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Literary theory part 2 Flashcards

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New Historicism

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is all about paying close attention to the historical context of literary works.

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Self-fashioning

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Self-fashioning is this term coined by the Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt, who made it up to describe the way that Renaissance authors like William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe created identities for themselves (and for their characters) according to the social, cultural, and political codes of their time.

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Culture as text

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New Historicism

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how important it is to “stick to the canon,”

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Stephen Greenblatt and Harold Bloom

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Cultural Poetics

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New Historicism

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Representation

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A literary work (or an art work) that depicts aspects of social or cultural life is representing what those aspects are like in real life.

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Historical Materialism

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Basically, everything that we do—including what we think—is determined by our material conditions

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Circulation

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This idea has to do with the circulation of power. The New Historicists like to study and understand the way power circulates in a society, from the big people down to the little people—and sometimes back up again

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NEW HISTORICISM AUTHORS

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Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Gallagher were inspired by three theorists: Michel Foucault, Clifford Geertz, and Raymond Williams.

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The second important group of New Historicists focus on the Romantic period.

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Marjorie Levinson and Jerome McGann study the “big” Romantic poets—William Wordsworth, John Keats, and George Gordon (more commonly called “Lord”) Byron

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Greenblatt’s book on New Historicism

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His 1980 book, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare,

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Renaissance clique on New Historicism

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Greenblatt, Catherine Gallagher and Louis Adrian Montrose

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New Historicism emerged partly in response to

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New Criticism

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The approach of New Historicists

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So the New Historicists get down with studying “non-canonical” works alongside “canonical” works

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POSTCOLONIAL THEORY BUZZWORDS

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Resistance
Empire/Imperialist
Subaltern- poor person
Colonizer/Colonized
Appropriation
Hybridity
Neo-colonial/neo-colonialism
Marginalization
Strategic essentialism
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POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AUTHORS

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Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Homi Bhabha and Edward Said

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The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literature

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Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin

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Orientalism

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1978: Edward Said’s Orientalism

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Can the subaltern speak?”’

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1988: Gayatri Spivak’s essay

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Homi Bhabha’s

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1994: Homi Bhabha’s The Location of Culture

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White Teeth

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2000: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth

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Empire

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2001: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire

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players of poco

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Edward Said 
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin
Gayatri Spivak 
Chinua Achebe
Homi Bhabha 
Chandra Talpade Mohanty 
Frantz Fanon
Stuart Hall
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Poststructuralism

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One of the basic assumptions that shape poststructuralist thinking is that every aspect of human experience—our modes of communication, social habits, values, wallpaper preferences, even our personal identities—are textual.

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Signification

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It’s an active, ongoing process of producing meaning.

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Ferdinand de Saussure, language works by combining two things:

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signifiers and signifieds.

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Signifiers

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words

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Signified

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things or concepts that words are supposed to refer to.

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Of Grammatology

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Derrida

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Transcendental Signified

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we can never get meaning to hold still. We can never reach Absolute Truth.

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Text

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“an activity of production.”: Roland Barthes

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Discourse

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language activity

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Ideology

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ideologies are cultural and created by discourse

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Simulacrum/Simulation

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Jean Baudrillard

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a simulacrum

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a simulacrum is a copy or image of something

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Simulation,

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means pretending to have something that you don’t.

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Rhizome

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Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari,

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In their classic study A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia,

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Deleuze and Guattari point out that Western philosophy has always used a metaphor of a tree to describe itself.

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Langue

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A French word referring to the deep structure (or grammar) underneath language.

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Parole

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utterances or speech acts.

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Parole is governed by the same

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langue

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Sign

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Signifier+ signified

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Semiology

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A discipline that takes the study of signs as its subject.

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Binary opposition

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A pair of words or concepts that are opposite in meaning.

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Function

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A pair of words or concepts that are opposite in meaning.

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Vladimir Propp, the number of functions in fairy tales is limited to

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