Literary science

Literary science is the systematic study of literature, encompassing literary forms, history, interpretation, and cultural contexts.

Literary theory: A body of ideas and methods for explaining how literary works mean and function. It supplies frameworks that literary science uses to analyze texts.
Close reading: Detailed analysis of a text’s language, structure, imagery, and patterns. It makes textual features the evidence for interpretations.
Friedrich Schleiermacher: A German theologian and philosopher whose work helped establish modern hermeneutics. His theories helped make interpretation a systematic scholarly problem.
Marxist literary criticism: The analysis of literature through class relations, material conditions, and ideology. It foregrounds economic structures that formal analysis may leave aside.
Canon formation: The process by which some works become recognized as central to a literary tradition. Studying curricula and criticism reveals how literary value becomes institutionalized.
Literary criticism: The interpretation and evaluation of literary works through reasoned analysis. Critical practice turns literary questions into arguments about particular works.
Textual criticism: The study of textual witnesses to establish or explain the wording of a work. It addresses which version of a literary text is being interpreted.
Erich Auerbach: A German literary scholar known for historical studies of European literary representation. His work exemplifies historically grounded comparative literary analysis.
Psychoanalytic literary criticism: The interpretation of literature through concepts drawn from psychoanalysis. It treats unconscious desire as a source of literary meaning.
Genre theory: The study of literary genres, their conventions, boundaries, and historical change. It helps classify works while tracing how literary forms evolve.

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