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texts | interpretation | genre | narrative |
characters | style | tropes | intertextuality |
discourse analysis | bibliographical criticism | creative writing | critical writing |
formalism | new criticism | structuralism/ post-structuralism | deconstruction |
sociology of literature | new historicism | phenomenology | feminist literary criticism |
queer theory | postcolonial theory | cognitive poetics | world literature |