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Literary theory Flashcards

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critical theory

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Literary theory

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body of ifead and methods used in the prac trading of lit

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Literary theory

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principles derived

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Literary theory

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informed, written analysis and evaluation of work

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Literary criticism

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Life not examined is not worth living

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Socrates

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Literary criticism lets us understand

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structure, context, ehat is written, how text manipulates

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what to remember

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different approached help us discover, each lens has strengths and weaknesses, each lens is vulnerable, pluralist

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interpretative approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of lit devices witjin text

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Formalism or New criticism

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objective, unity

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Formalism

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equating the meaning of poem with aythors intentions

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Intentional fallacy

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confusing the meaning of a text wuth how it makes the reader feel

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Affective fallacy

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assuming that an interpretation of a literary work could consist detailed summary

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Heresy of Paraphrase

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close detailed analyssis without referring to historical suthorial and cultural concerns (bressler)

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Close reading

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literary language, partly by calling attention to itself as language m, estranged reader from familiar

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Defamiliarization

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appropriate literary conventions

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Formalism

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traditional form

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formalism

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Course in general linguistics (1906-1911)

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structuralism

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rejects minitic theory of language

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Structuralism

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la langue prior to parole

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language system prior to linguistic utterance

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20
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France 1950-1960 Ferdinand de Saussure

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Structuralism

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science that seeks to understand how systems work

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structuralism

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look for patterns that underlie hukan behavior not just structures

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Structuralism

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there must be a structure like boy and girl

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structuralism

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how we make sense of things

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Structuralism

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Hacques derrida 1930-2004

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Deconstruction

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transcendental signified

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no unifying element

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Humankind is

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Logocentric

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there is nothing outside the text

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Decon

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hierarchy

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Binary opp

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Texts are unchanging

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Structuralism

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The meajing is undecidable

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Decon

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Looks for place where it condtradixys

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Decon

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means of production

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Marxism

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to achieve a classless society

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Marxism

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lit is a reflection of culture

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culture can be influenced by lut

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Beliefe that our value as guman beings relate to class

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Classism

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system which rverything can be defined through its worth in money

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Capitalism

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Best way to promote a strong society through people will rise to the top

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Competition

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relating things and people in terms of gow much money is worth

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Commodification

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ideology in whicy indiv strikes iyt alone in pursuit of a goak

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Rugged individualism

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Role of religion

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religion plays a role in oppressing the poor

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asks us to examine the ways in which our personal identity is formed by def of men and dwinen

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Feminism

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According to Gayle ribin, subordination of wromen started in

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early societyies where women are seen as tokens

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examines the way that female consciousbess is depicted by male and female writers

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Feminism

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is any society wihich men hold most power

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patriarchy

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traditional gender roles

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men and women

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belief that women are innately or by nature inferior to men

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Sexism

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victorian belief that idealized what it called true woman

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cult of true womanhood

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emerged in an attempt to inderstand people from different cultures un terms of an important experience they haf

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Post colonialism

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both a subject matter and theoreticak framework

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postcolonialism

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based on colonizers belief

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Colonialzt Ideologies

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practice of judging yhose who arr diff ad inferior

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Othering

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colonialist ideologies create social hierarchies on those who occupy at the bottom ladder

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Subaltern

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subalterns who internalize the colonist belief from a societys dominant culture ate inferior

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Colonial subjects

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imitation by subaltern of the dtrdd,speech,behavior of members of the dominant

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Minicry

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feeling of having no stable cultural identity. belong to dominant but rejects it ad inferior

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Unhomrliness

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effort to rid ones land of colonial donination

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Anticolonist resistance

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opptrssed indivs manage to keep their minds free of colonialist ideology

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Psychological resistance

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Plot is beginning, middle, end

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Structuralism

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