New Criticism
Structuralism
Deconstruction
Psychoanalysis
Terms & Concepts
100

New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the ____ Century

20th Century

100

The study of narrative

Narratology

100

Deconstruction goes off of the understanding that all books / readings differ from text and ______

Meaning

100

The father of this literary theory / criticism

Sigmund Freud

100

A belief that things have a set of characteristics which make them what they are

Essentialism

200

New criticism is most basically defined as

How a work of literature functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object.

200

The literary tool that is used to differ a tale vs telling, someone who the story is being spoken through

Narration

200

Ideals of deconstruction mainly focus on the understanding of different _____

Cultures and heritage

200

Psycho analysis most basically is the understanding of

What makes a person do or act the way that they do

200

Know by her pen pall name with the idea that women should be equal to men

bell hooks

300

The best tool for interpreting new criticism

Close Reading

300

This literary tool is used in structuralism known for being a story told inside a story

Embedding / Nesting

300

Cultures all have an underlying belief that their own culture compared to author (if from another time or culture) is ________ before understanding their reasoning or interpretation

Not the same / incorrect 

300

The three component parts of the mind

Id, ego, and superego
300

The primitive and instinctive component of personality

Id

400

New criticism has been said to be very similar but not the same as this other literary concept

Formalism

400

This is any word that pops up in a persons mind when they see the connecting object (a sign's physical form)

Signifier

400

Deconstruction most basically runs off the understanding of culture and _____

Time period

400

Psychoanalysis goes with literary theory as it also does this study of science

Psychology

400

The part of a person's mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards learned from parents and teachers.

Superego

500

Considered by most to be the father of new criticism, and the first to study literary theory as a science

Ivor Armstrong Richards, also known as I. A. Richards

500

When saying a word, it represents the connecting physical object you are speaking of (the meaning or idea expressed by a sign)

Signified

500

Deconstruction was originated by the philosopher 

Jacques Derrida

500

Literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a _________________

manifestation of the author's own neuroses

500

English professor that has the well know idea of that all facts are solid grounding for rule of law 

Diana Fuss