Critical Approaches to Literature
Formalism, feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, postcolonial criticism, and reader-response theory
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Explore literary critical lenses: formalism (New Criticism), feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, postcolonial criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, historicism, reader-response theory, and how different theoretical frameworks generate different interpretations of the same text.
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