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AP English 12
Lit. Theory Tenants LG Fall 2007
| Critical Approach | Tenant 1 | Tenant 2 | Tenant 3 | Tenant 4 | Tenant 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romanticism | Views literature as "imaginary" | Literature is a refuge for artists driven to the margins of society. | Views symbol as the solution to all conflicts. | Views literature as a "mysteriously organic unity" | When religion fails, literature must convey the timeless truths to the masses. |
| New Criticism (Formalism) | Converts literature into a fetish | Connects ut to the world's body in an "essentially religious bond" | Believes author's intentions are unimportant | Insists upon "rigorous critical analysis" | Ignores reader's subjective interpretation of texts |
| Structuralism | Brackets away from actual content, focuses on structure | Looks at text synchronically | Decenters the human subject | Views parts/pieces of literature as interchangeable | Questions the claim that literature is a unique form of discourse |
| Semiotics | Systemically studies signs by structuralist methods | Distinguishes between paradigmatic and syntagmatic | Distinguishes between conotation and denotation | Searches for/ analyzes polysemic signs | There are three different types of signs: iconic (sign resembled what is stood for), indexical (sign related to what it's a sign of), symbolic (sign arbitrarily connected with what it is a sign of) |
| Post-structuralism | States that meaning is never fully present | Implies binary oppositions are necessary fictions | States that everything is interchangeable (nothing is original) | Searches for the "double-sign" | Searches for impasses of meaning (Aporia) |
| Psychoanalysis (demonstrate the shift from Freudianism to Lacanian interpretation) | Employs the psychological principles of the Oedipal Complex (Freud) | Employs maturational phases (Freud) | Employs dream analysis (Freud) | Employs the "mirror stage" (Lacan) | Employs the idea of "the law" and "the father" (Lacan) |
| Feminist Criticism | Searches for an escriture feminine | Examines representations of women in literature by men and women | Revalue women's experience | Rethink canon, aiming at the rediscovery of texts written by women | Challenges representations of women as 'Other', as 'lack', as part of 'nature' |
| New Historicism/Cultural Materialism | Gives equal weight to literary and non-literary texts | Defamiliarizes canonical text | Employs parallel reading to ensure literary text is not privalleged | Examines issue of state power and how it is maintained | Examines the idea of social structure as put forth by discursive practices |
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