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Literary Theory Review
Literary Theory Review
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Definitions and questions associated with the criticisms discussed in class this unit.
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Narrative styles, character types, symbols and images that are repeated time and time again.
Formalist
Socialist
Archetypal
Psychological
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Acknowledges that people view works differently and that interpretations change over time.
Archetypal
Moral
Reader Response
Formalist
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Literary concepts that are assessed using this theory include: simile, diction, tone & allusion
Psychological
Formalist
Reader Response
Philosophical
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Sigmund Freud is directly associated with which theory?
Psychological
Moral
Feminist
Archetypal
5
Regards the text as an independent object, a self-contained universe of discourse.
Socialist
Reader Response
Formalist
Feminist
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What seem to be the author's major concerns? Are the writer's personal experiences refected?
Biographical
Socialist
Reader Response
Psychological
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Because of their limited role in society, they played submissive characters in literature.
Formalist
Feminist
Socialist
Archetypal
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Whether we understand character thoughts/actions to be either socially acceptable or corrupt.
Psychological
Archetypal
Philosophical
Socialist
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Explores complex ways women have been denied social power and the right to free expression.
Biographical
Archetypal
Marxist
Feminist
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The meaning of a text is built by encountering the text. The reader is a producer of meaning.
Biographical
Psychological
Reader Response
Formalist
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What marital expectations are imposed on the characters? What effect do these expectations have
Psychological
Socialist
Feminist
Archetypal
12
The villain, the fool, the saint, the sinner, and the lover are common to every text.
Feminist
Moral
Archetypal
Psychological
13
Socrates and Plato are directly associated with this theory:
Philosophical
Psychological
Archetypal
Socialist
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A disadvantage of this theory is that it is too "judgmental"
Moral
Feminist
Psychological
Reader Response
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According to this work's view of life, what is mankind’s relationship to God? To the universe?
Reader Response
Formalist
Socialist
Moral
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Our background, education and experiences form the basis of our relationship with the text.
Reader Response
Formalist
Feminist
Archetypal
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Carl Jung explored the mythological origins to human and social behaviour.
Archetypal
Psychological
Moral
Socialist
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The role economics plays in texts as well as the writer's representation of class struggles.
Psychological
Socialist
Reader Response
Formalist
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Sees literature as an attempt by the author to reconcile the conflicted parts of their psyche
Archetypal
Psychological
Reader Response
Socialist
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Common Terms include: Proletariat, Bourgeois & the Great American Dream
Socialist
Psychological
Feminist
Formalist
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Texts are a reflection of the author’s life. The author’s life, over intent, is examined.
Feminist
Reader Response
Formalist
Biographical
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Importance of class, economic conditions and power relationships within a text
Archetypal
Psychological
Feminist
Socialist
