Literary theory Flashcards
critical theory
Literary theory
body of ifead and methods used in the prac trading of lit
Literary theory
principles derived
Literary theory
informed, written analysis and evaluation of work
Literary criticism
Life not examined is not worth living
Socrates
Literary criticism lets us understand
structure, context, ehat is written, how text manipulates
what to remember
different approached help us discover, each lens has strengths and weaknesses, each lens is vulnerable, pluralist
interpretative approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of lit devices witjin text
Formalism or New criticism
objective, unity
Formalism
equating the meaning of poem with aythors intentions
Intentional fallacy
confusing the meaning of a text wuth how it makes the reader feel
Affective fallacy
assuming that an interpretation of a literary work could consist detailed summary
Heresy of Paraphrase
close detailed analyssis without referring to historical suthorial and cultural concerns (bressler)
Close reading
literary language, partly by calling attention to itself as language m, estranged reader from familiar
Defamiliarization
appropriate literary conventions
Formalism
traditional form
formalism
Course in general linguistics (1906-1911)
structuralism
rejects minitic theory of language
Structuralism
la langue prior to parole
language system prior to linguistic utterance
France 1950-1960 Ferdinand de Saussure
Structuralism
science that seeks to understand how systems work
structuralism
look for patterns that underlie hukan behavior not just structures
Structuralism
there must be a structure like boy and girl
structuralism
how we make sense of things
Structuralism
Hacques derrida 1930-2004
Deconstruction
transcendental signified
no unifying element
Humankind is
Logocentric
there is nothing outside the text
Decon
hierarchy
Binary opp
Texts are unchanging
Structuralism
The meajing is undecidable
Decon
Looks for place where it condtradixys
Decon
means of production
Marxism
to achieve a classless society
Marxism
lit is a reflection of culture
culture can be influenced by lut
Beliefe that our value as guman beings relate to class
Classism
system which rverything can be defined through its worth in money
Capitalism
Best way to promote a strong society through people will rise to the top
Competition
relating things and people in terms of gow much money is worth
Commodification
ideology in whicy indiv strikes iyt alone in pursuit of a goak
Rugged individualism
Role of religion
religion plays a role in oppressing the poor
asks us to examine the ways in which our personal identity is formed by def of men and dwinen
Feminism
According to Gayle ribin, subordination of wromen started in
early societyies where women are seen as tokens
examines the way that female consciousbess is depicted by male and female writers
Feminism
is any society wihich men hold most power
patriarchy
traditional gender roles
men and women
belief that women are innately or by nature inferior to men
Sexism
victorian belief that idealized what it called true woman
cult of true womanhood
emerged in an attempt to inderstand people from different cultures un terms of an important experience they haf
Post colonialism
both a subject matter and theoreticak framework
postcolonialism
based on colonizers belief
Colonialzt Ideologies
practice of judging yhose who arr diff ad inferior
Othering
colonialist ideologies create social hierarchies on those who occupy at the bottom ladder
Subaltern
subalterns who internalize the colonist belief from a societys dominant culture ate inferior
Colonial subjects
imitation by subaltern of the dtrdd,speech,behavior of members of the dominant
Minicry
feeling of having no stable cultural identity. belong to dominant but rejects it ad inferior
Unhomrliness
effort to rid ones land of colonial donination
Anticolonist resistance
opptrssed indivs manage to keep their minds free of colonialist ideology
Psychological resistance
Plot is beginning, middle, end
Structuralism
