Session 2 Flashcards
(17 cards)
Literature
Stanley Fish: “The reader generates the meaning themselves, therefore everything could be literature.” There is no true notion of literature, but concepts of literature.
Quantitive Criterion
narrow vs. broad, narrative fiction/poetry/drama vs./and autobiography, essay, aphorism, diary, advertisement, article, sermon, prayer, song lyrics, joke, graffiti, graphic novel, Punch and Judy show, …
Qualitative Criterion
normative vs. descriptive, ‚high‘ literature vs. ‚popular‘ literature (synonyms: schema literature, pattern literature, trivial literature)
Textual
Focus on the language and content, the text itself, close reading, very formal analysis
Contextual
Focus on the society and the world around the text, historical, cultural, etc.
Textual: Fictionality
the content is made up and the language does not refer to things that exist in reality but to abstract referents
Mimesis
imitating the real world
Poiesis
making something up
Literariness/Poeticity
Literature uses a ‘special’ language and textual features, that aren’t found outside of literature the language and textual features want to be acknowledge (poetic function) focus on society
Contextual: Social Practice
literature is connected to institutions, based on societal agreement and historically conditioned
Cognitive View
Literature can be viewed as a form of cognitive improvisation
Phylogenetic
development of humanity
Ontogenetic
development of one person
Literary Criticism
Includes: Analysis and interpretation. Uses specific theories, models, and tools in the literry field
Dynamic Meaning
focus on cognitive reconstruction during reading process; potential story-line, Meaning is not fixed, reading is relational and personal
Static Meaning
focus on actualised events
Intersubjectivity
shared understanding that emerges from interpersonal interactions, interpretations are always biased
