True, most of CDA is directed towards analyzing media discourses and political discourses, however, literary works can be subjected to CDA on numerous levels, for instance if one has to analyse a larger corpus of works, like novels, one may analyse the major discourse strands running through them etc, however, the researcher needs to establish a clearly defined theoretical framework and the conceptual tools to correlate how either the discourse fragments or discourse strands relate with themultiple societal formations and the power matrix within which the literary text is embedded. Once more, the tools engaged in the process need to be defined by the researcher him/her self. This is what makes CDA unique. E.g I am working in this domain and in order to apply CDA on literary works I have had to define the relevant episteme and the discursive matrix that defines this episteme and related the major discourse strands as evinced in the texts in collimation with the epistemic paradigms that I had defined earlier. In the process I had to modify CDA to meet the requirements of my research. However, a lot still needs to be done in the domain.

Thanks a lot. I found your answer helpful. I was thinking of using a modified version of CDA for the analysis of the novels I selected but I wanted to make sure whether there isaversion of CDA that is especially tailored for the analysis of literary works.