Final Exam: Thursday 8:00 a.m.
- New criticism (Formalism) values technique. Stay inside of text. Unity. Structure.
- Deconstruction
- affirms and deviates from NC.
- There is no absolute meaning to a text. No outside a text. Everything is text.
- Counters idea of unity. Well Wrought Urn
- "Everything is partly rhetorical and hence literary" (Frye)
- Moves away from the notion of unified whole
- Feminism
- Reductive- Looking only at how women are treated.
- Expansive- Looks at domination. bell hooks. What kind of literary work is this? Puts into perspective
- Reader Response
- You see yourself
- Different spectacles
- *You cannot make things mean whatever you want them to mean!!!
- Psychoanalysts
- Don't make fun of Freud
- The truth is unseen-look at a glass darkly
- Marxism
- We do not see the world around us-Social truths
- Hidden social hierarchies in texts
- Class struggle
Test Questions
- What is the difference between a complaint and criticism?
- Bloom compares Edith Grossman the________ of translators (Glen Gould)
- What secret enchanted thing does Don Antonio tell DQ about that will tell the truth? (The enchanted head)
- What is the English translation of Don Quixote (Of the Stains) (Stain glass windows) (Deconstruction)
- What happened to DQ in the Cave of Montesinos? (A certain genre of literature)
- What was the name of the night that defeated DQ (Knight of the White Moon)
- Who really was The Knight of the Mirrors, The knight of the Wood, and The Knight of the White Moon? (Bachelor Carrasco)
- Pg. 804 "To believe...is to believe_____" (The impossible)
- Frye wears spectacles...the end result is to see something that you haven't seen. Pg. 346 "The culture of the past...things that have been buried...recognition...not our past lives but..."
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