Session 3 Flashcards
(15 cards)
What is the Author-Centered Approach?
Biographical approach analyzes the author’s life. Psychoanalytical approach views literary works as reflections of the unconscious mind, similar to dreams, revealing repressed desires, anxieties, and traumas.
What is the Reader-Centered Approach?
Reader Response Criticism critiques the text based on our experiences. Cognitive Poetics examines how we imagine while reading. Empirical Reception Studies focus on how we interpret and receive literature. History of Reception and Effect of Works looks at what people thought of the book when it first came out and what they think now.
What are Text-Centered Approaches?
New Criticism/Close Reading/Narratology involves internal structure and meaning, detailed textual analysis, and how stories affect readers. Formalism/Structuralism focuses on word choice and format. Poststructuralism/Deconstruction reveals how meanings are unstable and open to reinterpretation due to the ambiguous nature of language.
What are Context-Centered Approaches?
Includes Feminist literary criticism, Marxist literary criticism, Post-colonial theory, and Cultural Studies. It examines how historical people thought about, interacted with, and classified the world around them, as opposed to the history of particular events or economic trends. History of Ideas: It focuses on the development of intellectual concepts and theories.
What are approaches centering on the literary context?
Includes studies on literary sources and influences, literary sociology, studies on intertextuality & intermediality, and the history of the book.
What is Metalepsis?
A narrative technique that involves a shift between different levels of narrative. Ex: breaking the fourth wall: Bridgerton Narrator and Deadpool adressing audience
What is Story in narrative terms?
WHAT is narrated: who does what, in which order, where, and why? Treats events as if they were real, focusing on actions, characters, temporal and location settings.
What is Discourse in narrative terms?
HOW the story is narrated: analyze each textual level in isolation, then see how they work together to convey a certain meaning. Ex: 40 LOVE Poem and how it is structured conveys meaning/distancing/a tennis game.
What is Narrativity?
The sequence of events that provides structure and meaning to experience. In a story, we want: Conflict, Changes, Consequences. The way the story is told.
What does Ubiquity mean in narrative?
Constantly being present. The state of being everywhere, or omnipresent. Can refer to a theme, symbol, or presence that is seen everywhere.
What is Chronology?
The sequence of events.
What is Causality?
The connectedness of events; one thing leads to another.
What is Mediation in narrative?
No direct access to the story, but through a mediating agent (narrator). The narrator is NOT the author; it is a fictional construct that shapes our experience.
What is the role of the Narrator?
Guides how the story is told and how characters are presented. The narrator is NOT the author.
What is Innerfictional Addressee?
Someone the story is being told to, NOT the reader, but an ambiguous entity.
