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A Few Notes on Literary Theory
This may help with your research essay.
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A Few Notes on Literary Theory
This may help with your research essay.
A literary theory is a lens or a filter a critic uses to analyze a text. It gives the critic the filter that they can use to engage the text and parse meaning and / or significance.
Deciding what literary theory to use requires that the reader / critic actually read the text first to determine what theory or theories might be fruitful when applied to the text to be analyzed.
There is no “right” or “wrong” literary theory. It’s what the critic does with it that matters. As a starting critic, finding one that works requires thinking about what you as the reader, noticed in the text to be analyzed.
As an example, think how you would engage something like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:
If you’re interested in how Hermione acts / speaks / is represented, you might look to something like Feminist or Gender Theory, as it might give you a way to discuss the female character or how characteristics are gendered in the novel.
If you’re interested in the story arc or the plot, you might look at Structuralism or Formalism, both of which allow you to engage with structural / plot issues.
If you’re interested in how the novel teaches lessons, you might look at Reader-Response Theory, as it is about what the author brings to the text and what the reader brings to the same text and how that works.
It’s the same novel, but there are a variety of potentially fruitful literary theories. Those are just a few.
Remember that context (in your essay, it’s a particular literary theory that will allow both you and your reader to contextualize the novel) is New Historicism (an engagement with the text in relation to when it was written or produced).
Your literary analysis isn’t about context; it’s about establishing a way of engaging the text to establish value and meaning.
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