Literary Criticism

Feminist literary criticism is the product of the women's movement of the 1960s. This theory depends on the image of women in the litera...

Psychoanalytical Criticism Psychoanalytical criticism, which emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, is a type of literary crit...

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965). Prufrock and Other Observations. 1917. 1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock S’io credesse che mia ri...

Postmodernism: a term referring to certain radically experimental works of literature and art produced after world War II. The postmodern er...

Modernism: A revolutionary movement encompassing all of the creative arts that had its roots in the 1890s, a transitional period during whic...

Roland Barthes (12 November 1915 – 25 March 1980) : was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes's work...

Post Structuralism By the mid 20th century there were a number of structural theories of human existence. In the study of language, the stru...