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Literary and Cultural Studies (Subject) / Glossary (Lesson)
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- Artistic merit judgement of perceived quality or value of works of art
- textual contextual paratextual signal of fictionality literariness, allusions, metafiction etc. publisher, reception, etc title, subtitle, legal disclaimers
- mnemonic memory aid
- orature oral + literature term by Pio Zirimu
- memorial poets/formulaic poets recitation/improvisation from set pieces
- 1.primary orality 2.residual orality 3.secondary orality cultures untouched by writing or print culture important traces of orality in literate cultures cultures with oral media (telephone, radio)
- 1. sensus litteralis 2. sensus moralis 3. sensus allegoricus 4. sensus anagogicus literal meaning of biblical narrative moral instruction history of salvation; New Testament prefigured in Old Testament anagogical meaning: what does the future hold?
- exegesis interpreting the bible
- canon evaluative selection of 'important' or 'aesthetically superior' authors genres and text works
- 1. conservative position 2. liberal position 3. radical position calims to be based on inherent value and trans-historical standards opening up the canon, including works by marginalised groups (women, minorities) against any form of canon
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- DWEMs and WASPs Canon consists of Dead White European Males OR White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
- organic unity harmony between the textual details and the larger whole
- 1. intentional fallacy 2. affective fallacy confusing the author's intended meaning with the actual meaning of a text mistaking a text for its emotional or psychological affects
- criticism overall term for studies concernced with defining, classifying, analyzing, interpreting and evaluating literature
- approach most general way of doing things
- method explicit and systematic procedure for reading texts
- poststructuralism What does a text not say or exclude?
- new historicism What led the author to write the text?
- reception aesthetics What are the potential meanings of a text?
- empirical reception studies How do readers react to a text?
- history reception how have past readers reacted?
- intermediality connection to other medium (e.g. film)
- semiotics study of signs as a part of social life
- 1. indexical sign 2. iconic sign 3. symbolic sign signifier and signified are directly related signifier is resembling or imitating the sign purely arbitrary or conventional
- 1. denotation 2. connotation literal meaning or reference of a sign socio-cultural and 'personal' association, related to the interpreter's class, age, gender etc.
- mythology cultural meaning of signs - their ideological import
- alterity cultural differences
- 1. high culture 2. folk culture 3. popular culture cultural elite; vital cultural standards and values organic, vital, traditional culture, viewed positively product of urban, industrial mass societies
- 1. Platonism 2. Neo-Platonism "Poets are liars" - copy of a copy "Poets speak the truth" - contemplation of beauty, unification with the One
- mimicry the colonized imitate the coloniser
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- diaspora group of people who have been dispersed or have migrated from their homeland
- ventriloquism speaking for someone (act of silencing the other)
- third space centre and margin/coloniser and colonized begin to merge and become indistinguishable
- taxonomy classification
- 1. phonological level 2. morphological level 3. syntactical level 4. semantic level sound, meter, rhythms, rhyme word formation, repetition parallel structuring, inversion tropes, eg. metaphors
- 1. narrative poetry 2. lyric poetry 3. dramatic poetry poetry that tells a story and is primarily characterizedby linear , chronological description any fairly short poem in the voice of a single speaker, usually expressing personal concerns poetry written in one or more characters assumed by the poet
- rhythm meter + linguistic and stylistic realization of verse
- free verse a poetic language liberated from the restrictions of rhyme, meter and traditional stanza
- 1. end-rhyme 2. internal rhyme 3. eye rhyme 4. masculine rhyme 5. feminine rhyme 6. triple rhyme 7. identical rhyme 8. half rhyme grave - wave and a clatter and a chatter from within far - war, man - ocean one syllable, final syllable stressed two or more syllables, final syllable unstressed three syllables same word similiar sound, but no rhyme
- 1. couplet 2. cross rhyme 3. embracing rhyme 4. chain rhyme 5. tail rhyme aa bb cc abab abba aba bcb aab ccb
- narratology study of the story itself
- authorial narrative first-person narrative figural narrative dominance of external perspective dominance of identity dominance of reflector mode
- Hybridity creation of transcultural 'material'
- exoticisation portraying someone or something unfamiliar as exotic or unusual (romanticize)
- Anglo-Indian literature vs. Indo-Anglian literature english writers writing about/from India Indian writers writing in english
- 1. analepsis 2. prolepsis flashback flashforward
- anagnorisis recognition; change from ignorance to knowledge, causing pity or fear
- monologue characters express feelings/thoughts in an unmediated way (not reliable)
- close reading thorough interpretation of a text
- realism belief that language is a transparent medium and that it is possible to represent the world objectively