Sure, here are the definitions:

1. Marxism: This is a social, political, and economic theory originated by Karl Marx, which focuses on the struggle between capitalists and the working class. Marx believed that societal change happens as a result of this struggle.

2. Feminism: This is a socio-political movement that advocates for women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. It aims to understand and challenge gender inequality.

3. Queer Theory: This is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorization of 'queerness' itself.

4. Historicism: This is a mode of thinking that assigns a central and basic significance to a specific context, such as historical period, geographical place, and local culture.

5. Postcolonialism: This is a theoretical approach in various disciplines that deals with the cultural legacy of colonial rule. It also examines how societies are affected and influenced by the colonial history of their country.

6. New Historicism: This is a form of literary theory whose goal is to understand intellectual history through literature, and literature through its cultural context, which follows the 1950s field of history of ideas and refers to itself as a form of "Cultural Poetics".

7. Structuralism: This is a methodology that implies elements of human culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure.

8. Formalism (New Criticism): This is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of a text without taking into account any outside influence.

9. Post-structuralism: This is a late 20th Century movement in philosophy and literary criticism, which is skeptical of many of the assumptions of its predecessor, Structuralism. It emphasizes the instability of human understanding and interpretation.

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Sure, here are the definitions:

1. Marxism: This is a social, political, and economic theory originated by Karl Marx, which focuses on the struggle between capitalists and the working class. Marx believed that societal change happens as a result of this struggle.

2. Feminism: This is a socio-political movement that advocates for women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. It aims to understand and challenge gender inequality.

3. Queer Theory: This is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorization of 'queerness' itself.

4. Historicism: This is a mode of thinking that assigns a central and basic significance to a specific context, such as historical period, geographical place, and local culture.

5. Postcolonialism: This is a theoretical approach in various disciplines that deals with the cultural legacy of colonial rule. It also examines how societies are affected and influenced by the colonial history of their country.

6. New Historicism: This is a form of literary theory whose goal is to understand intellectual history through literature, and literature through its cultural context, which follows the 1950s field of history of ideas and refers to itself as a form of "Cultural Poetics".

7. Structuralism: This is a methodology that implies elements of human culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure.

8. Formalism (New Criticism): This is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text. It is the study of a text without taking into account any outside influence.

9. Post-structuralism: This is a late 20th Century movement in philosophy and literary criticism, which is skeptical of many of the assumptions of its predecessor, Structuralism. It emphasizes the instability of human understanding and interpretation.

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