Concept
Literary theory
Overview
Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, moral philosophy, social philosophy, and interdisciplinary themes relevant to how people interpret meaning. In the humanities in modern academia, the latter style of literary scholarship is an offshoot of post-structuralism. Consequently, the word theory became an umbrella term for scholarly approaches to reading texts, some of which are informed by strands of semiotics, cultural studies, philosophy of language, and continental philosophy, often witnessed within Western canon along with some postmodernist theory.
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Philosophers who discussed Literary theory
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Gilles Deleuze
- Judith Butler
- Roland Barthes
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Maurice Blanchot
- Donald Davidson (philosopher)
- Umberto Eco
- György Lukács
- Michel Foucault
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Tzvetan Todorov
- Roman Ingarden
- Susan Bordo
- María Zambrano
- Jens Zimmermann (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Feminism
- Artificial intelligence
- Ancient philosophy
- James Wood (critic)
- Gilles Deleuze
- Philosophy
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- John Searle
- Judith Butler
- Jacques Lacan
- Slavoj Žižek
- Hélène Cixous
- Roland Barthes
- Language
- Aestheticism
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Edward Said
- Postcolonialism
- Literature
- Marxism
- Max Horkheimer
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Richard Rorty
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Essentialism.