Text-Centred Theory
denotes the pairing of contrasting themes, characters, or concepts within a narrative or text. These opposing elements often serve to create conflict, meaning, and structure in literature.
What is binary opposition?
men constructing the concept of woman from their own experience rather than from what women are in reality. Men are the self and subject.
What is the other?
When the people in the lower classes do not fully realise or understand their role in the social hierarchy
What is false consciousness?
form of advertising or marketing spin in which green PR and green marketing are deceptively used to persuade the public that an organization's products, aims and policies are environmentally friendly.
What is green-washing?
cultural, economic, social and political dominance, or what reality is for the majority of people within a given culture
What is hegemony?
Narrators who are also storyworld participants
What is a homogeneous narrator?
dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.
What is misogyny?
relating to objects and even people in terms of anything other than their use value or utility.
What is commodification?
the exclusion of distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings from the conscious mind
What is repression?
treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral
What is marginalisation?
a literary technique that consists of a repeated element that has symbolic significance to a literary work.
What is a motif?
the privileging of the masculine in the construction of meaning
What is phallocentric?
the results of capitalism on the worker; the separation between the worker and others due to exploitation on the job.
What is alienation?
focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as pre-eminent
What is eurocentric?
the action of degrading someone to the status of a mere object
What is objectification?
is a literary device used to create deliberate differences for the reader to compare and contrast
What is juxtaposition?
the act of depicting women and the world from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents women as sexual objects for pleasure.
What is the male gaze?
awareness of one's place in a system of social class, especially (in Marxist terms) as it relates to the class struggle.
What is class consciousness?
when members of a colonized society imitate the language, dress, politics, or cultural attitude of their colonizers
What is colonial mimicry?
denotes the attitudes, beliefs, values, and morals shared by the majority of the people in a given society.
What is dominant ideology?
One element in a binary opposition is often privileged over the other.
What is the privileging the binary?
posits that gender is made up of the acts that mark a person as “man” or “woman” (dress, mannerisms, ect) and it is through the repetition of those gendered acts that the illusion of a stable gender identity is created.
What is gender performativity?
drives us to seek happiness and fulfillment through mindless consumption and serves as a necessary component of capitalist society, which demands mass production and unending sales growth.
What is consumerism?
regards humans as separate from and superior to nature and holds that human life has intrinsic value while other entities (including animals, plants, mineral resources, and so on) are resources that may justifiably be exploited for the benefit of humankind.
What is anthropocentrism?
Literary theory concerned with signs and their relationship with objects and meaning. One way to view signs is to consider them composed of a signifier and a signified.
What is semiotics?