literary theory

• post colonial, the author and book?

  edward said and orientalism
• describe post colonial

  how western literature portrayed the eastern side of the world

  replace women from the feminism theory with racialized minorities

  sub other for subaltern
• reader response theory author

  Stanley fish and Louise Rosenblatt
• describe reader response theory

  a text without a reader is meaningless

  all about the readers reaction to the text

  connotation matters most
• New historicism author 


  Stephan Greenblatt
• new historicism describe it

  the opposite of formulism

  the text is the product of the culture it is produced in

  learn everything you can about the author and their surroundings to undersand the text as much as possible
• Marxist Criticism author and book


  Karl Marx, terry Eagleton and the communist manifesto
• describe Marxist Criticism


  proletarian is working class

  bourgeoise is the ruling class

  Karl wanted to kill the bourgeoise and replace society power structures with communism
• Formalism author and book

  Victor Shklovsky and the theory of prose
• describe formalism


  a text is not meant to be interpreted

  look at the combination of different components in isolation
• Feminist Theory authors and book

  Mary Wollstonecraft and the vindication of the rights of women

  Virgina Wolf, Elaine Showalter, Simone De Beauvoir
• describe feminism


  argued to be an equal

  wanted education and voting rights
• everyone has their own principles and morals

  hermeneutical principles
• implied assumptions of the author in the text

  hermeneutics of suspicion
• what are the six literary theorys?

  1. Formalism 2. readers response 3. Marxism 4. Feminism 5. New historism 6. Postcolonialism