Rise of English
This famous British university is associated with the professionalization of English as an academic subject.
What is Cambridge?
The New Critics described this mistake as the erroneous practice of interpreting a text based on the author’s intended meaning rather than the text itself.
What is the intentional fallacy?
In Structuralism, this concept is divided into two parts: the signified and the signifier.
What is a sign?
This French philosopher remains the most influential scholar associated with Deconstruction.
Who is Derrida?
This French historian has been a major figure in recent theory, and his works include The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality, vol. 1.
Who is Foucault?
This British scholar helped make literary studies an academic discipline, and was so influential that his detractors called his students "_____ites."
Who is F. R. Leavis?
Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom--many of the scholars associated with New Criticism lived and worked in this region of the United States.
What is the South?
When I'm thinking of the mental concept of a word, I'm thinking of this idea.
What is the signified?
Deconstruction refers to the slippery, ever-changing quality of language using this term that can mean both "to differ" and "to defer" in French.
What is différance?
Jefferey Williams writes that this term has become the most desirable adjective for scholars working in literary and cultural theory.
What is smart?
This quarterly journal became a significant source of the new literary scholarship being written in the 1920s.
What is Scrutiny?
Don't make this mistake of evaluating a text based on the emotional response it elicits from the reader.
What is the affective fallacy?
When I'm looking at the letters or other symbols that make up a word, I'm looking at this concept.
What is the signifier?
Deconstruction is generally included as one method among others that followed Structuralism--a group referred to by this term.
What is Poststructuralism?
Terry Eagleton describes some of the trends in theory over the last forty years that include New Historicism, Feminist criticism, and this approach, that explores the condition of societies formerly governed by European nations.
She married her literature professor, then went on to become a prominent critic in her own right.
Who is Q. D. Leavis?
Damned if you do, damned if you don't: the New Critics highly valued this type of statement in literature.
What is paradox?
Structuralists say we make meaning through the relationships between words, such as in this type of pairing.
What is a binary opposition?
Dog/Cat, White/Black, Male/Female--Deconstruction suggests that many of these contrasts are this condition (which is truly one half of its own famous pair).
What is false?
Eagleton uses this term to describe approaches to literature that seek to understand the meaning of the text.
What is interpretive?
This approach to literary studies was pioneered by the British scholar William Empson, and has since become the foundational method in English.
What is close reading?
The author’s intentions, the reader’s responses, or the work’s social or historical context--none of these are as important to New Critics as this aspect of literature.
What is the text?
This Swiss linguist defined much of the methodology we refer to as Structuralism
Who is Saussure?
This long word summarizes the idea that Western culture has valued masculinity, presence, and speech over femininity, absence, and writing.
What is phallologocentrism?
Eagleton uses this term for approaches to literature that seek to understand why the literary work matters.
What is metadiscursive?