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Moved the study of literature to focus on rigorous, systematic interpretation
What is new criticism?
Who focused on history, impressionism, moralism, and reading out loud?
What are old critics?
A basic and defining set of characteristics that do not change across time and geography
What is an essence?
Process of transforming dream-latent thoughts and manifest dream content into a dream
What is dream work?
These express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author and manifest the author’s own neuroses
What are dreams?
Goal was to uncover a grammar of literature [a poetics of literature], that is, a theory of texts and textuality itself
What is structuralism?
A system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it
What is a patriarchy?
A detailed and careful interpretation of a text, paying attention to the text itself, to the words on the page
What is close reading?
Juxtaposing different concepts against each other to interpret the world for understanding
What is binary oppositions?
New critics searched for redefinition of work of literary studies and professional identity derived from...
What is scholarly engagement?
Focused on how the meaning of language in any given text is unstable, complex, and not unified
What is deconstruction?
They find the meaning as to why the mind analyzes an event, person, and more, through deconstructing the unconscious mind through a conscious one
What is a psychoanalyst?
Dislike, contempt, or ingrained prejudice against women
What is misogyny?
New critics find balance and unity in a text through patterns and...
What is symbols?
To highlight that the way legal and institutional structures respond to identity is too narrow and it needs to expand to recognize the intersections of race/class/gender/age/ ethnicity/etc.
What is intersectionality?
Focused on “images of women” in male authored texts and later in female-authored texts and judges the work according to whether it provides positive images of women
What is feminism?
They wanted to figure out a theory of literature and how texts work
What are structuralists?
The 3 parts of the psychoanalysis structural model
The steps to this method are decentering, double reading, putting terms under erasure.
What is deconstruction?
To learn how meaning scatters, spreads, multiplies, or is lost.
What is dissemination?
Investigating the mental processes, which are almost inaccessible in any other way, that have an effect on how we interpret literature
What is psychoanalysis?
They keep an eye on the ways that people in any given group differ from each other and on the many identities one person may express
What is a non-essentialist?
Refers to suggestively multiple and unsettled meanings
What is ambiguity?
Feminist exposed patriarchal abuse, focused on women's subjectivity and...
What is expanded the cannon?
This links the signifier and the signified