Modern Literary Critical Thinking: The Sociological Approach and Its Mechanisms for Engaging with Literary Texts

Abstract

Literary criticism has attempted to move beyond impressionism and subjectivity in analyzing literary texts, relying on the humanities, including sociology, history, and psychology, to establish analytical tools, mechanisms, and fixed rules that engage with the text objectively. Modern literary criticism has proposed various contextual critical approaches that explore the motivations for writing and the external contexts of the literary text, with the social approach being one of them.