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| Study of textual interpretation |
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| beauty & taste, pleasing arrangement |
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| Process of deriving/determining/discovering meaning |
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| Without standards for judgement, anything goes....can lead to Chaos |
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| Words on a page, no meaning, applicable to a time period |
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| reading is a biased exercise, all readers use personal experiences to relate to the text |
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| AKA Formalism - takes the reader and the writer out of the equation...makes it objective |
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A term used by Jacobsen, 2 types:
referential and non referential
"Will you please go shut the door." |
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| Old idea that there is only one master of something (deemed the Auctor)...Writing was about praising the auctor |
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Trivium-Grammar, rhetoric, logic
Quadrivium- Math, geometry, music, astronomy
Quadrivium is the basis for liberal arts education |
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| Formalists charge against Genetic Critics, that the author's intention may or not have been intentional |
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| Name of the game for Genetic Critics, text means what the author intended it to mean |
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| Hirsch's 4 Criteria for Verification (GC) |
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1. Legitimacy-Must conform to norms of language
2. Correspondence-No cherry picking
3 Generic Appropriateness-Poem is a poem
4. ***Coherence: Appeal to authorial intention*** |
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Polemical: Sheer political persuasion
Literary: tends to be more open
"organized violence of everyday speech" |
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| Art for Art's Sake---19th Century France |
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| Written solely for the poem's sake--19th Century France |
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| AKA Formalism, 1930-1960, text is the only thing that matters |
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| Brooks definition of Irony? |
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| Obvious warping of a statement |
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| irony and the interpretive process? |
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| irony demonstrates the importance of context |
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| context (and pressures of)? |
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| Any part gets its meaning from parts and their interaction with eachother and the whole |
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| always extrinsic, pleasing arrangement |
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1. Part
2.Relates to other parts (context) and the whole
3. Whole relates back to the parts |
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| Structure leads to context which leads to meaning |
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| The idea the emotion, ideas, and external thoughts aren't needed in a text |
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| real v. hypothetical readers |
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Real: contemporary & Historical
Hypothetical: mental constructs of the perfect reader |
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| Textual function; structure provides role for reader to fill, a heuristic |
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1. Narrator
2. Characters
3. Plot
4. Fictitious Reader |
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| Iser's Process of Determining meaning? |
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| Meaning is were we assemble all the perspectives from a standpoint, certain standpoints give us different meanings. |
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| Holland's transactive theory of reading? |
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| Reading is a transactive process between the reader and the text |
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| Holland's Process of Determining Meaning? |
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| Reader sends out hypothesis to text, response is either + or -, refines meaning....REPEAT |
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| Topical Theme v. Perennial Theme |
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Topical Theme: Located in Cultural Context (bound by time)
Perennial Theme: Virtues of themes (universal) |
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| Gender plays a role in interpretation. Reading is gendered. Example: "Trifles" |
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