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According to Aristotle's Poetics, the healthy release of emotions that happens to a viewer/reader through watching the completion of a dramatic act |
Catharsis |
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The moment when the protagonist realizes things are different than she thought |
Anagnorisis or Recognition |
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A category of literature, film, music, or tv show, that has specific expectations as a member of that category |
Genre |
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The Greek idea of the literary work being a representation of something in the real world |
Mimesis, Representation, or Imitation |
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The quality of a coherent structure of a literary work |
Organic unity |
Identified with a botanical metaphor |
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According to Aristotle, a proper plot should have what three parts? |
Beginning, Middle, and End |
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The point in the dramatic action of a narrative where fortunes turn |
Reversal |
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According to Aristotle, te most important part of a writers expertise is constructing this |
Plot |
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Four perennial literary problems are: |
1. What does it mean? 2. How does it work/what are it's properties? 3. What is it worth/how do we assess value? 4. What is literature? |
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Key idea in Structuralism, that our minds construct reality through pairs of opposing terms |
Binary oppositions |
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Studying something as it changes through time would be ________ study |
Diachronic |
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Studying something structurally at a specific point in time would be _______ study |
Synchronic |
The kind Structuralists focused on |
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In Structuralist terminology, the language system |
Langue |
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In Structuralist terminology, the individual speech act |
Parole |
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The study of narrative |
Narratology |
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The study of signs and symbols, their use and interpretation |
Semiotics |
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The Structuralist "sign" is made up of these: |
Signifier and Signified |
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The theory that the language we use shapes our thought to a significant degree |
Linguistic Determinism (or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) |
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New Critical term describing paying detailed attention to the structure of the text, or even parts of the text |
Close Reading |
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The logical error, according to New Critics, of assuming that the critic's job is to figure out what the author meant |
Intentional Fallacy |
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The idea, according to New Criticism, that we should judge a work of literature according to the emotional effect in the reader |
Affective fallacy |
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The New Critical idea that form and content cannot be separated |
Heresy of Paraphrase |
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Marx's idea that in a capitalistic society the worker has no connection to what s/he is producing, does not buy it, and cannot use it |
Alienation of labor |
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A wealthy person who invests in trade and industry for profit in accordamce with the principles of capitalism |
Capitalist |
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The working class, in Marxist terminology |
Proletariat |
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According to Mar, the history of the world is the history of ___________ ___________. |
Class Struggle |
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In Marxist theory, the structure of society is formed according to its ___________ ___________. |
Economic base |
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The set of tacit beliefs about reality that, according to Marxist theory, determine the structure of society and people's perception of the world |
Idealogy |
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The idea that the ruling class of society controls the thinking of the masses in such a way as to maintain their power |
Hegemony |
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In Marxist theory, the value an object has according to how it is used |
Use Value |
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In Marxist theory, the value an object has according to how much it costs or can he sold for |
Exchange value |
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The status value of an object in Marxist theory |
Sign-exchange value |
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The young poet's fear that his work will be only derivative of the precursors |
Anxiety of Influence |
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School of literary criticism that analyzes literary influence though an Oedipal lens |
Revisionism |
Associated with Harold Bloom |
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The wave of feminism that focused on women's suffrage and basic rights like right to education and property ownership |
1st wave feminism |
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The wave of feminism that focused on sisterly solidarity, equal pay for equal work, reexamining the literary canon for how male texts represented women, how female writers represented themselves, and discovering a female literary tradition |
2nd wave feminism |
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The wave of feminism associated with paying attention to differentiating women |
3rd wave feminism |
For example, by class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc |
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The female counterpart, according to Gilbert and Gubar, of make anxiety of influence |
Anxiety of Authorship |
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Raymond Williams's term for the segment of culture that is most in touch with the previous culture (or retro) |
Residual |
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The part of culture, in Williams's terms, that is oppositional to the dominant culture and is looking forward |
Emergent |
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The part of culture, in Williams's terms, that is mainstream |
Dominant |
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The name of the theoretical collection of all the great works of literature |
The canon |
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Name for a male-dominated culture |
Patriarchy |
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Dislike of, hatred for, prejudice, or contempt against women |
Misogyny |
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The ability to make choices, act, or be self-determining |
Agency |
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Important term associated with a book by Judith Fetterly (1978) about how female readers should not passively accept the "male" role that canonical American fiction places them in |
The Resisting Reader |
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In Revisionism, the designation for the modern poet |
The Ephebe |
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In Revisionism, the designation for the classic poet who intimidates the modern poet |
The Precursor |
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In Revisionism, the feeling of the modern poet that he has arrived too late on the literary scene, when everything great has already been accomplished |
Belatedness |
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Bloom's term for the ephebe's fear of being a mere imitation of the precursor |
The Anxiety of Influence |
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A critical movement in which the literary tradition is seen as a genealogy of authors in which later authors "rewrite" previous authors |
Revisionism |
Associated with Harold Bloom |
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A theory that considers that the various aspects of humanity (such as class, race, sexual orientation, and gender) do not exist separately from each other, but are complexly interwoven, and that their relationships are essential to an understanding of the human condition |
Intersectionality |
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Lyotard's term for all-encompassing systems which explain human nature and history (such as Christianity, Marxism, or Psychoanalysis) |
Grand Narrative |
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The idea that meaning depends on a particular historical context in which it occurs |
Situatedness |
A concept widely invoked in New Historicism, Postcolonialism, and other schools of the last 30 years |
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The term Butler uses to explain gender as devolving from the actions one takes, rather than an inner core of identity |
Performativity |
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The belief that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (male and female) with natural roles in life |
Heteronormativity |
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Butler's term for the idea that society posits a number of rules as natural to identity, but they are really abitrarily imposed and artificial. She calls these rules "_______ _______." |
Regulatory Fictions |
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The idea that our gender (or some other trait) comes out of our core, biological being, rather than being (mainly) produced by our environment |
Biological Essentialism |
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Treating humans, nature, or objects merely according to their financial possibilities |
Commodification |
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Original models or categories of persons or things that, according to Jung, derive from the Collective Unconscious |
Archetypes |
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Plato's story to represent the difference between the reality we perceive and actual reality |
Allegory of the Cave |
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Marxism as study by professors, without application to actual societies |
Academic Marxism |
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Term used by narratologists to identify the chronological facts of a story (as opposed to the ordering of the plot in a particular version) |
Histoire |
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Term used by narratologists to identify the ordering of the plot and general telling of a tale in a particular artistic vision |
Recit |
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Fear of entering open or crowded places |
Agoraphobia |
Used by Susan Bordo as an example of of how the patriarchy shaped American women in the 1950s |
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The term Bordo (and others) used to describe the condition of women being emotionally volatile to the point of using their reason |
Hysteria |
Bordo uses this concept as a ln example of patriarchal oppression |
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An early ng disorder that Bordo uses to talk about oppressive patriarchy and the ideal of the female hyper slenderness in the late 20th century |
Anorexia |
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Aristotle's basic term, later adopted by Structuralist, to represent the study of the literary system and how it operates, or a particular genre and how it operates |
Poetics |
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Leavis's book title and label for an elite literary history |
The Great Tradition |
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Key term from Foucault having to do with how society pressures its members to behave and think within certain parameters |
Normalization |
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Disinterestedness |
Arnold |
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Disinterestedness |
Arnold |
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Hermeneutics |
The task/methodology of interpreting a text |
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Disinterestedness |
Arnold |
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Hermeneutics |
The task/methodology of interpreting a text |
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Misprision |
Concealing one’s knowledge, bad judgement |
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The art of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar way to enhance perception of the familiar. |
Defamiliarization |
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