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Primary Text
Definition
The text under scrutiny
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Secondary Text
Definition
The text used to analyze the primary text and put it in a context
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Criticism
Definition
Is a conversation
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Form
Definition
Is historical
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Intertexuality
Definition
When texts echo other texts; the examiniation of how literary texts build on other texts.
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Textual Studies
Definition
When one examines the material ways literature appears in time.A field of critiscm that coners production (how it was shown to the public), editing, trasmition (how it moves through the world), and preservation (how copies of the text survive) of texts. One area of the study of material culture
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Critic
Definition
A reader who proves they are intelligent about the literature.
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Pragmatism
Definition
The doctrien that an idea can be understood in terms of practical consquences hence, the assessment of the truth or validity of a concept or hypothesis according to the rightness or usefulness of its practical consequences.
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Close Reading
Definition
Acute observation of the particularities of the text
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Formalism
Definition
A literary work has its own rules taht binds it to itself
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Metaphor
Definition
A comparison where one this IS another
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Similie
Definition
A comparison with LIKE or AS
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Intentional Fallacy
Definition
In literary criticism, the fallacy that the meaning or value of a work may be judged or defined in terms of the writers intention
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Fallacy
Definition
An unreliable or false statement.
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Text
Definition
Anything printed or written. The thing under scrutiny. Literary works are primary
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Internal aspects
Definition
Formal Properties
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Context
Definition
Refers to what surrounds the literary work. The issues external to the work: historical context or critical context
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Form
Definition
Shape of something. Shape or arrangement of parts. Particular mode in which a thing exists or manifests istelf
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Ekphrasis
Definition
When writing talks about a visual objects
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Ontology
Definition
The science or study of being; that branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature or essence of being or existence
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Epistemology
Definition
The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge
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Solipsism
Definition
The view or theory that self is the only object or real knowledge or the only thing really existent
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Intent
Definition
What the author says they meant.
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Influence
Definition
How the text reflects or departs from it's time.
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Types of Intent
Definition
Conscious
Unconscious
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Types of Influence
Definition
Direct: the author is shown to have direct contact with the outside force/subject
Indirect: An author is touched second hand somehow
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Affinity/Zeitgeist
Definition
The arguement that there was somethign "general" that influenced an author, such as trends in a culture.
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"Ad hoc, ergo propter hoc" Fallacy
Definition
The fallacy that because something happened after an event, it was somehow influenced by it.
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Heuristic
Definition
Serving to find out of discover. A method of teaching in which stuents are placed as discoverers. They are made to find out things rather than being told them.
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Rhetorical Question
Definition
A question posed without the expectation of a reply. A question posed in order to affirm a position
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Alterity
Definition
The state of being other or different; diversity; "otherness"
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Essentialism
Definition
The attribution of an essential set of characteristics to a culture or a set of people
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Post
Definition
Refers to the historical effects of colonialism
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Post Colonial Criticism
Definition
Attends to the analysis of/engages issues associated with the rise, fall, and crawl of colonialism.
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Poesis
Definition
Greek word meaning make/creation
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Enjambment
Definition
When a thought/clause carries from one line to another
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Couplet
Definition
2 lines
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Tercet
Definition
3 Lines
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Quatrain
Definition
4 Lines
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Sestet
Definition
6 Lines
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Septet
Definition
7 Lines
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Octet/Octave
Definition
8 Lines
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Prosidy
Definition
The structures of the rhythms of speech in writing
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Meter
Definition
The patterns of poetic rhythm
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Types of Meter
Definition
Syllabic
Accentual
Accentual-Syllabic
Quantitative
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Accentual-Syllabic Meter
Definition
A pattern that examines the number of syllables and their stresses/accents
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Foot
Definition
Basic unit of poetic rhythm
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Stanza
Definition
Basic verse structure
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Iamb
Definition
Unstressed, Stressed
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Trochee
Definition
Stressed, Unstressed
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Spondee
Definition
Stressed, Stressed
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Anapest
Definition
Unstressed, Unstressed, Stressed
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Dactyl
Definition
Stressed, Unstressed, Unstressed
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Scansion
Definition
The marking of stressed and unstressed syllables and patterns of repitition
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Dimeter
Definition
2 feet per line
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Trimeter
Definition
3 feet per line
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Tetrameter/Quadrameter
Definition
4 feet per line
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Pentameter
Definition
5 feet per line
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Hexameter
Definition
6 feet per line
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Heptameter
Definition
7 feet per line
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Octameter
Definition
8 feet per line
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Masculine Rhyme
Definition
A rhyme scheme using the last syllables of the word
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Feminine Rhyme
Definition
A rhyme scheme using 2 or more syallbles of a word, the last one being usually unstressed
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Assonance
Definition
Repitition of vowel sounds
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Consonance
Definition
Repitition of conssonant sounds
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Alliteration
Definition
Repitition of beginning syllables
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Spenserian Sonnet
Definition
Rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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Terza Rima
Definition
Rhyme Scheme of ABA BCB C
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Paratactical
Definition
A list of things without conjuctions
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Pathetic Fallacy
Definition
The attribution of human emotions to animals or inanimate things, especially in art and literature
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Liminally
Definition
Being between two things
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Apstrophe
Definition
An adress to a dead or absent person, an animal, a thing, or an abstract idea or quality as if it were alive, present, and capable of understanding
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Caesura
Definition
A pause or breathing place about thte middle of a metrical line, generally indicated by a pause in the sense
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Internal Rhyme
Definition
Rhymes embedded within the lines
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Perfect/Full/True Rhyme
Definition
Correspondence or repetition of vowel sounds and followin consonants before the vowel.
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Idiom
Definition
Form of expression, grammatical construction, phrase, etc., peculiar to a language; a peculiarity of phraseology approved by the usage of a language and often having a signification other than its grammatical or logical one
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Aphorism
Definition
Any principle or precept expressed in few words; a short, pithy sentence containing a truth of general import; a maxim
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Synecdoche
Definition
Part is substituted for the whole; or an individual genus, or class characteristic is substituted for its species
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Metonymy
Definition
One word is substituted for another on the basis of some material, causal, or conceptual relationship
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Variorum
Definition
An edition, especially of the complete works of a classical author, containing the notes of various commentators or editors. Also used to doenote an edition, usually of an author's complete works containing variant readers from manuscripts or earlier editions
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Ars poetica
Definition
"the nature of poetry". A single poem speaking to poetry
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Juvenilia
Definition
Literary or artistic works produced in the author's youth
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"Bliss"
Definition
Mansfield
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"In a Station of the Metro"
Definition
Ezra Pound
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Heart of Darkness
Definition
Joseph Conrad
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Watt
Definition
"Impressionism and Sybolism in Heart of Darkness"
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Joseph Conrad
Definition
"Conrad in the Congo"
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"The Congo Report"
Definition
Roger Casement
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"Conrad, Casement, and the Congo Atrocities"
Definition
Alan Simmons
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Chinua Achebe
Definition
"An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness"
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"Heart of Darkness and Racism"
Definition
Hunt Hawkins
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Bratlinger
Definition
"Imperialism, Impressionis, and the Politics of Style"
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"The Wood Spurge"
Definition
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"The Darkling Thrush"
Definition
Thomas Hardy
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H.D.
Definition
"oread"
Term
"Marianne Moore's Revision of 'Poetry'"
"Poetry: A Variorum Edition"
Definition
Honingsblum
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"Complete with Omissions
Definition
Andrew Kappel
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"The Artists as Armored Animal"
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Quinn
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Discourse
Definition
the totality of all possibly statements. Governs what you do and don't say. Lexicon of speech. Foucalt says that discourse gets controlled/affected by powers once in a culture.
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roman a clef
Definition
novel with a key
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Eugenics
Definition
The "science" pertaining to the production of fine offspring, especially in the human race
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Polygenism
Definition
The idea that human races originated from different lineages. Polygeneticists mgiht argue for race as species.
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Monogenism
Definition
The idea that human races originated from the same lineage.
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allusion
Definition
a covert, implied, indirect or passing reference.
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Gothic tales of horror
Definition
- the past feautres prominently
- vaguely supernatural elements
- architecture figures prominently
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genre
Definition
a kind or a type
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Genre in Fiction (5)
Definition
- Detective Story/mystery
- The Western
- The Romance
- Horror
- Sci-fi
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The Western
Definition
Good and evil are embodied
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The Romance
Definition
There is a quest
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Horror
Definition
The unknown can be malovelent in form
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Sci-fi
Definition
Nature and culture become cunfused. Asks what does it mean to be human?
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Structuralism
Definition
Argues for the primacy of an internal structure in every facet of life
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Narratologist
Definition
A person interested in structure or narrative (kind of structuralism)
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Purloined
Definition
That which has been pilfered or stolen with a playful elegance or classed quality. 16th Century word.
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"in medias res"
Definition
The term for a literary device in which a story starts "in the middle of things"
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Ratiocination
Definition
The action or process of reasoning, especially deductively or by using syllogisms.
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Psychology
Definition
The science of how mind or psyche works.
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Psychoanalysis
Definition
A branch of psychology founded by Sigmund Freud which focuses on a spectrum of health/mental health, concerned with the psychopathology of everyday life.
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Conceit
Definition
An extended metaphor
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cathexis
Definition
a distribution of psychic energy. a direction of energy that creates a connection between two objects.
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Topographical
Definition
spatial terms
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Id
Definition
Aspect of mind in which there is only want and satisfaction of want. Seat of primal desire.
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Super-Ego
Definition
Rules and regulations dominate. Civilization in its pure form. The conscience.
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Ego (the I)
Definition
Mediates between the Id and Super-Ego. Tries to reconcile the needs of teh two.
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"The Talking Cure"
Definition
A way to access the unconcious mind - were a patient says every little thing that comes into their mind and an analysist analyizes it.
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Concious Behavior
Definition
What you know you know
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Unconcious Behavior
Definition
What is beneath concious behavior. What one doesn't have access to conciously, is revealed in dreams, Freudian slips, etc.
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Oral Stage
Definition
First step of infantile sexual development. Mouth focused. Occurs within first 5 years of life.
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Anal Stage
Definition
Second step of infantile sexual development. Focused on control of bodily functions. Occurs within first 5 years of life.
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Phallic Stage
Definition
Third step of infantile sexual development. Where the infant understands the difference between male and female. Source of Oedipal and Electra complexes. Occurs within first 5 years of life.
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Latency Period
Definition
Phase in infantile sexual development where no change occurs. Between the Phallic and Genital Phase.
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Genital Phase
Definition
Occurs during puberty.
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A Fetish
Definition
When a subject focuses on something in order to forget the castration of the mother. A way to calm castration anxiety.
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Displacement
Definition
When an idea or objects intensity can be detached from one object and redirected to some other object. Detaching and reattaching an associative chain.
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Condensation
Definition
When a single figure or idea represents several associative chains
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Oedipal Triangle
Definition
Relationship between father, boy, and mother - about the usurping of the father by the child
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Primal Scene
Definition
The momen in which the child sees their parents having sex
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Repetition Compulsion
Definition
The repetition of certain things over and over again without intent.
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Repitition Automatism
Definition
Lacan focuses on the automatic response. This process originates in the unconcious. When a subject places themselves in a dangerous position they have been in before, not remembering what the original scene was. For Lacan, the search for an object that has been lost. Tied to the death instinct.
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Eros
Definition
Drive to life
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Thanatos
Definition
Drive to death. About conserving energy to the point of being inanimate.
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Desire
Definition
Is what keeping the signifying chain moving. The point at which an infant keeps suckling after hunger has been satisfied. An excess of need. Never what you have in fornt of you; desire is always somewhere else
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Sign
Definition
A word
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Semiotics
Definition
The science and study of signs
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Mirror Stage
Definition
When, at around 6 months of age, a baby shifts from being pure impulse when they see themselves in a mirror and identify themselves as a uniified entity. When it sees itself being seen it becomes an ego.
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3 Orders of Reality
Definition
Stages/Zones into which the self enters. Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic.
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Real
Definition
The world that exists outside or before language
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The Imaginary
Definition
A realm in which there is no clear deliniation between subject and object (mirror stage exposed as fantasy)
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Symbolic
Definition
Language. Where it occurs, the space in which the subject is formed. No subject outside of language. A place of laws and rules.
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Priveleged signifier
Definition
The phallus. what creates meaning and the source of power. What brings together signifier and signified.
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Phallocentrisim
Definition
(phallus-centered-ness) Charge that a theory or way of thinking takes the idea of the phallus as a central organizing motif
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Subject
Definition
An entity subjected to laws of symbolic order. Passed through imaginary. A reflection of a developmental level/stage.
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The Philosophical/Grammatical Subject
Definition
A "being" or "I" of "self".
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Reflection of Power Subject
Definition
Something subjected to the laws of another.
Term
1st Glance
Definition
Blind
Term
2nd Glance
Definition
Sees that the first sees nothing and deludes itself into thinking it can not be seen.
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3rd Glance
Definition
Sees what is not being seen and takes it.
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Intersubjective Relationship
Definition
The connection between two or more people.
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The Three "Others"
Definition
other, the little other, the big Other
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other
Definition
The egoes projection of itself while still in the imaginary
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the Little other
Definition
Another person concieved in a communal relationship to itself.
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the big Other
Definition
Symbolic other. That to which the subject is subject. that which melds together the signifier and the signified.
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Logocentrism
Definition
Charge that a theory/way of thinking privileges the Word ("logos") over speech. Derrida.
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Phonocentrisim
Definition
The privileging of speech over writing. Lacan.
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Arche-Writing
Definition
A form of langauge unhindered by the difference between speaking and writing.
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Neologism
Definition
New word. A word or phrase which is new to the language, one which is newly coined.
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Parergon
Definition
Something subordinate or accesory to the main subject. Hence, more generally: ornamental addition, embellishment. For Derrida, it inscribes something which comes as an extra, exterior to the proper field. For Kant, it's grace or mystery - the extra.
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Hermeneutics
Definition
The art or science of interpretation, especially of scripture. Commonly distinguished for exegesis or prachical exposition
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Signature
Definition
A stand in for the writer who was once there but is no longer there. Signifies a future non-presence.
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Deconstruction
Definition
School of European/American criticism founded by Derrida. Takes the text as a sight of endless play and signification. Text doesn't have a fixed or universal meaning.
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Dissemination
Definition
meaning is something that gets spread around. Enacts the play of meaning.
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"mise en Abyme"
Definition
scene of repitition
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"Marianne Moore and Eugenics"
Definition
David Kadlec
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Edgar Allen Poe
Definition
"The Purloined Letter"
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Definition
"A Scandal in Bohemia"
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"Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'"
Definition
Jacques Lacan
Term
"Lacan's Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter': Overview"
Definition
John P. Muller and William J. Richardson
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Jacques Derrida
Definition
"The Purveyor of Truth"
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Marie Bonaparte
Definition
"Selections from The Life and Work of Edgar Allan Poe"
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"It reconnoitered like a battle-ship. Disbelief and conscious fastidiousness were ingredients in its disinclination to move."
Definition
Critics and Connoisseurs, Marianne Moore
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"but in plain American which cats and dogs can read! The letter a in psalm and calm when pronounced with the sound of a in candle is very noticeable"
Definition
England, Marianne Moore
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"One perceives no flaws in this emblematic group of nine, with leaf window unquilted by curculio"
Definition
Nine Nectarines, Marianne Moore
Term
"truth must be dark. Principally throat, sophistication is as it always has been - at the antipodes from the initail great truths"
Definition
In the Days of Prismatic Color, Marianne Moore
Term
"The Bells"
Definition
Edgar Allen Poe
Term
"The Murder in the Rue Morgue"
Definition
Edgar Allen Poe
Term
"Marie Roget"
Definition
Edgar Allen Poe
Term
Russian Formalist Propp
Definition
"The Morphology of the Folk Tale"
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Anthropologist Structuralist - "the raw" and "the cooked"
Definition
Claude Levi-Strauss
Term
"Purity and Danger"
Definition
Mary Douglas
Term
"The Mirror Stage"
Definition
Jacques Lacan
Term
Sigmund Freud
Definition
"The Uncanny (Unhemliech)"
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Jacques Derrida, 1966 Johns Hopkins
Definition
"Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
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Jacques Derrida, 1976
Definition
"On Grammatology"
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"The Sandman"
Definition
Eta Hoffman
Term
"Blindness and Insight: Allegories of Reading"
Definition
Paul de Man
Term
"A Map of Misreading"
Definition
Harold Bloom
Term
"Beyond Formalims"
Definition
Geoffrey Hoffman
Term
"Margins of Philosophy"
Definition
Jacques Derrida
Term
"Signature Event Context"
Definition
Jacques Derrida
Term
scription-fiction
Definition
machinery of the work
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scriptor-fictor
Definition
the narrator of a work
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Fetish Object
Definition
An object endowed with sexual potency
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Pre-Concious
Definition
The space in which a subject can have access to certain chains of associations under certain circumstances
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