ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly presents almost 50 existing approaches to the literary text: (1) cognitive poetics; (2) comparative literature; (3) cultural materialism (New Historicism); (4) cultural studies; (5) deconstruction; (6) dialogism; (7) digital media (new media) studies; (8) ecocriticism; (9) feminism, feminist criticism, gender studies; (10) genetic criticism or textual genetics; (11) geocriticism; (12) hermeneutics; (13) history of ideas; (14) history of mentalities; (15) intermediality (study of); (16) intertextuality (study of); (17) linguistics; (18) literary genres (study of); (19) literary history; (20) literature and other arts (study of); (21) Marxism; (22) mythanalysis; (23) narratology; (24) New Criticism; (25) onomastics; (26) philosophy; (27) poetics; (28) postcolonial studies; (29) posthumanism; (30) pragmatics; (31) psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychocriticism; (32) queer studies, queer theory; (33) race and ethnicity studies, critical race theory; (34) reading (theories of); (35) reception (theories of); (36) rhetoric; (37) rhythm (study of); (38) Russian Formalism; (39) semantics; (40) semiotics; (41) sociology of literature; (42) structuralism; (43) stylistics; (44) textual statistics and computer text analysis; (45) thematics and symbolism (analysis); (46) versification (study of); and (47) world literature.
