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A detailed guide to archetypes in literature — recurring character patterns, mythic structures, examples, and how to analyze archetypes without reducing texts to stereotypes.
A detailed guide to the carnivalesque in literature — definition, Bakhtin, social inversion, festive disorder, examples, and analysis methods.
A detailed guide to deconstruction in literature — definition, Derrida, binary oppositions, différance, aporia, examples, and how to read textual instability carefully.
A detailed guide to defamiliarization in literature — definition, Russian Formalist background, techniques, examples, and methods for close reading.
A detailed guide to ecocriticism in literature — definition, history, major ideas, examples, and practical methods for analyzing nature, environment, and ecological crisis in texts.
A detailed guide to feminist literary criticism — definition, history, key concepts, examples, and how gender, power, voice, and representation shape literary interpretation.
A detailed guide to hybridity in postcolonial literature — Homi Bhabha, third space, mimicry, language mixing, identity, and analysis methods.
A detailed guide to intertextuality in literature — definition, theory, examples, types, and practical methods for analyzing how texts echo, revise, quote, and transform other texts.
A detailed guide to Marxist literary criticism — definition, history, key concepts, examples, and how class, labor, ideology, and material conditions shape literary form and meaning.
A detailed guide to mimesis in literature — definition, Plato and Aristotle, representation, examples, and practical methods for literary analysis.
A detailed guide to New Criticism and close reading — definition, history, key ideas, examples, common mistakes, and practical methods for analyzing literary form.
A detailed guide to New Historicism and cultural materialism — definitions, history, major ideas, examples, and methods for reading literature with power, culture, and historical context.
A detailed guide to orientalism in literature — Edward Said, empire, exoticism, othering, colonial fiction, and practical analysis methods.
A detailed guide to postcolonial literary criticism — definition, history, key thinkers, examples, and how empire, language, identity, and resistance shape literary meaning.
A detailed guide to psychoanalytic literary criticism — definition, history, key concepts, examples, and how desire, repression, dreams, trauma, and the unconscious shape literary meaning.
A detailed guide to reader-response criticism — definition, key thinkers, implied readers, interpretive communities, examples, and how readers participate in literary meaning.
A detailed guide to structuralism and semiotics in literature — definition, key thinkers, signs, codes, examples, and how meaning works through systems and difference.
A detailed guide to the subaltern in literature — Spivak, Gramsci, representation, silence, mediation, and close reading methods for postcolonial texts.