Critical Theory
English Literature
English Literature
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Cartes-fiches
Structuralism
The analysis of sign structures
Work
A physical object (e.g. a book, pile of paper pages)
Text
A set of meanings produced when a reader reads the work to produce the text
Lisible Text
Readable; moves towards closure, suggests a "correct" final meaning
Scriptible Text
Writable; remains open to meaning, resists closure
Author
The linguistic function that produces the text
External Reader
The real-life person reading a book
Inscribed Reader
A fictional reader within the story world; often a character performing the act of reading
Implied Reader
The assumed external reader that is directly addressed by the narrator
Heuristic Reading
First reading or reading for meaning
Retroactive Reading
Secondary reading or reading for interpretation
Informed Reader
The author expects the external reader to be familiar with certain knowledge
Interpretive Communities
Groups of readers who share common ways of reading, based on shared cultural identities
Identity
Continual process of gathering fragments into a whole to be validated from outside; the desire for identity and recognition is always defeated but always renewed
Homology
Relationship o sameness between the real world and the textual world
Sex
Biological; the physical sexual characteristics definitive of male and female
Gender
Cultural; the sociocultural characteristics attributed to the different biological sexes: masculine vs. feminine
Feminism
Political position
Gender Binary
The idea that there are only two genders defined by biological characteristics (Male & Female)
Gynocentrism
The study of female writers, as women, within the female literary tradition and as a part of a distinct women's culture
