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ENG 214 - Critical Theory Exam 1
ENG 214 - Critical Theory, Brewton-Parker College, Dr. Porter, Spring 2011
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01/19/2011

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New Criticism can be equated with what term?
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American Formalism
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Formalists are primarily concerned with what?
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HOW the text is put together or how it is "formed," some of this deals with aesthetics.
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Psychological Approaches came from who?
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Sigmund Freud
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What is a theory?
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An educated explanation for a phenomenon.
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Literary Theory is important to what disciplines?
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All of them.
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What is Linguistics?
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The study of the purpose and use of language.
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Who was the Father of Linguistics?
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Ferdinand Saussure
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What discipline did we have BEFORE Linguistics?
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Philology
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What is referentiality?
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A reference to something specific. i.e. "cat" would refer to "Bob the Cat," not just any cat.
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Do words have referentiality?
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No, they are just symbols. One word may mean something different to me than it does to another person.
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What is the Medium for Literature?
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Words
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What are the 2 Paths for Language?
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1. Communicative
2. Create Literary Art
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Explain the Communicative Path for Language
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Communication from A to B, to an audience (i.e. textbooks, Conversations)
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Explain the Creating Literary Art Path for Language
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Literature
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What is Aesthetics?
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study of the pleasingness of form (beauty)
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Define standards in art
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We instinctively NEED standards
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Explain Artistic Unity
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every aspect will work together well to achieve what the writer has designed as the purpose of the piece
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The American Formalist (other than "form") has a big admiration for what?
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Artistic Unity
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Formalists acknowledes what about any great literary work?
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They may have many different purposes ...or perhaps a purpose followed by different sub-purposes.
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Aristotle defines Literature as what?
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A "recreated world"; A writer draws his words from his previous experiences in the world; as it is put together in a fictional form, it is NOT a copy of the real world.
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What is the technique used by the American New Formalists?
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Close Reading
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What is Close Reading?
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Literally means reading a text, word-for-word, paying attention to every little detail. "Every little detail needs to be there for a purpose."
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Psychoanalytic Theories
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Focuses on the subconscious motivations
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Michel Foucoult
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well-known for work in psychology, his book was “History of the Systems of Thought”


- Episteme – epistemology, study of knowledge
- Important for New Historicism
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Paradigms
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ways of thinking
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Ferdinand Berdell
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New Historicism, he was a historian.
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Braudell on Capitalism
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sees Capitalists as monopolists and government is in cahoots with the monopolists.
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Roman Jacobson
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Russian Formalist
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Victor Shlovsky
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wrote “Making Strange”…Difference between Literary language and communicative language….his conclusing was that literary language isn’t to be clear.
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Vladamir Propp
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studied Russian folktales. Story vs. plot. Story (what happens) and the Plot is the structure of the events.
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Northrop Frye
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Canadian, Uni. Of Toronto…designed categorization: comedy , romance (Summer), irony/satire, tragedy(Autumn)
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Narratology
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structure of narrative….the formula that we can use to define the structure of narrative.
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Thomas Kuhn
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“The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”
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Edmund Husserel
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the thing in itself
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Stanley Fish
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Speaks of the text as an “event”
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Jacques Derrida
Definition
Post Structuralism (Also called “Deconstruction”)
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