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literary criticism Flashcards

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stanley fish

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reader response

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cleanth brooks

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new criticism

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Claude Levi Strauss

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Anthropological Structuralism

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Saussure

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Structuralism

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Roland Barthes

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Linguistic Structuralism

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Jakobson

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Linguistic Structuralism

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Lacan

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Subjection-realm of symbolic

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Althusser

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Subjection-realm of economy

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Foucault

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Subjection- New Historicism

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10
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Derrida

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Deconstruction

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Nancy

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Participation-Poetics of Finitude

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heresy of paraphrase

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to declare what a poem is trying to say
poems can’t be quantified

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affective fallacy

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to understand the meaning of the text as only what you got from it

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intentional fallacy

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to understand the meaning of the text as what the author meant

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NC-What is a poems major job

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A creative unity–joining of unexpected things together

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What’s more important to a new critic-content or form

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form

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reader response theory

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Meaning is in the activity of reading. Not what the text means, but what it does to us

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Is there a text in this class?

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No, there is only us and we use up the piece

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who is the ideal reader in reader response

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1.speaks the language
2.knows the genres and forms
3. can determine what’s idiosyncratic vs what’s intended

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structuralism theory

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Anything that “is” within a larger system or stucture means nothing in and of itself

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Linguistics

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Study of meaningful sounds

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seme

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arbitrary relation of signifier to signified- ideal element of language

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New criticism theory

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we read to perserve the object as a unified platonic form

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signifier

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the word itself

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signified

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cat you picture

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sign

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signifier/signified

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anthropological structuralism

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looking at human processes through a structuralist lens

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linguistic structuralism

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poetry isn’t structured like a language but is in fact a permutation of language

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syntagmatic

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horizontal organization by which seems organize theselves
-metanymic
-combination

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paradigmatic

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vertical organization by which semes organize themselves
-metaphoric
-selection

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the objective semiotics feature that distinguishes literary uses of language from other uses is

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the dominance of a tendency to “project the axis of equivalence onto the axis of combination”
paradigmatic onto syntagmatic

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syntax

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deployment of words to give off grammatical functions

33
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6 factors of speech

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1.addresser
2.addressee
3.code
4.message
5.context
6.contact

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6 functions of speech

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1.emotive
2.conative
3.metalingual
4.poetic
5.referential
6.phatic

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poetic function

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when the focus of the communication is on the words themselves not the referent or the rules

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theories of subjection

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when I read poetry and literature I am entering the totality culture as a subject

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freud’s dreamwork

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repression reworks one’s impulses by way of condensation and displacement

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condensation

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multiple dream thoughts combined

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displacement

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you have immense feelings about something that emerge through a certain motif

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symbolic

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entry into the totality of language

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metaphor-subjection

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signifier stays secure while signified gets squared

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metanym

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dissolves signifier and signified

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Lacan’s theory of subjection

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the unconscious is structured like a language-

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where does culture come from according to Althusser

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culture is superstructural-reflected by work

45
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What does ISA stand for

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Ideological State Apparatus:
Literature operates under this and hails us as subjects

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Subjection-Althusser

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All literature is written to support the modes of production THUS
dont read literature for meaning but rather what it wants to mean but says under ostensible assertions

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Subjection-Foucoalt

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every new element alters the system and no way to establish metaphysical priority for a given set of terms

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archaeology

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discovering the configuration that give rise to specific practices

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epistemes

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set of rules of formation that allow discourses to function
1.what can be known
2.how something is known
3.total sum of what is known

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discourse

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the system itself that makes possible what you say

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new historicism

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how a body of work
1.responds to a discourse system
2.enacts discourse system
3.alters episteme configuration
-no social world is stable

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genealogy

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tracing powers-creation of new epistemes

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new historicists see literary works as

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a vessel tossed in a social sea of competing interests antagonistic values and contradictions

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whats more important to a new historicist-context or text

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context

55
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The structurally of structure

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the system is never stable, always something that undoes it

56
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Deconstruction

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There is a necessary self displacement to be a self
a self canceling for the sake of continuing one’s existence

57
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phenomonology

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philosophy that tries to describe the richness of experience

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