It involves the reading, interpretation, and commentary of a specific text or texts which have been designated as literature

• Literary Analysis

• Literary Approach

• Literary Criticism

• Literary Theory

It is a kind of literary theory/approach that is based on the premise that literature is an imitation of life.

• Classical Literary Theory

• Historical-Biographical Approach

• Moral Philosophical Approach

• New Criticism

It is a kind of literary theory/approach which sees a literary work as a reflection of the author’s life and times or the life and the times of the characters in the work.

• Classical Literary Theory

• Historical-Biographical Approach

• Moral Philosophical Approach

• New Criticism

It is a kind of literary theory/approach which emphasizes that the larger function of literature is to teach morality and to probe philosophical issues.

• Classical Literary Theory

• Marxist Literary Theory

• Moral Philosophical Approach

• Psychoanalytical Theory

It is a kind of literary theory/approach which is concerned mainly with the text in itself, language and organization. It involves “close reading” as a way to engage with a text, and paid close attention to the interactions between form and meaning.

• Classical Literary Theory

• Marxist Literary Theory

• Moral Philosophical Approach

• New Criticism

It is a kind of literary theory/approach which applies the ideas of Freudian psychology to literature.

• Classical Literary Theory

• Marxist Literary Theory

• Moral Philosophical Approach

• Psychoanalytical Theory

It is a kind of literary theory/approach which is based on Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious. It involves repeated or dominant changes/patterns of human experience.

• Marxist Literary Theory

• Moral Philosophical Approach

• Mythological/Archetypal Approach

• Psychoanalytical Theory

It is a kind of literary theory/approach which draws from the linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure. It stresses that texts are unavoidably influenced by other texts, in terms of both their formal and conceptual structures,

• Deconstruction

• Moral Philosophical Approach

• Russian Formalism

• Structuralist Literary Theory

It is a kind of literary theory/approach which exposes the gaps, the contradictions in a discourse, and then revealing the hidden articulations.

• Deconstruction

• Moral Philosophical Approach

• Russian Formalism

• Structuralist Literary Theory

It is a kind of literary theory/approach which aims to establish a ‘science of literature’ – a complete knowledge of the formal effects (devices, techniques, etc.) which together makes up what is called literature.

• Deconstruction

• Moral Philosophical Approach

• Russian Formalism

• Structuralist Literary Theory