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Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis.[1] Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, moral philosophy, social philosophy, and interdisciplinary themes relevant to how people interpret meaning.[1] In the humanities in modern academia, the latter style of literary scholarship is an offshoot of post-structuralism.[2] Consequently, the word theory became an umbrella term for scholarly approaches to reading texts, some of which are informed by strands of semiotics, cultural studies, philosophy of language, and continental philosophy.
^ abCuller 1997, p.1
^Searle, John. (1990), "The Storm Over the University", The New York Review of Books, December 6, 1990.
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liberation. Critical theory finds applications in various fields of study, including psychoanalysis, film theory, literarytheory, cultural studies, history...
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role in the work of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes. In his 1973 literarytheory book The Pleasure of the Text, Barthes divides the effects of texts...
disciplines beyond linguistics, including philosophy, anthropology, and literarytheory. Jakobson was a decisive influence on anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss...
behaviors. Literary Darwinists use concepts from evolutionary biology and the evolutionary human sciences to formulate principles of literarytheory and interpret...
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disciplines interrelate. Although some branches of film theory are derived from linguistics and literarytheory, it also originated and overlaps with the philosophy...
Propp, non-literary narratives were commonly taken up. Still, the term "narratology" is most typically applied to literarytheory and literary criticism...
meaning of fiction is called literarytheory, and the narrower interpretation of specific fictional texts is called literary criticism (with subsets like...
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eid=85>. Barry, P. (2009). Beginning theory: Beginning theory: An Introduction To Literary And Cultural Theory (3rd). Manchester, UK: Manchester University...
affect theory has been taken up in psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, medicine, interpersonal communication, literarytheory, critical theory, media...
pseudosciences, such as phrenology and physiognomy. Poe's writing reflects his literarytheories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The...
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Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics. Semiotics...