The Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism Flashcards
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (I953) is written by?
M H Abrams
Who was of the view that History is built on accidental details, but poetry rises above the description of particulars to represent universal truth about nature
Aristotle
“pleasure with usefulness”
Horace
According to medieval theorists, there are four levels of allegorical interpretation of the Bible. They are?
the literal, or historical;
the allegorical, or spiritual;
the tropological, or moral;
the anagogical, or mystical.
What does gloss (derived from exegesis) mean?
Gloss (Are elucidations of individual words or phrases, written in the margins or between the lines of a text)
what does commentary (derived from exegesis) stand for?
Commentary (Commentaries are much more extensive textual expositions, appearing at first as local and marginal remarks (like footnotes) but later produced as freestanding continuous texts)
who believed that Human language is divinely ordained reflection of logos, what is logos?
Augustine, logos means word of god
name the defenders of ancient authors during the renaissance. (patriots of Greek and Latin)
Julius Caesar Scaliger, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Pierre Corneille, Ludovico Castelvetro
Name the modernists of the renaissance (vernacular defenders)
Philip Sydney, George Puttenham, Giraldi, Mazzoni, Joachim Du Bellay, Pierre De Ronsard
According to Marx, human history can be dived into how many successive means of production?
Human history can be divided into seven successive modes of production: Tribal hordes Neolithic kinship societies Oriental despotism ancient slaveholding societies Feudalism Capitalism Communism
Lumpenproletariat means?
Lumpenproletariat: the non-working, unemployed
According to Marxist theory, what constitutes the base and superstructure of a society?
socioeconomic elements of society constitute its base (or foundation) cultural spheres (specifically its politics, law, religion, philosophy; and arts) compose its superstructure.
what is false consciousness?
Members of the working class who ascribe to bourgeois ideas and values exhibit false consciousness
Louis Althusser coined the term “Ideological State Apparatuses” (ISAs), what does it mean?
Non-violent stabilizing and consensus-building institutions such as a church, school, family, the media, the mainstream arts, trade unions, business interests.
Heteroglossia is a term by whom and what does it mean?
Bakhtin, it is the stratification of language into dialects, different dialects; generational slangs, professional argots, speech genres’, group codes, literary genres, and class mannerisms
Name an example of work where heteroglossia is used?
Ulysses by James Joyce
Anti Oedipus is a book by?
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
L’ecriture feminine - is a term coined by?
By Hélène Cixous in The Laugh of the Medusa (1976), meaning literally “femininewriting.”
The anxiety of influence is a work by?
Harold Bloom
The word ‘misprision’ means?
mistaken, misrepresented, misread
“purposiveness without purpose” is associated with
Immanuel Kant
“The Heresy of Paraphrase” is the title of a chapter in which seminal work?
The Well-Wrought Urn, a seminal work of the New Criticism by Cleanth Brooks
Who is associated with the Notion of significance
E D Hirsch Jr
According to E D Hirsch, what is the difference between meaning and significance
meaning: construed as a fixed, self-identical, reproducible object derived from the author’s intention
Significance: which builds on meaning, adds the reader’s personal associations, interests, values, and contexts
