literary criticism

Question 1

stanley fish

Answer 1

reader response

Question 2

cleanth brooks

Answer 2

new criticism

Question 3

Claude Levi Strauss

Answer 3

Anthropological Structuralism

Question 4

Saussure

Answer 4

Structuralism

Question 5

Roland Barthes

Answer 5

Linguistic Structuralism

Question 6

Jakobson

Answer 6

Linguistic Structuralism

Question 7

Lacan

Answer 7

Subjection-realm of symbolic

Question 8

Althusser

Answer 8

Subjection-realm of economy

Question 9

Foucault

Answer 9

Subjection- New Historicism

Question 10

Derrida

Answer 10

Deconstruction

Question 11

Nancy

Answer 11

Participation-Poetics of Finitude

Question 12

heresy of paraphrase

Answer 12

to declare what a poem is trying to say
poems can’t be quantified

Question 13

affective fallacy

Answer 13

to understand the meaning of the text as only what you got from it

Question 14

intentional fallacy

Answer 14

to understand the meaning of the text as what the author meant

Question 15

NC-What is a poems major job

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A creative unity–joining of unexpected things together

Question 16

What’s more important to a new critic-content or form

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form

Question 17

reader response theory

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Meaning is in the activity of reading. Not what the text means, but what it does to us

Question 18

Is there a text in this class?

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No, there is only us and we use up the piece

Question 19

who is the ideal reader in reader response

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1.speaks the language
2.knows the genres and forms
3. can determine what’s idiosyncratic vs what’s intended

Question 20

structuralism theory

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Anything that “is” within a larger system or stucture means nothing in and of itself

Question 21

Linguistics

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Study of meaningful sounds

Question 22

seme

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arbitrary relation of signifier to signified- ideal element of language

Question 23

New criticism theory

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we read to perserve the object as a unified platonic form

Question 24

signifier

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the word itself

Question 25

signified

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cat you picture

Question 26

sign

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signifier/signified

Question 27

anthropological structuralism

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looking at human processes through a structuralist lens

Question 28

linguistic structuralism

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poetry isn't structured like a language but is in fact a permutation of language

Question 29

syntagmatic

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horizontal organization by which seems organize theselves -metanymic -combination

Question 30

paradigmatic

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vertical organization by which semes organize themselves -metaphoric -selection

Question 31

the objective semiotics feature that distinguishes literary uses of language from other uses is

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the dominance of a tendency to "project the axis of equivalence onto the axis of combination" paradigmatic onto syntagmatic

Question 32

syntax

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deployment of words to give off grammatical functions

Question 33

6 factors of speech

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1.addresser 2.addressee 3.code 4.message 5.context 6.contact

Question 34

6 functions of speech

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1.emotive 2.conative 3.metalingual 4.poetic 5.referential 6.phatic

Question 35

poetic function

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when the focus of the communication is on the words themselves not the referent or the rules

Question 36

theories of subjection

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when I read poetry and literature I am entering the totality culture as a subject

Question 37

freud's dreamwork

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repression reworks one's impulses by way of condensation and displacement

Question 38

condensation

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multiple dream thoughts combined

Question 39

displacement

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you have immense feelings about something that emerge through a certain motif

Question 40

symbolic

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entry into the totality of language

Question 41

metaphor-subjection

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signifier stays secure while signified gets squared

Question 42

metanym

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dissolves signifier and signified

Question 43

Lacan's theory of subjection

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the unconscious is structured like a language-

Question 44

where does culture come from according to Althusser

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culture is superstructural-reflected by work

Question 45

What does ISA stand for

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Ideological State Apparatus: Literature operates under this and hails us as subjects

Question 46

Subjection-Althusser

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All literature is written to support the modes of production THUS dont read literature for meaning but rather what it wants to mean but says under ostensible assertions

Question 47

Subjection-Foucoalt

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every new element alters the system and no way to establish metaphysical priority for a given set of terms

Question 48

archaeology

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discovering the configuration that give rise to specific practices

Question 49

epistemes

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set of rules of formation that allow discourses to function 1.what can be known 2.how something is known 3.total sum of what is known

Question 50

discourse

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the system itself that makes possible what you say

Question 51

new historicism

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how a body of work 1.responds to a discourse system 2.enacts discourse system 3.alters episteme configuration -no social world is stable

Question 52

genealogy

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tracing powers-creation of new epistemes

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new historicists see literary works as

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a vessel tossed in a social sea of competing interests antagonistic values and contradictions

Question 54

whats more important to a new historicist-context or text

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context

Question 55

The structurally of structure

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the system is never stable, always something that undoes it

Question 56

Deconstruction

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There is a necessary self displacement to be a self a self canceling for the sake of continuing one's existence

Question 57

phenomonology

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philosophy that tries to describe the richness of experience