Paper Details

Name: Ashoo Toor
Country: India

Year: 2014
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 28-32

Theory in literary criticism is being practiced under several names given to different schools and movements. Some such current theories include- Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, New Historicism, Subalternism etc. All these different schools of thought are marked by the common spirit of theory, which is to problematise what has been established in life and lifetime in abstract or concrete form. With the more fashionable deconstruction in vogue in the literary academy today, it is natural to question binaries such as inside/outside, mind/body, speech/writing, presence/absence, nature/culture, form/meaning, man/woman etc. It is agreed upon that binaries are not natural and inevitable truths, and most modern theories seek to dismantle them as such.