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Crit Lit

Literary terms.

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Literary Canon a body of works generally agreed upon as representative of a tradition and deserving attention for literary value.
Interpretive Community A text does not have meaning outside a set of cultural assumptions regarding both what the characters mean and how they should be interpreted.
Reader Response Criticism the meaning of the text is in the experience of the reader, not authorial intent.
Authorial Intention a position that argues that the creator of a text possesses a privileged understanding of its meaning.
Authorial Reader the reader is positioned as a subject and meant to respond to the text.
Actual Reader the reader is outside the text
Intentional fallacy the common assumption that an author's declared or assumed intention in writing a work is a proper basis for the work's meaning.
Intentional fallacy the common assumption that an author's declared or assumed intention in writing a work is a proper basis for the work's meaning.
Affective Fallacy a tendency to relate the meaning of a text to the reader's interpretation.
Affective Fallacy a tendency to relate the meaning of a text to the reader's interpretation.
Heresy of Paraphrase The idea that a poem is paraphrasable
Heresy of Paraphrase The idea that a poem is paraphrasable
Hyper-Protective Cooperative Principle The assumption that difficulties, apparent nonsense, digressions, and irrelevancies have a relevant function.
Cultural Capital the symbols, ideas, tastes, and preferences that can be strategically used as resources in social action.
Hyper-Protective Cooperative Principle The assumption that difficulties, apparent nonsense, digressions, and irrelevancies have a relevant function.
Cultural Capital the symbols, ideas, tastes, and preferences that can be strategically used as resources in social action.
Literary Competence The basic reading ability needed to relate a text to the greater collectivity of language.
Horizon of Expectations the shared mental set or framework within which those of a particular generation in a culture understand, interpret, and evaluate a text or artwork.
Cultural Capital the symbols, ideas, tastes, and preferences that can be strategically used as resources in social action.
Literary Competence The basic reading ability needed to relate a text to the greater collectivity of language.
Ideology Any wide-ranging system of beliefs, ways of thought, and categories that provide the foundation of programmes of political and social actions.
Horizon of Expectations the shared mental set or framework within which those of a particular generation in a culture understand, interpret, and evaluate a text or artwork.
Horizon of Expectations the shared mental set or framework within which those of a particular generation in a culture understand, interpret, and evaluate a text or artwork.
Hegemony The concealed domination of all the positions of institutional power and influence by members of just one class.
Ideology Any wide-ranging system of beliefs, ways of thought, and categories that provide the foundation of programmes of political and social actions.
Aesthetics Notions of sensual beauty applied to fine arts.
Hegemony The concealed domination of all the positions of institutional power and influence by members of just one class.
Hegemony The concealed domination of all the positions of institutional power and influence by members of just one class.
Aesthetics Notions of sensual beauty applied to fine arts.
Aesthetics Notions of sensual beauty applied to fine arts.
Poetics The general principles of poetry, concerned with features or structure of poetry.
Hermeneutics the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation of literary text.
Sapir Whorf Hypothesis The belief that people who speak different languages perceive and think about the world quite differently.
Trope A figure of speech or mode of rhetoric which changes the meanings of words.
Metaphor A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Metonymy A figure of speech in which a word denoting an attribute comes to be substituted for the thing referred to, as in the crown.
Synecdoche A figure of speech by which a more comprehensive term is used for a less comprehensive term or vice versa. Whole for part or part for whole.
Irony The expression or one's intended meaning through language which, taken literally, appears on the surface to express the opposite.
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