Literary Analysis Flashcards
involves the historical and geographical context of a work and leads readers to consider how colonization informs the plot, characters, setting, and other elements in the work.
Postcolonial theory
invites readers to interpret a text by looking at its treatment of and suggestions about women and a culture’s treatment of women. As with most literary theories, this information can be clearly stated or strongly implied in a work, but it may also be gleaned through looking closely at symbols, characters, and plot elements in a work.
Gender and feminist theory
uses the structure and organization of a work and the foundations of language to examine how and what a text conveys about the human experience and how those findings connect to common human experiences.
Structuralism
heavily relies on the cultural and historical context of a work, including when it was written, where the author lives or lived, the culture and history of that location, and other works from the same culture. New historical readings seek to examine these details to expose the ideologies of the location and culture that influenced the work.
New historicism
uses the individual reader’s response to the text and experience while reading the text to examine the meaning of the reader’s relationship with the text and what that relationship suggests about the reader or the factors impacting their experience.
Reader-response theory
considers the societies that are relevant to a text. The author’s society and any reader’s society are important to the text, as sociological criticism seeks to uncover what the text implies or reveals about those societies. This method of criticism can also involve studying the presentation of a society within the text and applying it to the author’s society or their other writings.
Sociological criticism
impacts language by incorporating a group’s communication norms into an individual’s speech and behavior. These norms may affect a speaker’s tone, volume, or pace
Ethnicity
