English Flashcards
new criticism
an autonomous object united in terms of from and meaning
features - front paradox and complexity
- has a single valid interpretation
psychoanalytic
- peoples behaviour is affected by their unconscious
- unconscious was influenced by childhood events
- our desires and our conscious
- super ego
marxist
reflects the material forces operative at a specific time and promotes or impedes progress towards social utopia
- compares the bougies to the proletariat and how high class people treat lower class people
reader response
- audience responses
- concerned with what the reader thinks
- takes own personal experience into a text
existentialism
movement in philosophy and literature that emphasize individual existences freedom and choice
- based on the view that humans define their one meaning in life and try to make rational decisions
post modernism
- there is no objective reality / truth and that human nature is socially determined
- usually ironic formal and social political content
archetype/ mythic
literary criticism
refers to the act of interpreting and studying literature and helps us develop empathy for through the lenses
- Helps us to analyze, deconstruct, interpret and evaluate
Literary theory
refers to a particular form of literary criticism in which particular academic, scientific or philosophical approaches are followed while analyzing literary texts