Postmodern approaches and critical vision (psychology, deconstruction, cultural criticism) (dirasat naqdiat – tahlilia)

Abstract

Abstract

Contemporary literary critical approaches find consideration from critic’s _old and modernists. The views and methodologies are the focus of this study. It aims at explaining the features and the methodologies of these approaches. Moreover, the study focuses on how they deal with literary texts and how they consider the organization of a literary work in the analysis. The researcher focuses on the semiotic, deconstructionist, and cultural approaches. These approaches call for a new thought that is capable of establishing a new start. Furthermore, they have tendency to refrain from the effect of emotional desires in dealing with a literary text. Contemporary literary approaches ignore social, historical and psychological methodologies and consider only the contents of the text in isolation from extrinsic elements of that text. This is considered as attempts at changing the universal thoughts in terms of similarities and differences. The researcher employs the descriptive analytical methods to achieve the aims of this study. He concludes that these contemporary approaches are not enclosed in their influences. They extend to different modes of thoughts. More importantly, these critical methodologies consider the organization of a literary work rather than its context and they do not put importance in the multiplicity of that organization. The contemporary approaches face challenges because of their views and strategies.