1. Types of Literary Theories
The modern sense of "literary theory" dates only to approximately the 1950s, when the structuralist linguists Ferdinand de Saussure began strongly to influence English language criticism. ... New Criticism Was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century. According to new criticism, the literary text contains its own meaning within itself. ... New criticism want to become objective in the nature instead of subjectivity. ... Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from 1910 to ...
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