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Who were some of the members of the Moscow Linguistic Circle
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Roman Jakobson, Jan Mukarovsky, Peter Bogatyrev, and G.O. Vinokur.
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Why were the opponents of Russian Formalism in favor of the term “Russian Formalism”
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It deprecated the RF’s supposedly strict methodological approach to literary interpretation.
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Who was Ferdinand de Saussure
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A french linguist and founder of modern linguistics.
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What was Saussure’s contribution to Russian Formalism
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His method of learning, looking at the form of literature. It’s devices and features.
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Who was Viktor Shklovsky
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He was a russian formalist who coined Defamiliarization (making odd the familiar)
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How do Russian Formalists define text
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A unified collection of various literary devices and convention that can be objectively analyzed.
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How do you describe the mandate of the Prague Linguistic Circle
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Continuing the work of the RF in Czechoslovakia.
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Who was Vladimir Propp
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A russian folklore scholar.
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Explain the relationship between Russian Formalism and New Criticism.
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Anglo-American criticism. Similar beliefs but formed on its own.
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What is meant by “close readers of texts”
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Those who follow the New Criticism way of reading and interpreting texts.
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Who was John Crowe Ransom
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A critic, a leading advocate of the new criticism movement. He published a book called The New Criticism which made the term popular.
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What is meant by “ontological critic”
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one who recognizes that a poem is a complete entity.
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What are some of the other names by which New Criticism is known
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Modernism, Formalism, Aesthetic criticism, textual criticism or ontological criticism.
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What is meant by “extrinsic analysis”
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Analysing details outside of the text to discover the meanings
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What are “impressionistic critics”
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Those who appreciate a text for its beauty.
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What is the “expressive school”
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Romantic criticism, values the individual artist’s experiences
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Name some of the New Critics.
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John Crowe Random, Rene Wellek, William K. Wimsatt, Monroe Beardsley.
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How does T. S. Eliot define poetry
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Not a freeing of the poet’s emotions. But an escape for the,.
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What is meant by “objective correlative”
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A set of objects, a situation, a chain of events or reactions that can effectively awaken in the reader the emotional response the author desires without being a direct statement of that emotion,.
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What is meant by “organic unity”
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All parts of the work are interconnected and work together to support the central idea
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How do you describe “Heresy of Paraphrase”
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No simple paraphrase can equal the meaning of a poem.
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How does Saussure describe the word
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Saussure describes the word as having two sides. This being the sound pattern and then the concept of the word.
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How does Saussure distinguish between language and speech
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Speech sounds are only instruments of thought. Language is an established system and an evolution.
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How does Saussure describe language
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He describes language as having an individual aspect and a social aspect. Language is an established system. It is the result of the past.
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