Overview of Critical Issues

This is far from an exhaustive list of issues that are important to literary criticism. But it will serve to organize the material that we study.

• Canonicity and Aesthetics
  
• Intent of the Author
  
• Formalism
  
• Reader-Response
  
• Mimesis/Realism
  
• Intertextuality
  
• Psychological
  
• Poststructural
  
• Historical-Cultural