Themes And Plot Flashcards
Plot must have what
Beginning middle and end
Post colonial theory
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
Gender and feminist theory
Involves readers to interpret a text by looking at its treatment of and suggestions about woman and a cultures treatment of women.
Structuralism
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
New historicism
Heavily relies on the cultural and historical context of a work including when it was written where the author lived or lives the culture and history of that location and other works from the same culture
Reader response theory
Uses the individual readers response to the text and experiences while reading the text to examine the meaning of the readers relationship with the text and what the relationship suggests about the reader or the factors impacting their experience
Sociological criticism
Considers the societies that are relevant to a text