This critical approach uses literature to describe the competing socio-economic interests that advance capitalistic interests such as money and power over socialist interests such as morality and justice. Because of this focus, it focuses on content and theme rather than form. 

This approach is not a rationale for bizarre meanings or mistaken ones, but an exploration of the plurality of texts. This kind of strategy calls attention to how we read and what influences our readings, and what that reveals about ourselves.

A critical approach in which the text under discussion is considered primarily as a structure of words. That is, the main focus is on the arrangement of language, rather than on the implications of the words, or on the biographical and historical relevance of the work in question.

In painting, it is an approach that describes the critical position that the most important aspect of a work of art is its form – the way it is made and its purely visual aspects – rather than its narrative content or its relationship to the visible world.

This critical approach recognizes that literature both reflects and shapes stereotypes and other cultural assumptions. Thus, its criticism examines how works of literature embody patriarchal attitudes or undercut them, sometimes both happening within the same work.