{"id":2331,"date":"2017-12-31T16:52:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askanacademic.com\/uncategorized\/literary-theory-160\/"},"modified":"2019-09-23T15:25:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T15:25:25","slug":"literary-theory-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askanacademic.com\/art-media-and-literature\/literary-theory-160\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"
What is literary theory?<\/p>\n
Literary theory<\/strong> encompasses a broad set of alternative approaches to discussing literary texts, informed by various socio-political and scholarly ideologies. Many of these focus on subjects and themes neglected or marginalised in traditional literary criticism; they are also instrumental in linking the study of English Literature to other academic disciplines. Some prominent literary theories include:<\/p>\n An explanation of literary theory and some of the theories it encompasses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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