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11 Cards in this Set
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Deconstructionism
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-every text has many, contradictory meanings
-binary oppositions (one positive, one negative view) thrown into question |
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Eco-Criticism
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-relationship between literature and physical environment
-relationship between setting and plot -concept of wildnerness |
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Feminist Criticism
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-women relegated in inferior position in society
-language as a tool of male domination -examine how female characters portrayed- exposing implicit patriarchal ideology |
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Marxist Criticism
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-literature viewed as product of class ideology
-reflect, promote, challenge prevailing social order -material product to be understood in broad historical terms *economics |
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New Criticism (American Formalism)
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-self-contained, self-referential object
-close reading! relationships w/i text give its own distinctive form -structure=meaning |
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New Historicism
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-redefine boundaries of historical inquiry
-see history as vast web of economic, social, political factors -echoing pop culture |
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Psychoanalytic Theory
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-nature of unconscious mind
-authors create works that appeal to readers' repressed fantasies |
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Reader-Response Criticism
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-seek to explain diversity of readers' responses to lit
-subjectivity of literary interpretation -only exists meaningfully in mind of reader |
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Dialogism
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-interplay of various characters' voices
-no view given superiority over others |
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Postcolonialism
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-decline of colonialism, lessening of domination by Euro empires
-examines culture of former colonies -challenges: resurrecting culture, combat preconceptions of the world |
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Archetypal/Myth Criticism
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-view lit as recurrences of certain archetypes, essential myths
-"primordial images," "psychic residue" -repeated experiences in lives of human race |
