Critical Theories Deal with knowledge through interpretation to understand the meaning of human text and symbolic expressions including interpretation of texts themselves interpret other texts. ... We should put our prior knowledge aside and the focus should be on close analysis of text. ... Formalism Formalism is a school of literary and critical theory which mainly deals with structural purposes of a text. ... French Structuralism Structuralism has its origin in the thinking of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. ...

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