary studies as an objective discipline

• Formalism or New Criticism

• Structuralism

• Deconstruction

• Marxism

• Feminism

Treats literature almost as if it were an organized, scientific body ofknowledge.

• Formalism or New Criticism

• Structuralism

• Deconstruction

• Marxism

• Feminism

An interpretative approach that emphasizes literary form and thestudy of the literary devices within the text

• Formalism or New Criticism

• Structuralism

• Deconstruction

• Marxism

• Feminism

This approach employs more of a reading strategy rather than a philosophy.

• Formalism or New Criticism

• Structuralism

• Deconstruction

• Marxism

• Feminism

An interpretative approach that emphasizes literary form and the

study of the literary devices within the text

• Formalism or New Criticism

• Structuralism

• Deconstruction

• Marxism

• Feminism

This approach employs more of a reading strategy rather than a philosophy.

• Post colonialism

• Structuralism

• Deconstruction

• Marxism

• Feminism

A science that seeks to understand how systems work.

• Post colonialism

• Structuralism

• Deconstruction

• Marxism

• Feminism

Is concerned with the role, position, and influence of women in a literary text.

• Post colonialism

• Structuralism

• Deconstruction

• Marxism

• Feminism

It asserts that most “literature” throughout time has been written by men, for men.

• Post colonialism

• Structuralism

• Deconstruction

• Marxism

• Feminism

Believes that the socioeconomic system not only determines who has the most power, but more so, how we are educated, and it influences our religious beliefs, which together control to a great degree how we perceive ourselves and the world.

• Post colonialism

• Structuralism

• Deconstruction

• Marxism

• Feminism