id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4445 Literary theory - Wikipedia .html text/html 3127 293 51 Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis.[1] Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, moral philosophy, social prophecy, and interdisciplinary themes relevant to how people interpret meaning.[1] In the humanities in modern academia, the latter style of literary scholarship is a development of critical theory.[2] Consequently, the word theory became an umbrella term for scholarly approaches to reading texts, some of which are informed by strands of sociology and Continental philosophy. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4445.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4445.txt