ABSTRACT

This chapter briefly presents almost 30 aspects that can be analyzed in a literary text: (1) beliefs, values, ideology, argumentation; (2) character, actant, actor, agonist; (3) collections (of poems, short stories, etc.); (4) connotation, denotation; (5) content, form; (6) context; (7) deviation, norm; (8) generative seed (e.g., keyword); (9) genesis, variants, creation of the book; (10) genre (novel, short story, etc.); (11) language; (12) mimetic mode (realism, the fantastical, etc.); (13) onomastics (proper names); (14) production (writing), immanence (the text as an object in itself), reception (e.g., reading); (15) psychology; (16) rhythm; (17) segmentation, arrangement; (18) signs (signifier, signified, referent); (19) society; (20) space; (21) story, narrative, narration, action; (22) structure, relation (e.g., opposition), operation (e.g., addition/suppression); (23) style; (24) themes, thematic, thematic structure; (25) time; (26) topos (narrative and thematic clichés); (27) transtextuality: intertextuality (relation between two texts, etc.), autotextuality, etc.; (28) versification; (29) worldview, a view of something (e.g., art, humankind).