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| New Criticism can be equated with what term? |
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| Formalists are primarily concerned with what? |
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| HOW the text is put together or how it is "formed," some of this deals with aesthetics. |
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| Psychological Approaches came from who? |
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| An educated explanation for a phenomenon. |
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| Literary Theory is important to what disciplines? |
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| The study of the purpose and use of language. |
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| Who was the Father of Linguistics? |
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| What discipline did we have BEFORE Linguistics? |
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| A reference to something specific. i.e. "cat" would refer to "Bob the Cat," not just any cat. |
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| Do words have referentiality? |
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| No, they are just symbols. One word may mean something different to me than it does to another person. |
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| What is the Medium for Literature? |
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| What are the 2 Paths for Language? |
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1. Communicative
2. Create Literary Art |
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| Explain the Communicative Path for Language |
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| Communication from A to B, to an audience (i.e. textbooks, Conversations) |
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| Explain the Creating Literary Art Path for Language |
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| study of the pleasingness of form (beauty) |
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| We instinctively NEED standards |
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| every aspect will work together well to achieve what the writer has designed as the purpose of the piece |
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| The American Formalist (other than "form") has a big admiration for what? |
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| Formalists acknowledes what about any great literary work? |
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| They may have many different purposes ...or perhaps a purpose followed by different sub-purposes. |
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| Aristotle defines Literature as what? |
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| A "recreated world"; A writer draws his words from his previous experiences in the world; as it is put together in a fictional form, it is NOT a copy of the real world. |
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| What is the technique used by the American New Formalists? |
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| Literally means reading a text, word-for-word, paying attention to every little detail. "Every little detail needs to be there for a purpose." |
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| Focuses on the subconscious motivations |
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well-known for work in psychology, his book was “History of the Systems of Thought”
- Episteme – epistemology, study of knowledge
- Important for New Historicism |
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| New Historicism, he was a historian. |
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| sees Capitalists as monopolists and government is in cahoots with the monopolists. |
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| wrote “Making Strange”…Difference between Literary language and communicative language….his conclusing was that literary language isn’t to be clear. |
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| studied Russian folktales. Story vs. plot. Story (what happens) and the Plot is the structure of the events. |
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| Canadian, Uni. Of Toronto…designed categorization: comedy , romance (Summer), irony/satire, tragedy(Autumn) |
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| structure of narrative….the formula that we can use to define the structure of narrative. |
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| “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” |
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| Speaks of the text as an “event” |
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| Post Structuralism (Also called “Deconstruction”) |
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