1. It is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

2. This approach regards literature as a “unique form of human knowledge that needs to be examined on its own terms. "

3. It focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of socio-political, psychological, and economic oppression.

4. This approach claims that the reader’s role cannot be separated from the understanding of the work.

5. This is a method or a higher criticism that investigates the origins of the ancient texts .

6. It analyzes both how the social functions in literature and how literature works in society.

7. It bases its premises as everything is textual composed of signs through language given to how other texts presented.

8. It is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud.

9. It is a method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism,

10. It is to judge the literary works according to moral rather that formal principles.