Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies, Stritzke

Intro to Literary and Cultural Studies

Intro to Literary and Cultural Studies

Lena Heupel

Lena Heupel

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Define clock time

measurable time

Define mind time

subjective experience of time

Explain Narration

Narration: focus on narrator=agent telling the story

homodiegetic narrator= double existence (narrating I, experiencing I) experiencing I is part of contenc as character

heterodiegetic narrator= only narrating I, tells story without being part of it, not one of the characters

texplicit/over= addresses reader directly, addresses himself as "I"

neutral/covert= doesn´t address reader or himself as "I"

Explain Focalization

Focalization: observer/perceiver/focalizer= agent perceiving the story

focalizer= subject of focalization  -->someone perceives, words of perceiption

focalized= object of focalization  -->someone or something is perceived

character focalizer= internal focalization, level of character -->charcter perceives

narrator focalizer= external focalization  -->narrator perceives

fixed focalization= only one character becomes agent of perceiption

variable/multiple focalization

Name the narrative modes of presenting consciousness

psycho narration, free-indirect discourse, interior monolog

Explain the three categories of narrative modes of presenting consciousness

psycho narration: narrator is reporting thoughts --> he thought, she thought

free-indirect discourse: tries to imitate subjectivity of character -->!?...  loose syntax

interior monlog: tries to imitate thoughts of character without narrator present  --> no verbs of thinking ot feeling

Name the text types distinguished in a play

primary text: meant to be spoken secondary text:gives necessary information

Explain the plot structure of a play

open action: scenic presentation on stage

hidden action: spatially and temporally  through hidden action we learn more about characters

spatially: something happens simoultaneously but we don´t see it

temporally: what happens before or in between acts

Define dialog (verbal communication in a play)

a succession of remarks and counterremarks between two or more characters

Define monolog (play)

the convention of a character thinking aloud on stage

Explain aside (play)

monological aside: character voices thoughts in a way only the audience undertsands

dialogical aside: a group of characters conduct a conversation in whsiper

aside ad spectatores: a character addresses a comment directly at the audience

Explain why monologs and asides compensate the lack of a mediating level

characters speak for themselves, there is no mediation needed. in aside ad spectatores you create the mediating level and in a monolog you compensate the mediating level

Explain the performance in a theatre in difference to a written text

in the performance in a theatre we have verbal (dialog, monolog, aside) as well as non-verbal modes of communication

non-verbal modes: acoustic dimension -->ring of phone, voices

                                   optical dimension -->facial expressions, age,appearance

                                   other modes of sensory perceiption --> temperature, vibration, smell

-therefore it is a multimedial form of presentation

-in a written text we do not have non-verbal modes of communication, we only have verbal modes of communication.

Definition of Literary Institution / System

 

 

The literary system can be described schematically as a network of relations consisting not only of literary texts, but also of the people that produce, mediate, read and process these texts, including authors, publishers, readers and critics.

Define Culture

 

 

A society with a specific mentality based on a civilisation