New Criticism
A more detailed approach to reading a text, drawing evidence from the words on the page
What is close reading?
When english-language literary critics began drawing on the structuralist approach
When was 1970?
Deconstructionist interpretation usually follows this concept
What is "double reading"?
The founder of psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
In short stories, binary oppositions can be used to develop this integral aspect of story arching
What are conflicts?
Similar to paradox, this term refers to multiple and unsettled meanings
What is ambiguity?
The concept of juxtaposing different concepts against each other
What is binary opposition?
Deconstructionists believe that every meaning cannot settle in a stable structure, described by this term
What are "internal contradictions"?
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?
Victor Shklovsky's first used this term to describe how literature can refresh the readers mind on familiar concepts
What is defamiliarization?
A term that refers to an expression or an event that has a different connotative and denotative meaning
What is irony?
Icon, index, and symbols are all apart of this structuralist theory
What is Pierce's Theory?
The method of deconstruction took over during this decade
When were the 1970's?
During psychoanalysis, this term is used to describe when an analysand can transfer emotions that do not directly apply with themselves
What is "transference"?
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?
These authors from the 1900's wrote Understanding Poetry, Understanding Fiction, and Understanding Drama.
Who are Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren?
Structuralist believe that reality is not made up of underlying essences, but rather believe reality is
What is "constructed"?
Baudrillard refers to this concept as a simulation of the real becomes more real than actual reality
What is the "hyperreal"?
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?
Psychoanalysis' main purpose in literature is the interpretation of how the writing was built by using this
What are an author's "unconscious desires"?
In what decade did new criticism take over?
When were the 1950's?
This concept of structuralism says that the conventions, and not the author, write the work
What is "death of the author"?
Deconstructionists and constructionists both object to being a part of this method
What is essentialism?
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"?
All of the method/categories mentioned all have this term in common; all working towards a similar goal
What is "literary analysis"?