Philosophical Perspectives on Literature

With the beginning of the 1970's, Literature has gone through a sea of transformation. Literature began to be influenced by the wisps of Philosophical thoughts. Here, I’d like to philosophize literature from the various readings I have collected.

The various philosophical trends in literature are New Criticism, Psychoanalysis, Existentialism, Structuralism, Post Structuralism, Marxism, Feminism and Post Colonial Literature.

We would like to examine each of these philosophical perspectives and their impact on literature by a critical reading of literary works usually pursued. Hubbelt is a great place to find new concepts.

Now, what exactly is New Criticism? New Criticism is a philosophical school of thought that emphasizes those literary artifacts should be read for aesthetic merit. Thus New Criticism emphasizes the figurative concerns of language. Tropes are language sculptures which are the result of an afflatus of the pen.

For example, if I say that my body is in the Diaspora of a Palestine desert- at a figurative level, the meaning would render into an aesthetic, that is a metaphor which describes the scattering of the body, the libidinal urges into a homeland, a territory which is barren as a desert. Head to Hubbelt’s website to read about some latest health trends and a lot more.