A Theory of Literature: Realistic Approach

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Talking about Literature: Literary Terms

2. In Search of Classifications: Literary Forms and Genres

3. Returning Pattern and Order: Structuralism

4. Looking for Change and Novelty: Poststructuralism

5. Trying to Understand a Text: Hermeneutics

6. Towards the Reader and Interpreter: Deconstruction

7. Between the Text and the Reader’s Mind: Phenomenology

8. Literature of Liberated Voices: Postcolonialism

9. Archetypes of a Literary Hero

10. Literary Confession: Autobiography

11. Fantasy and the Epic

12. A Neglected Corner: Children’s Literature

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