Literary Criticism
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| Marxist - being aware of the separation between economic classes | ||
| Feminism - blurring of gender roles | ||
| Archetypal - "inward face" | ||
| Archetypal - "inward face" | ||
| Deconstruction - moment of uncertainty | ||
| Archetypal - universal theme, motif, etc. | ||
| focuses on archetypes | ||
| focuses on the author's history/biography | ||
| Marxist - french word meaning the upper middle class | ||
| Archetypal - developed archetypal criticism | ||
| Marxist? - knowing what class you are in | ||
| Archetypal - universal psyche consisting of a set of primal memories | ||
| New Historicism - what happens in a story can only be understood in the context of the history during which it was writen | ||
| Deconstruction - the meaning of the text can not be found in the text itself. Underlying meanings unintended by the author. | ||
| Deconstruction - words | ||
| New Historicism - communication through speech | ||
| Psychoanalytic - defense mechanism; shifting anger or other emotion from a target to another target | ||
| Feminism - theory that there is a specific feminine style of writing | ||
| Psychoanalytic - (conscious) obtain desires though moral means | ||
| Feminism - 2nd wave Feminist; large contributor to gynocrticism, thought that languages were patriarchal | ||
| New Historicism - popular truths of the time | ||
| Deconstruction - the absence of definite meaning | ||
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| criticism based on feminist theory, or by the politics of feminism more broadly | ||
| Feminism - women suffrage; legal equality | ||
| Marxism - published The Condition of the Working Class, met Karl Marx and they together wrote the Communist Manifesto. Engels was a supporter of socialism and the victory of the proletariate. | ||
| Feminism - look at literature based on experiences of women | ||
| Psychoanalytic - (pleasure) eating, drinking, self-gratification, etc. | ||
| New Historicism- a set of ideas that constitutes one's goals, expectations, and actions | ||
| Deconstruction - one of the main founders of deconstruction; said that in deconstruction, anything goes | ||
| Archetypal - studied myth and archetypes; said that humans recognize myths and archetypes | ||
| Marxism - argued that capitalism would inevitably produce internal tensions which would lead to its destruction; was a major proponent of communism | ||
| Deconstruction - a culture that revolves around central meaning | ||
| Marxism - (thieves, robbers, etc.) lowest of the low; "feed" on the misfortunes of the hardworking working class | ||
| criticism that focuses on finding marks indicating a book's support of communism; based on the theories of Karl Marx | ||
| Feminism - was a first wave feminist; part of the modern feminist movement; wrote Vindication of the Rights of Women; English founder of feminism | ||
| Feminism - social system dominated by the mother's/woman's rule | ||
| Deconstruction/Historicism - studied family ancestries; examined the distribution of power and power struggles; one of the main founders of deconstruction | ||
| Archetypal? - a popular belief or story that has come to represent a person, occurrence or theme in a culture | ||
| Feminism - social system dominated by the father's/man's rule | ||
| Archetypal - "outward face" | ||
| Marxism - lower/working class | ||
| criticism that focuses on understanding the psychology of the characters; based largely on the theories of Sigmund Freud. | ||
| criticism that analyzes the responses of readers to a certain piece of literature | ||
| Psychoanalytical - to hide uncomfortable thoughts | ||
| Biographical - wrote the first dictionary; was the first to analyze a piece of literature by looking at the author's background/history | ||
| Feminism - social equality for women (equality in the workplace) | ||
| New Historicism - relating your own ideological positions to a work | ||
| Archetypal - one of the four archetypes; the instinctual, animalistic, darker and sometimes hidden part of an individual | ||
| Psychoanalytic - developed the theory of the id, ego, and superego; hypothesized that disorders arise from repression; focused on hysterics, dreams; first to initiate the patient-therapist relationship (talking cure) | ||
| New Historicism - one of the founders of New historicism | ||
| ? - someone please define | ||
| Psychoanalytic - acting out unwanted impulses in a less harmful way (kicking a bucket instead of kicking a person) | ||
| Psychoanalytic - (society) sets limitations for the Ego and Id | ||
| Feminism - American founder of Feminism | ||
| New Historicism - by focusing on small details, one can reveal the inherent contradictory forces in culture | ||
| Feminism - wave of feminism that went beyond just women, aimed for equality for different social, economic and ethnic groups | ||
| Deconstruction - mark of the absence of a presence | ||
| Psychoanalytic - the underlying emotions and feelings of an individual |