Ideas About Literature
The Literary Canon
100

He said that literature is "organized violence committed on ordinary speech".

Who is Roman Jakobson?

100

According to Terry Eagleton, this is a construct.

What is the literary canon?

200

A group of people who theorized that literature was defamiliarization.

Who were the Russian Formalists?

200

According to Eagleton, every age appreciates the works of literature according to this.

What are their own values?

300

A particular perspective that considers literature as highly regarded literary writing.

What is "Belles Lettres"?

300

He wrote a book called "Practical Criticism".

Who is I.A. Richards?

400

The unquestioned great tradition of the national literature.

What is the literary canon?

400

I.A. Richards proved the subjectivity of literary value judgements using these people.

Who are undergraduate students?

500

The idea that literature deals with texts that are, like fiction, not true.

What is Imaginative Writing?

500

According to Eagleton, Richards's experiment showed that "critical response" were entwined with the following.

What are the prejudices and beliefs of the students?