The century in which English became accepted as a legitimate university discipline.
What is the late nineteenth century?
100
The major themes present in The Tempest.
What is power and betrayal?
100
The phrase referring to the idea that the author is no longer the all-important authority who determines the single correct meaning of a literary work.
What is "death of the author"?
100
A unifying element in an artistic work, particularly any recurrent image, symbol, theme, character type, subject, or narrative detail.
What is a motif?
100
The time period in which "the pluralization of critical perspectives" in English study occurred.
What is from the 1970's to the present?
200
This 1876 research institution paved the way for the rise of academic disciplines today.
What is Johns Hopkins?
200
A model of common patterns in the plots of stories developed by a Nineteenth Century German novelist.
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
200
The genre of The Tempest
What is Romance?
200
The evocation in a narrative of scenes or events that took place at an earlier point in the story; commonly equated with flashback.
What is analepsis?
200
In drama, this means a change or revolution which produces the conclusion.
What is catastrophe?
300
The focus of the New Critics.
What is the text itself?
300
At least three parts of Freytag's Pyramid.
What is exposition, rising action, falling action, and denouncement? (also important are inciting incident/climax/and resolution or catastrophe)
300
The interdisciplinary field which sets literature, tv, music, etc. in their social, political and historical context.
What is cultural studies?
300
In a modern theatre, the front part of the stage; in the past, referred to the whole stage.
What is the proscenium?
300
The primary methodology the New Critics.
What is "close reading"?
400
Recognizing that every way of reading brings with it presuppositions & that there is no one right way to interpret a text are two key components of this.
What is literary theory?
400
This character plots with Antonio to kill Alonso.
Who is Sebastian?
400
The study of interpretation itself.
What is hermeneutics?
400
From the Greek for “lessening”; a term referring to the deliberate use of understatement.
What is meiosis?
400
Reading by concentrating on words on the page.
What is intrinsic reading?
500
This approach to literature requires that the reader demonstrate sensibility, a natural response which just "happens" when a text is read.
What is the "Leavis method"?
500
The gods and goddesses presented in Prospero's spectacle.
Who are Juno, Ceres, and Iris?
500
This approach to literature see the text more like a window on the world; they are most often interested in what the text tells us about people and the world outside the text.
What is extrinsic?
500
The omission of part of a word, typically a letter, such as “e’re” and “o’re”; often used to make verse conform to a metrical pattern, though it sometimes appears in prose as well.
What is elision?
500
Robert Eaglestone calls literature something that _____ or _____ from any attempt to limit it or put it in a box.
What is overflows or escapes. The important thing here is that literature really can't be defined.