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Literay criticism
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Describes, analyzes, justifies, interprets
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Absolutist critic
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Only one theory or set of principles a critic may use
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Relativistic critic
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Critic who uses varoius, even contradictory theories
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New Criticism:
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Unifying the work; words on the page; conflicting elements
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NC; Intentional fallacy
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Error to approach a work looking for author intent;
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Affective Fallacy
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Error to think you can determine a text because of the emotions we feel; emotions are non-important
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Objective correlative
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Poem should be like an object; has asthetic appearance; absolute truth
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NC; ontological
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Study of being; a poem can be
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NC; Poem as _____
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Artifact
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Reader Response
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Creating the work; text irrelevant without reader; how the text shapes the reader's response; in order to determine how the reader is situated in the text
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Implied reader
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Assume the consiousness of another; intended audience; writing for a certain audience
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Actual reader
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Going to bring our own experience to the text
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Structuralism
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System of language which consists of signs and signals; *language as a closed system; binary oppostions; no outside to a text; what are the patterns?; every word matters
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Binary opposition
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Opposites; the two come together at same time to form the whole; two contrary states
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ST; narratology
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A story's meaning developes from its overall structure rather than from each individual story's isolated theme; emphasize grammatical elements
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