New Criticism
When we pair the writing of a history of Vietnam with the narrative of Catfish and Mandala, reading one text in relationship to the other, we practice this.
What is intertextuality?
Feminists challenge this ideological belief that women are innately inferior to men.
What is sexism or (the more forceful term) misogyny?
"The Man with the Twisted Lip" is to the Holmes' detective series as the surface structure is to this.
What is the deep structure?
When we analyze how frequently authors represent female characters interacting with one another and speaking about issues other than relationships with men, we borrow this strategy from popular culture.
What is the Bechdel test?
Although Larsen's novella uses flashbacks and present moments to tell the story of Irene and Clare. To understand all their experiences, we must organize the events of the novella using this strategy.
What is diachronic?
Feminist borrow this concept from film theory to critique how female characters are objectified in literature.
What is the male gaze?
In Borderlands, Gloria Anzaldúa analyzes her own dreams in great detail and how they help her understand things that are latent in her unconscious. She uses this Freudian process.
What is dream work?
Although influenced by structuralist concepts, deconstruction rejects structuralist assumptions about unified meaning in favor of multiplicity of meaning. Thus deconstruction joins other critical approaches under this label.
What is poststructuarlism?
When we carefully analyze Irene Redfield, we look at what she says (direct discourse) and what she thinks (indirect discourse). But it some cases we cannot distinguish Irene from the narrator because of this strategy.
What is free indirect discourse?
Feminist reader-response critics reject the assumed universality of stories that focus on male characters. Instead, by becoming this kind of reader, they challenge the male narrative and expose how female characters are silenced, objectified, or erased.
What is resisting reader?
Reader-response criticism asserts that a reader's emotional response to a text can contribute to the meaning of the text. In contrast, new criticism developed this theory that rejects the role of emotions in interpretation.
What is the affective fallacy?
Unhappy in marriage and his career, Brian Redfield projects his unfulfilled desires on a yearning for Brazil. He uses this psychic process.
What is displacement?
A deconstructionist would be fascinated by Conan Doyle's "The Dancing Men" and Holmes's efforts to tie these symbols to meaning. The story illustrates how this is always floating freely away from the signified.
What is the signifier?
As we read through Borderlands, we slowly learn the different aspects of Gloria and her family through different parts of her life. To understand Gloria, we need to understand each of these parts. This classic philosophical principle is called.
What is the hermeneutic circle?
Throughout Borderlands, Gloria Anzaldúa constantly makes connections among different forms of discrimination based on culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Her work paved the way for this feminist concept.
What is intersectionality?