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Literary and Cultural Studies (Subject) / Glossary (Lesson)

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• reality effect idea that a text refers to something real
• master narratives traditional gender/race roles, captivity narrativex, rescue myths (9/11)
• micronarratives personal stories
• herstories history written from feminine perspective
• unqualified assimilation colonized copying the coloniser's culture
• intersectionality theory of how different types of racism interact
• Feminist Critique concerned with literature written by men
• Gynocriticism concerned with the history, style, themes, genres and structures of women's writing
• appropriation repetition with a difference
• Feminine phase 1840-1880; imitatiob of the prevailing mode of the dominant tradition
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• Feminist phase 1880-1920; protest against dominant standards and values
• Female phase 1920-present; self discovery, search for identity
• Gender Studies study of femininity and masculinity
• Queer Theory critique of heteronormativity, homophobia and transphobia
• ecocriticism the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment
• transcendentalism American literary, political and philosophical movement in the 19th century
• pastoral celebration of countryside, escapism
• primary media no technology
• secondary media technology used in production
• tertiary media technology involved in production and reception
• quaternary media digital technology involved
• Push Media undirectional/static; offer 'programms' (TV)
• Pull Media interactive, depend on user contribution (web)
• dominant-hegemonic position acceptance of the preferred reading
• Negotiated position preferred reading is understood but partially modified and rejected according to own cultural framework
• oppositional position preferred reading is understood but the message is decoded in a contrary wasy according to an alternative frame of reference (feminist, postcolonial)
• Medium extension of human capacities
• message "the message of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs"
• simulation image with resemblance to the original
• simulacrum image withour resemblance to the original
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• intermediality participation of more than one medium in one work
• transmediality refers to phenomena that are non-specific to individual media (motifs, themes)
• adaption translation of one work into another medium
• first cinema commercial hollywood cinema, classical cinema
• second cinema auteur or arthouse cinema, novelle cinema
• third cinema films and cinematic practice critizising colinialism and furthering decolonization
• forth cinema cinematic practices developed by indeginous people in settler colonies
• fifth cinema Ricardo Peach, queer cinema, feminist cinema, immigrant cinema etc.
• mode extension of cetrain genres beyond specific and time bond formal structures
• discourse the whole 'mental set' and ideology which encloses the thinking of all members of a given society

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