New Criticism
Structuralism
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A more detailed approach to reading a text, drawing evidence from the words on the page

What is close reading?

100

When english-language literary critics began drawing on the structuralist approach

When was 1970?

100

Deconstructionist interpretation usually follows this concept

What is "double reading"?

100

The founder of psychoanalysis

Who is Sigmund Freud?

100

In short stories, binary oppositions can be used to develop this integral aspect of story arching

What are conflicts?

200

Similar to paradox, this term refers to multiple and unsettled meanings

What is ambiguity?

200

The concept of juxtaposing different concepts against each other

What is binary opposition?

200

Deconstructionists believe that every meaning cannot settle in a stable structure, described by this term

What are "internal contradictions"?

200

This term is used to describe the part of your brain that is asleep while you are actively awake, and comes alive while you dream (can be used to analyze characters)

What is the unconscious?

200

Victor Shklovsky's first used this term to describe how literature can refresh the readers mind on familiar concepts

What is defamiliarization?

300

A term that refers to an expression or an event that has a different connotative and denotative meaning 

What is irony?

300

Icon, index, and symbols are all apart of this structuralist theory

What is Pierce's Theory? 

300

The method of deconstruction took over during this decade

When were the 1970's?

300

During psychoanalysis, this term is used to describe when an analysand can transfer emotions that do not directly apply with themselves

What is "transference"?

300

Close reading is often utilized in order to obtain the most evidence that the text can provide. This is important because it allows the reader to follow this aspect of a character 

What is character development/building?

400

These authors from the 1900's wrote Understanding Poetry, Understanding Fiction, and Understanding Drama.

Who are Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren?

400

Structuralist believe that reality is not made up of underlying essences, but rather believe reality is 

What is "constructed"?

400

Baudrillard refers to this concept as a simulation of the real becomes more real than actual reality

What is the "hyperreal"?

400

The ego, the id, and the superego are all part of this model that provides a basic outlook on character/personality development

What is the tripartite model?

400

Psychoanalysis' main purpose in literature is the interpretation of how the writing was built by using this 

What are an author's "unconscious desires"?

500

In what decade did new criticism take over?

When were the 1950's?

500

This concept of structuralism says that the conventions, and not the author, write the work

What is "death of the author"?

500

Deconstructionists and constructionists both object to being a part of this method

What is essentialism?

500

Term used to describe when a person feels a since of conflict, such as confronting a stranger or an enemy. Symbolic

What is an "imagined community"?

500

All of the method/categories mentioned all have this term in common; all working towards a similar goal

What is "literary analysis"?

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