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Criticize me
Gimme structure
Deconstruction
Psychoanalysis
All of the above
100

The study of literature focused on history, "impressionistic" responses to literature and reading aloud. 

What is Before New Criticism?

100

To describe or interpret the larger system of literature.

What is the Goal of Structuralism?

100
Widens the gap between signifier and signified, examining the distance between the two.

What is Differance?

100

The father of psychoanalysis.

Who is Sigmund Freud?

100
Four theories and methods examined so far, that help to interpret literature.

What is new criticism, structuralism, deconstruction, and psychoanalysis?

200

The detailed and careful interpretation of a text.

What is close reading?

200

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?

200

The concern of how meaning scatters, spreads, and multiplies.

What is Dissemination?

200

The three parts of the structural model.

What is the id, ego, and superego?

200

The critical practice that was radically changed.

What is new criticism?

300

Two errors in how to determine the literary meaning of a text.

What is affective fallacy and intentional fallacy?
300

The link between signifier and signified.

What is Arbitrary?

300

Imitation of the real that ends up being more real than the real.

What is Simulacrum?

300

A defense that is an unconscious repression and refusal to recognize something.

What is denial?

300
The first wave of change that reacts against the new critical methods.

What is structuarlism?

400
Discovering its role of unity in the text.

What is the interpretation of a pattern?

400

The categories of narratology that help differ the tale versus telling. 

What is embedding, reliability, focalization, indirect and direct?

400

Underlying truths that are stable.

What is the Principle of Essence?

400
Preoccupied with one's own concerns can transfer emotions that apply to someone else.

What is transference?

400

The perspective for the analysis of literature and culture.

What is Deconstruction?

500

Finding the balance in a work of literature requires these formal elements. 

What is paradox, ambiguity, tension, and irony?

500

A key concept in structuralism, which is a pair of related terms or concepts that differ in meaning.

What are binary oppositions?

500

The idea that we construct the world through language and cannot conceptualize experience apart from it. 

What is Constructionism?

500
The mechanism that acts as a filter between our unconscious and conscious, and between our dreams and memory of our dreams.

What is dream work?

500

Investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind. 

What is Psychoanalysis?