Formalism
True or False: Formalism focuses on the form of the text rather than the author's life or culture it was created.
True
True or False: Reader-Response is a reader's opinion of a text.
False
True or False: Psychoanalytic Criticism is not diagnosing a character in the text.
True
Walter believes he is in this place when he is at the nursing home in Ch. 15.
What is death row?
A case which ruled that the dismissal of jurors cannot be on the basis of race.
What is Batson v. Kentucky?
This word means to link or reference another body of literature in the text you are reading.
What is an allusion?
This is the type of reader who is currently reading the text.
What is the actual reader?
These are the two options in which you can focus a psychoanalytic analysis for a text you are reading.
Who is the author or the characters?
Walter McMillian was diagnosed with this chronic disorder which affected his memory.
What is dementia?
A case which banned mandatory life without parole for all juveniles (however, it did not ban life sentences for everyone).
What is Miller v. Alabama?
These are the three main features of formalism.
What are Form, Unity, and Diction?
This type of reader is part of the group that the theme, message, or moral is directed towards.
What is the implied or intended reader?
This psychological theorist is responsible for the idea of the unconscious mind, and also the Id, Ego, and Superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
In Ch. 16, the lady in the courtroom refers to Bryan as this word after he finished helping get Joshua Carter and Robert Caston released from prison.
What is a stonecatcher?
A case in which the Supreme Court banned the death penalty for those who committed a crime prior to the age of 18.
What is Roper v. Simmons?
This word is defined as the subtle, commonly accepted meanings of words and it can be either positive or negative.
What is connotation?
The following points are part of this assumption for the Reader-Response literary lens.
1) Literature exists only when it is read.
2) Literary meaning is created by the interaction of the reader and the text.
What are theoretical assumptions?
Is the following an essential question for psychoanalytical reading: What do you learn about the character from the way other characters relate to him or her?
Yes
In the epilogue, what is the real question that Bryan believes that people should ask of capital punishment?
Do we deserve to kill?
A case which provided clear evidence that the race of a victim is the greatest predictor of who gets the death penalty.
What is McCleskey v. Kemp?
Is the following a formalist question: Does the use of paradoxes and/or irony help create tension or conflict in the text?
Yes
According to this person, who is also responsible for creating the Reader-Response method, a poem is “what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text.”
Who is Louise Rosenblatt?
Lawrence Kohlberg is responsible for developing this psychological theory.
What is Moral Development?
In Ch. 15, Bryan has a breakdown and contemplates whether he should quit EJI, but Bryan understands he does what he does because he is this.
What is broken?
A case in which the Supreme Court ruled that people under the age of 18 cannot be sentenced to die in prison for nonhomicide offenses, such as accidental deaths.
What is Graham v. Florida?