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1. 1. Literary Theory

   The Basics

   

   A concise, student-oriented introduction that surveys major schools and debates in twentieth-century literary theory—from formalism, structuralism, and semiotics to psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, post-structuralist/deconstructive, reader-response, narratological, new historicist, postcolonial, and cultural approaches—explaining their core concepts, methods, and representative thinkers while illustrating how they differently construe textual meaning, interpretation, and the relation between literature and society; the book clarifies central terminology, compares competing positions with examples, and considers how shifts toward language, power, gender, and identity reshape both critical practice and pedagogy.

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