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Literary and Cultural Studies (Fach) / Statements (Lektion)
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- Terry Eagleton "Literature does not exist" "Value-judgements are notoriously variable" "The claim that knowledge should be ‘value-free’ isitself a value-judgement." british literary theorist, cultural materialist, marxist critic
- Walter J. Org primary, secondary, residual orality
- Pio Zirimu "Orature"
- Wilhelm Dilthey juxtaposition of natural sciences and humanities
- Classical Theory and Criticism Plato, Horace, Aristotle
- Plato Republic "In the past, it’s always been the poets who’vecomposed untrue stories to tell people, and it’s notdifferent nowadays.’ – ‘Which stories?’ he asked.‘And what’s their defect, in your view?’ […] ‘Usingthe written word to give a distorted image of thenature of the gods and heroes, just as a paintermight produce a portrait which completely fails tocapture the likeness of the original.”
- Aristotle Poetics Mimesis: Representation is natural to human beings from childhood For this reason poetry is a more philosophical and more seriousthing than history; poetry tends to speak of universals,history of particulars.”
- Horace Ars Poetica -literary theory in verse form – poetry is not merely inspired madness (as inPlato‘s work), but an art or craft (ars) thatrequires instruction and practice – poetry should both “instruct and delight”(prodesse et delectare) and be “pleasing anduseful” (dulce et utile)
- Neoclassical Theory and Criticism Sir Philip Sidney
- Romantic Theory and Criticism Pery Bysshe Shelley
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- Michel Foucault arbitrary impositions on an otherwise dynamic system • “delimits in the totality of experience a field ofknowledge, defines the mode of being of the objects thatappear in that field, provides man’s everyday perceptionwith theoretical powers, and defines the condition inwhich he can sustain a discourse about things that isrecognized to be true” (172) • a means of creating and controlling knowledge and, thus,of consolidating power
- Practical Criticism F.R. Leavis
- New Criticism Allen Tate
- Susan Sontag Criticism of New Criticism “[W]e need an erotics of art".
- Modern Hermeneutics Hans Georg Gadamer
- Louis Althusser Ideology critique "Ideology is the system of ideas and representations which dominate the mind of a man or social group"
- Clifford Geertz social anthropology "The culture of people is an ensemble of texts"
- Ferdinand de Saussure signified +signifier
- Charles Sanders Peirce typology of signs
- Jacques Derrida "There is nothing outside the text"
- Jacques Lacan "It is the world of words that creates the world of things"
- Roland Barthes "The Reality Effect” denotation, connotation, mythology
- Matthew Arnold "Culture and Anarchy"
- F.R. and Q.D. Leavis High/Folk/popular culture
- Frankfurt School "opium for the people" mass popular culture as product of the culture industry
- Raymond Williams marxist literary critic "Culture is ordinary, that is where we must start"
- Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Stuart Hall Aim: social critique and political change
- Simone de Beauvoir One is not born but rather becomes a woman
- Elaine Showalter American literary critic and feminist History of Women's Writing
- Tsvetan Todorov Memory is in no way the opposite of forgetting
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- Hayden White Emplotment
- Stephen Greenblatt New Historicism Equal weight of literary and non-literary texts
- Edward Said Orientalism
- Macauly Minute on Indian Education
- Homi Bhabha limits of self/other dichotomies
- Gayatri Spivak There is no place from which the sexed subaltern subject can speak
- Stuart Hall identity is a process of becoming
- counter-discourse writing back to an English canonical text
- Marlene NourbeSe philip hybrid genre, mother tongue
- Gayle Rubin "The Traffic in Women" sex vs. gender
- ecocritisism study of the relationship between literature and physical environment
- environmentalism resistance to radical social change; small actions
- deep ecology misanthropic, earth-centered critique
- ecofeminism relationship to nature differentiated by gender
- social ecology aim of social and ecological transformation
- Rachel Carson "A Silent Spring"
- Niklas Luhmann What we know about society, indeed, about the world we live in, we know it through the mass media.
- Shannon and Weaver Transmission Model of Communication
- Stuart Hall encoding/decoding
- Marshall McLuhan technological determinist message ≠ content