The study of literature focused on history, "impressionistic" responses to literature and reading aloud.
What is Before New Criticism?
To describe or interpret the larger system of literature.
What is the Goal of Structuralism?
What is Differance?
The father of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
What is new criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis?
The detailed and careful interpretation of a text.
What is close reading?
Figuring out how texts work and the theory of the literature by paying close attention to the codes and convictions which allows literature to be interpreted.
What is Grammar of Literature?
The concern of how meaning scatters, spreads, and multiplies.
What is Dissemination?
The three parts of the structural model.
What is the id, ego, and superego?
The critical practice that was radically changed.
What is new criticism?
Two errors in how to determine the literary meaning of a text.
The link between signifier and signified.
What is Arbitrary?
Imitation of the real that ends up being more real than the real.
What is Simulacrum?
A defense that is an unconscious repression and refusal to recognize something.
What is denial?
What is structuarlism?
What is the interpretation of a pattern?
The categories of narratology that help differ the tale versus telling.
What is embedding, reliability, focalization, indirect and direct?
Underlying truths that are stable.
What is the Principle of Essence?
What is transference?
The perspective for the analysis of literature and culture.
What is Deconstruction?
Finding the balance in a work of literature requires these formal elements.
What is paradox, ambiguity, tension, and irony?
A key concept in structuralism, which is a pair of related terms or concepts that differ in meaning.
What are binary oppositions?
The idea that we construct the world through language and cannot conceptualize experience apart from it.
What is Constructionism?
What is dream work?
Investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind.
What is Psychoanalysis?