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| Those who focus on the individual reader's experience an interpretation |
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| those who conduct psychological experiments on a set of readers |
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| assume similar responses by all readers |
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| a group of readers together in a reading environment sometimes for extended periods of time |
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| the meaning of the text is a result of the interaction between a reader and the text |
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| the lit is determinate - contains instructions for processing - and interdeterminate - has "gaps" that are completed by the reader |
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| the reader interprets the text based on his perspective of the world, keeping in mind the context of the lit |
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reader's subconscious and conscious motives can be explained through examination of meaning distortion.
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| a collection of critics that shar political/ideological beliefs |
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| reader has sufficient knowledge of historical context and genre from which the work originated and the resulting structural connotation of the text |
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| finding a single def or a guarantee of all meanings |
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| a philosophical puzzle; an expression of doubt |
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| underlying themes or ideas in works of lit that are not blatantly stated by the author but interpreted by readers |
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| when words can be understood within the context of society, the words point to a specific meaning within the text |
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| a branch of philosophy that attempts to understand the fundamental nature of all reality |
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| founder of deconstruction |
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| coined by derrida. means both to defer and to differ. words can have multiple meanngs, but the meaning can never be known exactly because words are defined by other words |
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| absence of a definite meaning |
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| women writers imitated the dominant tradition |
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| women advocated minority rights and protested |
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| when dependency on opposition is being replaced by a rediscovery of women's texts and women |
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| most extreme; if the text mirrors bodes, this can reduce women merely to bodies |
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| women speak men's language as a foreign tongue. if women continue to speak as men do, whatever they say will be alienated |
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| identifies gender differences as the basis of the psyche |
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| most important; places feminist concerns in social contexts, acknowledging class, racial, national, and historical differences and determinants among women. |
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| redefined academic discussions to include gender. male objectivity is challenged by feminine subjectivity |
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| focuses on women's economic well-being and independence as a primary concern and on the intersection between women's experiences as workers and their position in the family. women must concern themselves financially to men |
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| maintains that gender is not biological but is based on the psycho-sexual development of the individual. gender inequality comes from early childhood experiences, which lead men to believe themselves to be masculine, and women to believe themselves feminine |
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| symbol of difference between the sexes and signifier of the status of males |
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| idea that women can have masculine qualities, and men can have feminine qualities |
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| this philosophy uses women emotion and feelings to make the work stronger. |
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| the condition of using the male as the norm for all human beings |
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| "hatred of woman" - the belief that women are naturally created inferior to men |
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| the structuring of family based on the man, as father figure, having primary authority over the rest of the family members. |
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| the body of doctrine, myth, belief etc. that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group |
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| marked by contact with disparate cultures, and acquiring some but not all the traits or values common to any one of them |
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| studying writings by women and examining the female literary tradition to find out how women writers across the ages have perceived themselves and imagined reality |
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| anglo-american feminist criticism |
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| critics who are skeptical of modern critical theory and maintain a traditional interest in fundamental critical concepts such as theme, motif, and characterization |
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| the social organization in which the mothers or women are the center of the family and of society |
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| french feminist criticism |
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| focusing not on binary point of view, but on a logocentrism view |
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| english novelist and feminist writer |
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| feminine aspect - the inner feminine part of the male personality of a man's image of a woman |
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| male aspect - an inner masculine part of the female personality or a woman's image of a man |
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| typical recurring image, character, narrative design, theme, or other literary phenomenon that has been in lit from the beginning and regularly reappears |
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| a set of primal memories common to the human race, existing below each person's conscious mind |
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| the image we present to the world |
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| darker, sometimes hidden elements of a person's psyche |
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| swiss psychologist who connected archetypal images to the unconscious of the human mind |
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| a Canadian writer who examined archetypal criticism and explained his findings solely in literary terms |
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| american mythologist, writer and lecturer who, in the 1940s, first informed the public of methods of discovering the myths and archetypes included in the structure of literary works |
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| explains distinction between introversions and extroversion. Intro - people who prefer thought. Extro - people who prefer external people and activities |
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| one must get in touch with the shadow and anima/animus before on can truly get in touch with the self |
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| an archetypal narrative, classified as comical, romantic, tragic, or ironic |
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| the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops |
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| a theory or doctrine that acts of the will, occurrence in nature, or social or psychological phenomena are casually determined by preceding events or natural laws |
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| a mutual or reciprocal relation between things |
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| a fixed point in time from which a series of years is reckoned |
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| designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
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| a text is not accepted passively by the audience, but is interpreted based on individual cultural background and life experiences |
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| texts are always intimately connected to their historical or social context |
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| idea that a humans beliefs and activities should be understood in terms of his or her own culture |
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| the total set of relations that unite, at a given period, the reasoning practices that give rise to epistemological figures sciences and possibly formalized systems |
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| links literary works with many other cultural phenomena of a period, including the discourse of pop culture and of areas like economics, law, medicine, politics, etc. |
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| language practice: that is, language as it is used by different groups for purposes to do with power relationships between people |
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| the claim that historical analysis of a text in inevitably subjective |
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| when a person shifts his/her impulses from an unacceptable target to more acceptable or less threatening target |
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| the part of the mind containing psychic material that is only rarely accessible to awareness but that has a pronounced influence on behavior |
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| to divert the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use |
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| the phenomenon whereby the patient under analysis redirects the emotions recalled in analysis towards the psychoanalyst |
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| when aspects of ourselves are not recognized as a part of ourselves but are perceived in or attributed to another |
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| substituting qualities or ideas from one person to another |
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| three part essence of a human being that includes mental and subconscious functions |
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| the demanding section of the psyche controlled only by desire. satisfying wants |
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| the psychic section of morals and conscience that recognizes other humans and allows altruism and reasoning |
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| the balance between id and superego |
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| the concept that in a dream, one mental image may have multiple meanings |
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| the attempt to deny ideas consideration, to forget or bury the memories of evens |
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| the upper class in capitalistic system which is supported by the proletariat class |
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| the lower or working class in a capitalistic system which supports the bourgeoise class |
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| works more than necessary to produce goods society consumes |
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| works less than necessary to produce goods society consumes |
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| term for the separation between the worker and others due to the capitalistic exploitation of labor |
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| the refuse of all classes composed of thieves, miles, tricksters and criminals |
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| one's knowledge of one's rank in society |
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