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| Greenblatt, Foucoult. Response to formalism- Literature references and is a reference to history. |
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| analysis of literature and other art forms in their political, social, or economic contexts. |
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| Williams. Literature is an artifact of economic forces and modes of production. literary texts serve a "subversive" or otherwise politically charged function |
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| a movement within literary criticism and the humanities more generally that focuses on and critiques disability, including otherness. |
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| forms of literary criticism focused on textual representations of and readings responsive to issues of homo and hetero sexuality. Sexuality troubles gender as a category. |
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| a type of literary criticism in which literary works are viewed as the product of work and whose practitioners emphasize the role of class and ideology in reflecting/propagating/challenging the prevailing social order. |
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| something outside of its appropriate time period. |
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| the technique of presenting something outside of its appropriate time period. |
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| reader created by the text |
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| Form of formalism. Close readings. cite the nature of the object, not the subject. |
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| explores and interrogates the situation of colonized peoples both during and after colonization. |
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| "Deconstruction." Binary oppositions do not truly oppose each other, because one always has an advantage. Derrida- "there is nothing outside the text." |
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| writers write to express repressed desires. heavy emphasis on symbols. |
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| assumes sexual identities are flexible. Gender is a social artifact. sexuality is performative, not normative as a process involving signifying acts rather than personal identity. |
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| reader response criticism |
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| a work can have as many readings as we have responses for it. |
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| human nature and literature may be understood as a system of arbitrary signs. semiotics. |
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