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Literary Critical Theory An Overview of Its Development and Major Types Rhetorical New Criticism Traditional Metaphorical Stylistic Structuralist Political Myth Theory Biographical Marxist Freudian Historicist

LITERARY THEORY TEXT-BASED "Practical Criticism" "Close Reading" READER-BASED "Big-Picture Questions" 1960s Merging 1970s THEORY BOOM (denies a main theory) Freudian New Historicist Myth Theory Biographical Cognitive- Scientific Structuralist Traditional Marxist Feminist Postmodern Historical New Criticism

UPON EATING AN APPLE Deconstruction might ask… ‘If the apple peel and the flesh are both part of an “apple,” are they not in fact one and the same thing?’ Myth Theory might ask… ‘What is the significance of the apple image in legend?’ Feminist theory might ask… ‘What possibilities are available to a woman who eats this apple, and has she been forced by males to think she wants an apple?’ Formalism might ask… ‘What type, shape, and diameter is the apple, and so what?’ Gender criticism might ask...'Is this apple gendered, and has the apple been discriminated for or against because of its gender?' Marxist theory might ask… ‘Who owns the apple, and how do "Powers" determine who gets the apple or how much of the apple goes to the common citizen?’ New Historicism might ask… 'What is the background of relations in which the apple is embedded--geneticists, growers, workers, sellers, buyers, eaters?' Poststructuralism might ask…'How stable a subject is this apple--worthy of study?' Psychoanalysis might ask… ‘What does the apple remind us of--and why?’ Reader-Response might ask… ‘What does the apple taste like, and do you enjoy it?’ Structuralism might ask… ‘How are the apple peel and the flesh differentiated into composite parts, and how does that analysis help us appreciate the apple?'

WE WILL BE EXPLORING SOME OF THE FOLLOWING CRITICAL THEORIES: Marxist New Historicist Reader- Response New Criticism Archetypal Psycho- analytic Deconstruction Feminist

Our Websites - public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/crit.summaries.html public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/crit.summaries.html - and Other sites for reference are - hhh.gavilan.edu/ecrook/1B/LiteraryTheory.htm hhh.gavilan.edu/ecrook/1B/LiteraryTheory.htm - includes Formalist/New Criticism, Biographical-Historical, Psychoanalytic, - Mythological, Sociological/Cultural (Feminist, Marxist, etc.), Reader Response, - and Deconstruction includes Traditional, New Criticism, Rhetorical, Stylistic, Metaphorical, - Structuralist, Post-Structuralist, Myth Theory, Freudian, Jungian, - Historical, Biographical, Sociological, Political, Marxist, Cognitive