Critical Approaches to Literature II Information

Critical Approaches to Literature II

Added on: Jun 6, 2007

Location: Philippines, Davao City

Language: English

Categories: Literature

Historicizing literature anew
on Feb 6, 2008 in 2. Historicizing Literature 2.3 New Historicism New Historicism Text Textuality Thick description Green and LeBihan describes how Stephen Greenblatt and other New Historicists (Greenblatt’s term) looked at history “not in terms of discrete episodes forming an homogeneous whole, but as fractured, subjective, and above all textual”...

The literariness of history, historicizing literature, etc.
on Jan 14, 2008 in 2. Historicizing Literature Literary history Philippine literature Consider this: In the grades and through high school, I learned that Philippine literature developed through several stages or periods. First, there was the the oral literature of the inhabitants during the prehistorical period; that is, before these...

The politics of defining literature
on Jan 14, 2008 in 2. Historicizing Literature 2.1 Defining Literature Definitions Ideology Literary history Literature A very good introduction to the subject is Terry Eagleton’s “Introduction: What is Literature?” (the first chapter of Literary Theory: An Introduction). In it, he enumerates several ways by which we usually define literature. But th...

Literature used to be the new religion, now …
on Jan 14, 2008 in 2. Historicizing Literature 2.1 Defining Literature Definitions Ideology Literary history Literary studies Literature Matthew Arnold To quote (again) Terry Eagleton quoting George Gordon, early Professor of English Literature at Oxford (in Chap. 2, “The Rise of English,” Literary Theory: An Introduction): “England is sick, and … English literature must save...

Are we post-Romantics in our definition of literature?
on Jan 14, 2008 in 2. Historicizing Literature 2.1 Defining Literature Definitions Ideology Literary history Literature Romanticism I would like to pretend I’m from the upper class and be a snob and, sitting in the library (like the image to the right grabbed from Raby Castle), say: “No, that’s not how we look at literature. Literary texts, for us, are only thos...

Going beyond linguistic texts
on Dec 3, 2007 in 1.4 Structuralism 1.4.2 Semiotics Culture Ferdinand de Saussure Semiotics Text You may come across such terms as “the vocabulary of film” or “the grammar of TV documentaries,” and of critics/theorists talking about “reading fashion.” Why, you may wonder, are these linguistic and literary term...

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