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Instead of using "person" or "individual", literary critics use the term...
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"subject"
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Poststructuralism
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-seeks to demonstrate that the human subject (the "I") is necessarily decentered
-Puts the very idea of the end into question (intertextuality, rereadability) |
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New Criticism
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-the work itself
-the purpose - to explain the work's organic unity -look for: complexity, levels of meaning, oppositions, tensions, ironies, ambiguities, and how all of the above are UNIFIED |
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Reader Responce Criticism
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-the text itself is meaningless without an interpretation by a reader
-readers actively create rather than passively discover the meaning in a text -description of the process of responding -may be individual or shared |
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Structuralist criticism
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-meaning is made by binary oppositions where one item is priviledged
-how exactly it is made, how these oppositions are enforced. |
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Deconstructive criticism
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-meaning is made by binary oppositions where one item is priviledged
-reversing and questioning this favoring -undermine dogmatic thinking, show how the text falls apart. |
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Historical criticism
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-when, where, by whom somth. was written
-can be biographical -distinguishes between literature and "real" life. |
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Psychological criticism
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-make educated guesses about what has been repressed and transformed.
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Feminist criticism
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-the access of genders to literature and being published
- social implications |
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Queer theory
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-how gender is constructed in the text
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Humanism
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what we can observe with our senses can be explained by human investigation and thought
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Humanism - when?
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End of middle ages - beginning of Renaissance.
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