Introduction to Literature - Summary

A summary of EV LWS

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Lea Matuschka

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Sprache	English
Kategorie	Literatur
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Reader oriented Approaches (Receiver)

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)

Context-oriented approaches

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

Descriptive function (Theory, Model and Methods)

they enable us to identify and describe the characteristics of a literary text in a pre-cise way

Explanatory function

they can be used to express the premises of literary analysis, define basic terminolo-gy and explain the aims of the investigation

Typological function

they allow for a systematic classification of texts and their respective characteristics

Literary-historical function

they enable us to position texts within broader historical contexts

Defining Literature

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

Characteristic Features of Literary Texts

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)

Criteria for Scholarly Interpretations of Texts (10)

precision and comprehensibility terminological clarity logical coherence and systematic application of analytical categories methodological clarity coherence of argument and conclusions consistency and plausibility intersubjectivity critical consideration of previous research documentation of all sources used (primary and secondary) academic relevance

Types of Literary Interpretations

Thematic Interpretations - focus on content

formal Interpretations - focus on techniques of presentation