General
Marxism
Feminism
Psychoanalysis--Freud
Formalism
100
What are literary theories/criticisms?
Ways for us to understand texts through different perspectives.
100
This man developed the theory that underlies this style of criticism.
Who is Karl Marx?
100
Feminist criticism is concerned with what?
The representation of women and men in literature.
100
He is the founding father of psychoanalysis.
Sigmund Freud
100
FALSO
True or false, historical data is of primary importance to a formalist.
200
Changes in this allow us to understand texts in a new way.
What is perspective?
200
Marxism seeks to use texts as a means to understand this.
What is social class and power?
200
Knowing the historical context of a text allows us to identify what _______ ___ _________ the text represents.
wave of feminism
200
What is our storehouse of desires -- libidinal and aggressive ones.
Id
200
NOPE
Does a particular reader's interpretation of a work particularly interest formalists in particular?
300
True or false: There is a style of literary criticism that is better than any other.
False
300
Name at least two social classes and describe how they relate to each other.
Lower, middle, upper class.
300
What is the patriarchy?
The ideology that privileges masculine ways of thinking/points of view and marginalizes women socially, politically, economically and psychologically.
300
What are symbols.
Psychoanalytic critics rely on these heavily so as to produce their interpretations.
300
What is a close reading?
The primary method of understanding the text for a formalist.
400
True or False: You can read a text through only one critical lens.
False
400
What is the relationship between social class and power?
Money = power
400
Name a wave of feminism and what its goal was.
1st Wave--women's sufferage, equality between the sexes 2nd Wave--equal working conditions post-WWII, political activism (same time as the Civil Rights Movement) 3rd Wave--inclusive of all experiences, populations
400
According to this theory, writing is a manifestation of
psychological events.
400
Si, bufón
SI O NO: A formalist would care about possible identity of the narrator or speaker in a story or poem.
500
Literature, film, art, ads, etc. are all examples of _____, which we can analyze through critical lenses.
What are texts?
500
Describe at least two context clues we use to identify someone's social class.
Appearance, where they live, their jobs, education level, etc.
500
Name two of the influencers/writers that helped spark the feminist critical movement.
MILL, WOLLSTONECRAFT, STANTON, FULLER
500
Name the three parts of the personality according to Freud and what they represent.
• Id--impulsive, primative (devil on the shoulder) • Ego--maintains balance • Super-ego--conscience, morality, developed/taught by caregivers/society (angel on the shoulder)
500
ANY 3 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE EXAMPLES
Provide 3 examples of language usage important to a formalist.
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