English Literature - Theories/Readings

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Post-Colonialism
• A theoretical approach in various disciplines that is concerned with the lasting impact of colonization in former colonies. - Focuses on the influences of colonialism in literature, especially historical conflict between the West and the indigenous
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Feminism
• The advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. - Emphasizes themes of gender relations
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Queer Theory
• A set of ideas based around the idea that identities are not fixed and do not determine who we are. - examines, questions, and criticizes the role of gender identity and sexuality in literature.
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Post-Modernism
A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from modernism and is characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions.
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Deconstruction
• A strategy of "close" reading that elicits the ways that key terms and concepts may be paradoxical or self-undermining, rendering their meaning undecidable.
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• The advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. - Emphasizes themes of gender relations

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Feminism

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• A set of ideas based around the idea that identities are not fixed and do not determine who we are. - examines, questions, and criticizes the role of gender identity and sexuality in literature.

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A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from modernism and is characterized by the self-conscious use of earlier styles and conventions.

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• A strategy of "close" reading that elicits the ways that key terms and concepts may be paradoxical or self-undermining, rendering their meaning undecidable.

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