ENC 1102: Finding Literary Criticism & More (Dale Mabry): Critical lenses

Literary criticism can be defined as analysis and interpretation of literary works by scholars who are writing for an academic audience.

Often times these scholars are examining one or more literary works through particular theories or critical lenses. Learn about many of these perspectives by exploring the resources on this page.

Includes:

• What is literary criticism?
• New criticism
• Reader response
• Deconstruction
• Psychological criticism
• Feminist criticism
• Historical criticism
• The Hero's Journey

Includes:

• Race Ethnicity analysis
• Formalism
• New historical analysis
• Feminist criticism
• Psychoanalytic theory
• Structuralism
• Queer theory
• Deconstruction theory