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Mimetic |
> 16th&17th > Text - Context/Universe >mimesis -> the imitation of reality (major function of literature) >not factual truth but proable truth >literature transforms conceptions of reality with the helo of astehtic means |
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Pragmatic |
>18th >Horace: pleasure&profit -> literature provides an aesthic experience >reader should profit from literature by experiencing certain emotions |
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Expressiv |
>19th >Text - Author >literature: author's subjective expression of his/her emotions and imagination -> gives an insight of the author's personality > author's inner self |
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Poetic |
>20th >Text as self-referential product Edgar Allan Poe: literature is a purely astehtic object with no reference to reality -> creating a world of it's own (Art for Art's sake) Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates life" |
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extrinsic |
all the information you can use to interpret the text |
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instrinsic |
all the information the text gives you |
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Oxford English Dictionary: |
Everything that's written is literautre |
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A glossary for the Study of English: |
the definition depends upon what literary theory is considered |
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The Harper Handbook: |
strictly anything written -> however nowadays we include oral tales as well > creative writings/works of the imagination |
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Terene Eagleton - All in All: |
>literature is non-pragmatic discourse >serves no immediate practical purpose >some texts may start off as history/philosophy & then become to be ranked as literature or vice versa |
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Literary Criticism |
>describes, analyses, interprets, and evalutes literary works into two basic: 1. the reader records his subjective impression of the texts. 2. presents an approach that explain its question terms of analysis in theoretically informed criticism -> critique |
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Literary Theory |
what is theory,how does it come into existence and what does if for which reason > suggest a particular approach >raises our awarness of what we're doing when we read literature, provides us with new perspectives/concepts to analyse texts |
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Literary History |
reconstructs the delevopment of literature, taking in account theoretical assumptions, criticism + historical context |
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Positivism |
>Author-centred approach -biological approach: records objective facts about an author's life and time which are considered to be the cause of his/her literary output > Texts are more complex than mere mirrors of life and reality |
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Psycoanalysis |
>Author-centred approach >Siegmund Freud: super-Ego (social+cultural norms) / conscious ; id (individual drives) / unconscious ; rational ego (-> tries to mediate btw the other twos) / consciousness >dominant focus of sexuality, repression and the unconscious literary texts are like dreams -> express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author |
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New Cristism |
> Code-centred approach - instrinct approach: close reading (independet of authorial intentions, historical circumstances & effects upon the reader) |
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Formalism/Structuralism |
code-centred approach: > more interested in the general (linguistic) features >Concept of a fixed system of language >system of binary oppositions |
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Deconstructivism/Poststructuralism |
>Argumentsare based on puns or word-plays > Structuralismas a base, but it goes further >Paradoxes,contradictions |
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Reader response theory |
>Text-Reader approaches > Any analysis and interpretation dependsupon the reader of the text > A texts consists of what is said and gaps of indeterminacy („Leerstellen“) which are filled by every reader in different ways. |
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Old Historicism |
>Text-Context approach >Sees literature as a creative response to certain historical circumstances. >History forms the background of literature >focuses only on the main ideologies of the time |
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New Historicism |
>Text - Context approach > New Historicism is anti-establishment. >Defamiliarizes the canon >Texts circulate social and cultural energies rather that mirroring society |
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Marxist critism |
>Talks about conflicts between social classes and clashes of large historical forces
>Relates the context of a work to the social-class status of the author >Explain the nature of a genre in terms of the social period which produced it |
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Feminism |
>See biological sex versus cultural constructs of gender
>Revalue women‘s experience >Females as objects of male gaze and power >Rethink the canon |
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Postcolonialism |
>Denies essential humanism and sees it as an expression of white Eurocentric norms and practices.
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