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Humanities 420- Literary Theories
Terminal Course Objective Five (5):
Describe and apply several of the following critical approaches to literature: biographical, historical, psychological, formalist, structuralist, Marxist, post-structuralist.
Terminal Course Objective Six (6):
Explain the importance of archetypal images and motifs in literature.
For more in-depth information on the Major Critical Approaches to Literature that we need to
know for the class, you may visit some of the websites below.
WEB SITES
Introductory Sites on Literary Theory
More Scholarly Sites on Literary Theory
Sites on Specific Theories
Other Sites of Interest
These sites are not about literary theories or literary critics, but about individual authors, their works, or plots:
Theories to be familiar with for this class
The "New Criticism" (Formalism)
Myth Criticism (Archetypal Criticism)
Reader-Response Criticism
Structuralist Criticism/Semiotics
Deconstruction
Feminist Criticism
Leftist (Marxist) Criticism,(Political-Economic Criticism)
Historicism and New Historical Criticism
Psychoanalytic Criticism (Freudian)
Cultural Criticism
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