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ENGL2120
Critical terms
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
12/08/2009

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New Critic
Definition
ambiguity, paradox, irony, tension, exigesis, heresy of paraphrase
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Structuralist
Definition
symbolic operators, Structuralist narratology, binaries, semiotics, sign, signifier, signified, mythemes, signification
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Bakhtinian
Definition
carnival, dialogism, menippean satire, monologism, heteroglossia, first line novel, second line novel, chronotope, prosaics, unfinalizability, taxonomy of the body, re-accentuation
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Psychoanalytic
Definition
conscious mind, unconscious mind, id, ego, superego, symbolic interpretation, condensation, displacement, considerations of representability, secondary elaboration, object-relation theory, part objects, transitional objects, collective unconscious, archetypes, imaginary, symbolic, real, Oedipus complex, penis envy
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Reader-Response
Definition
informed reader, implied reader, affective stylistics, gaps, horizons of expectations, interpretive communities, transactional analysis
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Deconstructive
Definition
metaphysical, logocentric, intertextuality, noncontradiction, hierarchization, binary oppositions, signification, difference, aporia, undecidability, readerly vs. writerly
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Foucauldian
Definition
discourse, discipline, genealogy, power, human sciences, penitentiary, panopticon
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Marxist
Definition
materialism, capitalism, bourgeoisie, proletariat, dialectical materialism, alienation, commodification, reification, hegemony, interpellation
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Feminist
Definition
man’s sentence, woman’s sentence, androgyny, l’écriture feminine, le parler femme, essentialism, gynocentrics, jouissance, patriarchy, phallogocentricism
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Multicultural
Definition
minor literature, plurality, subaltern, hegemony, hybridity, national allegory, marginalization, diaspora, eurocentrism, imperialism, alterity
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New Historicist
Definition
Episteme, self-positioning, thick description, historicity, textuality of history, Shakespearean negotiations
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