Humanism and Early Renaissance During the Renaissance, humanism emerged as a significant intellectual movement, starting in Italy in the...

Queer studies are also knowns as sexual diversity studies and LGBT studies. It focuses on lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people,...

In feminist literary criticism, stereotypes and other cultural assumptions are both reflected and shaped by literature. Literature is...

Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. Psychoanalysis involves having the patient speak freely about his childhood experiences and...

The work of Sigmund Freud influences the study of the unconscious and human behaviour. It is Freud's belief that human responses to the...

It is a school of literary Theory that focuses on the reader and their experience of a literary work. It focuses primarily on the author...

In the 1980s, Michel Foucault and Stephen Greenblatt developed a similar critical approach to Marxism in their works. The New Historicist...

New Criticism was a formalist literary theory movement that dominated American literary Criticism in the middle of the 20th century. It...

Structuralism is a 1949 approach derived from linguistics. It attempts to analyze a specific field as a complex system of interrelated...