An Intro to Literary Theory
Google Drive link to handouts on Literary Theory (& archetypes & lit terms)
IB's own paperwork on how literary criticism should be used in the program
List of stock/archetypal characters
Overview of Lit Theory (all types) - Purdue - CHECK THE "typical questions" sections of major literary schools of thought
Schools of Literary Theory via Wikipedia
10 slide brief/nice intro to literary theory
26 slide intro to literary theory
20 slide intro to literary theory (not bad)
Basic Overview of all types of Lit Theory
Complex Overview of Lit Theory's history/types
An interactive graph of the schools of literary theory and their individual theorists/critics (or see final image on this page)
MAJOR SCHOOLS OF LIT CRIT:
New Criticism - essentially close reading of the factual text (is the main underlying theory behind your actual WA essay)
Formalism
Archetypal Lit Crit
Archetypes defined/explained
Structuralism/Semiotics
Aestheticism (art for art's sake (or literature as a work of beauty)
Reader Response - in total conflict with New Criticism
Psychoanalytic literary criticism or another take on it
New Historicism - essentially is the task of or underlying theory behind your WA interactive oral
Deconstructionism Lit Theory (can explore Post-modernism)
Post-Structuralism
Post-Colonial Lit Theory
Marxist Lit Crit
Feminist Lit Crit
MISC recently established lit theory branches:
Queer Theory
Ecocriticism
New Puritans
Literary Theory - Critical Lens / Questions to ask
Google Drive link to handouts on Literary Theory (& archetypes & lit terms)
IB's own paperwork on how literary criticism should be used in the program
List of stock/archetypal characters
Overview of Lit Theory (all types) - Purdue - CHECK THE "typical questions" sections of major literary schools of thought
Schools of Literary Theory via Wikipedia
10 slide brief/nice intro to literary theory
26 slide intro to literary theory
20 slide intro to literary theory (not bad)
Basic Overview of all types of Lit Theory
Complex Overview of Lit Theory's history/types
An interactive graph of the schools of literary theory and their individual theorists/critics (or see final image on this page)
MAJOR SCHOOLS OF LIT CRIT:
New Criticism - essentially close reading of the factual text (is the main underlying theory behind your actual WA essay)
Formalism
Archetypal Lit Crit
Archetypes defined/explained
Structuralism/Semiotics
Aestheticism (art for art's sake (or literature as a work of beauty)
Reader Response - in total conflict with New Criticism
Psychoanalytic literary criticism or another take on it
New Historicism - essentially is the task of or underlying theory behind your WA interactive oral
Deconstructionism Lit Theory (can explore Post-modernism)
Post-Structuralism
Post-Colonial Lit Theory
Marxist Lit Crit
Feminist Lit Crit
MISC recently established lit theory branches:
Queer Theory
Ecocriticism
New Puritans
Literary Theory - Critical Lens / Questions to ask
| narrative_theory_cheat_sheet.pdf |
| literary_theory_-_questions_to_ask_when_reading.docx |
Marxist Crit:
