Introduction to Literature - Summary
A summary of EV LWS
A summary of EV LWS
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Cartes-fiches | 21 |
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Langue | English |
Catégorie | Littérature |
Niveau | Université |
Crée / Actualisé | 02.02.2013 / 02.02.2013 |
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o reception aesthetics/reader-response approaches (concerned with potential mean-ing inherent in text) o empirical reception studies approaches (concerned with actual impact on real readers)
Historical reality as context Sociological and Marxist approaches Feminist approaches New historicism Cultural materialism Other texts a s contexts Sources and influence studies Studies in intertextuality and intermediality
they enable us to identify and describe the characteristics of a literary text in a pre-cise way
they can be used to express the premises of literary analysis, define basic terminolo-gy and explain the aims of the investigation
they allow for a systematic classification of texts and their respective characteristics
they enable us to position texts within broader historical contexts
Broad Concept All written documents are literature Problems Hardly viable Exclusion of oral traditions (e.g. story telling) Narrower Concepts Common denominator: exclusion of non poetic and non imaginative texts Beyond that little consensus
Fictionality (often indicated by textual signals, e.g. “Once upon a time...”) Ambiguity replaces clarity and allows for a variety of interpretations Deviation from everyday language, which causesdefamiliarisation. Dominance of poetic rather than referential function of language Non-pragmatic discourse (literary texts usually neither serve an immediate purpose nor give direct instructions)