Combined: Structuralism and Semiotics + Literary Theory Intro & Chapter 1

Which 2 schools of thought dominated literary studies in the Universities by the end of the 19th Century

 'Parole' refers to which other aspect of language?

Who was concerned with the universal truths literature expressed

For Kant the purposeful is

Which approach examines language at a given moment in time?

Formalism is concerned with

literary theory in the 17th century was influenced by

A key aim of structuralism is to make explicit how language:

What 2 modes of analysis were born from this period of religious study

In Barthes' definition, a myth is a .......

This new emphasis on subjectivity

Which field of study had a huge impact on literary theory in the early 20th century

Viktor Shklovsky was a

Poets don’t imitate, says Aristotle, things as they are

According to Vicktor Shklovsky the primary task of poetry was...

Structuralism can be considered anti

 'Langue' refers to what aspect of language?

The narrative account of events is the

When did literary theory begin as a scholarly enterprise

Self-Sufficiency is a text

What is a syntagmatic relationship?

Ferdinand de Saussure divided a sign into the following two components:

Claude Levi-Strauss found

Structuralists believe that we don’t speak language; language speaks us. 

Another classical idea of art is that art should

What happened after the fall of Rome

what theory tied the meaning of each part to the whole

Art as an end in itself

 In structuralism, the ways in which we conceptualise the world is dependent on:

A stereotype is an example of a social or cultural myth. True or false?

structuralists believe that the source of meaning in language is...

Structuralist approaches to literature challenged some of the most cherished beliefs of the ordinary reader.

The arbitrariness of the sign means that...

The signifier refers to:

The basic structure of the myth  is..

New Criticism was exposed post WW2 for

From Idealism we get the Symbolist Poets

Defamiliarization 

The subjective feelings of a writer begin to replace moral indoctrination in the 17th Century

In 1957 Roland Barthes' published his most famous book called ...

According to Sontag, the emphasis on “content”-based art analysis stems from

In philosophy, empiricism is a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience

By erotics Sontag means interpretation

New Critics assumed that a text is

New Critics must examine how their unifying theme holds any opposing elements together. 

The Intentional Fallacy is...

A spatial or schematic structure exists

A classical idea of literature is that it should

a good example of a Transcendental Signifier is

who thought literature should civilize rather than be about subjective vision in the 19th Century

A code is like a