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Literary Worlds Flashcards

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Literary

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  • Fictional characters and events
  • Focused on plot development
  • Aesthetically arranged
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Worlds

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  • Totality
  • Space, time and place
  • Constructed physical or metaphorical setting
  • Has its own plausible rules
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Private/individual worlds

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  • Identity
  • Morality
  • Attitudes
  • Values
  • Motives
  • Beliefs
  • Shapes individual thoughts and actions
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Public/collective worlds

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  • Societal values and expectations
  • Culture
  • Power structures
  • Centralised norms and worldviews
  • Shapes collective thoughts and actions
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Imaginary worlds

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  • Genre
  • Setting
  • Form
  • Plot
  • Characterisation
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Relationship between public and private worlds

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  • Intertwined
  • Individual is shaped and impacted by the collective
  • Collective is made up of individuals
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Authorial intent of creating literary worlds

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  • Escape to a new world
  • Profound expression of meaning and experiences
  • Communication of concepts
  • Explore human values, morals and ethics
  • Cathartic and personal focus
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Social impact of literary worlds

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  • Address social taboos
  • Paves way for change
  • Platform for various identities
  • Critique of society and culture
  • Mimetic of society and culture
  • Transcends time and place to convey universal values
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Audience reception and outlook of literary worlds

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  • Encourages mainstream discourse to confront morals and values
  • Process own identity and place in the world
  • Broadens experiences and knowledge
  • Explore human values, morals and ethics
  • Become exposed to ideas, perspectives and experiences of others
  • Widen and challenge perspectives
  • Connect people across time and place
  • Engage with new worlds
  • Reflect on society and culture
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‘Reality Effects’

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  • Roland Barthes
  • Small details of characters, setting and actions to give atmosphere and realism
  • Does not add to plot
  • Adds to audience connection and understanding
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‘Defamiliarisation’

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  • Viktor Shklovsky
  • Disrupts reader’s perception of literary world
  • Familiar element seems new
  • New perspectives and insights
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‘Narrative Durations’

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  • Gerard Genette
  • Scene: real-time
  • Synopsis: speed up
  • Dilation: slow down
  • Ellipsis: flash-forward
  • Pause: complete stop
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Teleological

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Particular purpose

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Diegesis

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Narrative plot, setting and world

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Temporal

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Time and its manipulation

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Metadiegetic structure

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Story within a story

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Metafiction

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Emphasises own construction

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Affective

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Rousing emotions

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Polysemic

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Open-ended and ambiguous

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Amplitude

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Relationship and contrast between what is emphasised and what is not

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Mimetic

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Reflective of reality

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Anti-mimetic

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Distorting actuality

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Iterative

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Grounded in repetition

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Transgressive

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Challenging social confines

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Cohesive

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Connected and holistic

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Transformative

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Altering characters and situations or altering the reader’s perspective

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Historical-biographical criticism

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  • Text reflects historical and personal context
  • Rejects artist agency and creativity
  • Contextual factors shape everything
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Reader-response criticism

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  • Reader shapes meaning through interpretation
  • Authorial intent is irrelevant
  • Reality effects
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Psychoanalytical criticism

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  • Freudian theory
  • Relationship between language and the subconscious to enhance meaning
  • Text expresses author’s subconscious desires and anxieties
  • Id: subconscious aspect that is not externally influenced, and reacts to needs, wants, impulses and desires
  • Superego: controls Id by considering social values and morals
  • Ego: decision-maker and balance between Id and Superego, influenced by Superego to fulfil Id
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Feminist criticism

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  • Gender inequality
  • Gender roles
  • Power relations between genders
  • Social, political, economic and psychological oppression of women
  • Portrayals and representations of women
  • Male gaze and its impact
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Marxist criticism

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  • Relationship between literature and socio-economic factors
  • How power, culture and economics intersect
  • Literature reproduces economic power relations
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Modernist criticism

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  • Progression from traditionalist ideas and values
  • Impact of industrialisation, technology and modernisation
  • Societal change
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Postmodernist criticism

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  • Complexity
  • Contradiction
  • Ambiguity
  • Fragmented identities
  • Identity is a social construct
  • Challenges rationality and collective truth
  • Individualism and sceptisim
  • Effects of ideology, society, and history on society and culture
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Postcolonial criticism

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  • Colonialism’s impact on identity, language, history and representation
  • Postcolonial identity based on social power assigned by colonists
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Structuralist criticism

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  • Linguistic conventions analysed for universal patterns to make conclusions about the text and systems it emerged from such as the author and context
  • Language is stable and has systems that lead to truths
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Poststructuralist criticism

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  • Truth and meaning are unstable
  • Authorial intent can’t be fully known
  • Emphasis on reader interpretation and context
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Deconstructive criticism

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  • Language is indeterminate so meaning is indeterminate

- Texts have contradictory meanings and binary oppositions

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Formalist criticism

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  • Concerned primarily with form
  • Emphasis on HOW things are said rather than WHAT is said
  • Texts are autonomous and self-contained
  • Everything needs to understand a text is within it
  • Defamiliarisation
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New criticism

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  • Texts are autonomous and self-contained
  • Context had little impact
  • Content and form are intertwined
  • Everything needs to understand a text is within it
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‘Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice’ by Nam Le

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  • Private world
  • Ethnic literature
  • Metafiction
  • Inner conflict
  • Detachment from culture and family for assimilation
  • Historical and political allusions
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‘Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood

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  • Public world
  • Feminist criticism
  • Dystopia
  • Suppression of women and sexuality
  • Imposition of patriarchy
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‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ by John Keats

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  • Imaginary world
  • Reader-response criticism
  • Romanticism
  • Literature as a vehicle to new worlds
  • Reader as an explorer
  • Historical Allusions

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