New Critics
What is the best tool for interpretation?
What is close reading.
What is the hermeneutic circle?
What is to understand the part, you must understand the whole, and vice versa.
What is patriarchy?
What is the practice of centering on men.
What did deconstruction influence?
What is current critical thinking.
When did psychoanalysis first attract interest?
When is the 20th century.
What is connotative?
What is symbolizing.
What is synchronic?
What is to consider a language at one time.
What is the goal of feminism?
What is to reverse a pattern in history of not taking women seriously.
What is bracketing?
What is sing words but marking the use as provisional.
What is the analysis shaped by?
What is transference.
What is denotating?
What is the literal meaning.
What is diachronic?
What is to work chronologically, how language changes over time.
What is the first wave of feminism?
What is to focus on establishing women's rights. (right to own property)
Who is Jacques Derrida?
Who is the person that developed a form of semiotic analysis.
What kind of practice is psychoanalysis?
What is a clinical practice.
What is extrinsic criticism?
What is the study of history, philosophy, religion and politics.
What is defamiliarization?
What is to take familiar things and refresh our perspectives on them.
What is the second wave of feminism?
What is to focus on achieving equal rights and sisterhood and shared identity among all women.
What is undecidability?
What is showing how the free play of the text's signifiers goes beyond the capacity of the system to confine it to one meaning
What are key concepts of psychoanalysis?
What is:
-Unconscious
-Repression
-Clinical method
What is the new critics plan?
What is the science of literary study.
What is the goal of structuralism?
What is to describe or interpret the larger system of literature.
What is the third wave of feminism?
What is to make a point of including women of all races.
What is double reading?
What is a two stage reading:
In the first stage, the critic identifies a singular interpretation, free from multiplicity and deconstruction.
In the second stage, the critic finds things that undermine the structure.
What branch of psychology is psychoanalysis?
What is the branch that works in the tradition found by Sigmund Freud.