English Flashcards

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new criticism

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an autonomous object united in terms of from and meaning

features - front paradox and complexity

  • has a single valid interpretation
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psychoanalytic

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  • peoples behaviour is affected by their unconscious
  • unconscious was influenced by childhood events
  • our desires and our conscious
  • super ego
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marxist

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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
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reader response

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  • audience responses
  • concerned with what the reader thinks
  • takes own personal experience into a text
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existentialism

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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

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post modernism

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  • there is no objective reality / truth and that human nature is socially determined
  • usually ironic formal and social political content
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archetype/ mythic

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literary criticism

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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
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Literary theory

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refers to a particular form of literary criticism in which particular academic, scientific or philosophical approaches are followed while analyzing literary texts

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