New Critics
New Criticism was created in response to this
What is the historical critics
This is a key concept which interprets the world by juxtaposing different concepts against each other
What are binary oppositions
This is a two-stage reading system, the first stage identifies a single interpretation free of deconstruction, then in the second, that interpretation is undermined
What is double reading
The concept is not just beneath consciousness but totally without awareness
What is the unconscious
This pair of authors created a new critical textbook that was called "Understanding Poetry"
Who are Cleanth Brooks and Robert Warren
According to the New Critics, this is the best way to develop interpretation
This is the study of culture apart from linguistics or literature
What is Semiology
This shows how meanings cannot settle into stable structures with a singular meaning
What are internal contradictions
The idea of saying anything that comes to the mind no matter how irrelevant or random the information or thought may seem
What is to free associate
This person was the founder of structural linguistics, and came up with the principle of binary opposition
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure
These are three of the key concepts of close reading
What are paradox, patterns, and unity (also ambiguity, tension, irony, and symbols)
The "sign" refers to the link between these two concepts
What are the signifier and signified
This made up word means that there is always a gap between signifier and signified, keeping all meaning unstable
What is the differance
This occurs when an analysand conveys emotions onto the analyst that are meant for another person
What is transference
He is the intellectual force and founding figure of Decontruction
Who is Jacques Derridia
This term refers to a work of literature grows naturally and is self-sufficient
What is the organic whole
This concept revolves around the thought that, to understand the part, we need to understand the whole, and to understand the whole we need to understand the part
What is the hermeneutic circle
This is the simulation or imitation of the real that grows more real than the real
What is the hyperreal
This occurs when the analyst masks their perception and convey emotions onto the analysand
This psychoanalyst that believed people are born in polymorphous perversity, and who tried to transform neurotic suffering into ordinary unhappiness
Who is Sigmund Freud
This form of criticism calls for a focus on the text itself
What is in intrinsic criticism
This concept that the author does not write the work, the system of literature writes the work
What is the death of the author
This is the sense of mobile and non-essential real
What is the simulacra
This gets in between the unconscious and the dream and then in between the dream and the memory of the dreams
What is dream work
Who is Jacques Lacan