Lenses:
- Formalist - "Words on the page" - only art if primary purpose is to be art.
- Psychoanalytic - The psychology of the artist, or of the work itself, or of the audience. Based on Freud, with the concepts of id - instant gratification, ego - restrains id and mediates id/superego, superego - conscience, society's rules, morality.
- Marxism - masses vs. elite, class struggle.
- New Historicism - Historical context of author's life
- Post-Colonialism - How Imperialism influences marginalization of powerless
Types of Post-Colonialism:
- hegemony
- alienation
- subaltern
- exoticism
- demonization
- mimicry
- appropriation
- representation
- hybridity
- Literary Darwinism - Biological drives.
- Reader Response Theory - All meaning created by reader/audience.
- Mythological/Archetypal Critics
- Structuralism - Cultural STructures
- Post Structuralists.
It's interesting how much your, Emily's and my posts for this topic differ. You chose more of a list format while Emily had bullet points and I wrote out paragraphs. I like this format; it's easy to read and practical. It would have been nice if you filled in the rest of the definitions though!
ReplyDeleteI actually thought about doing the review in this format but I figured it would be too vague...which I see wasn't really the case here. I like what you did here and I thought it was pretty straightforward and easy to read. I think you covered all of the basic concepts that we went over during the time and I can't really think of anything else to say!
ReplyDeleteI can think of something else to say. Nothing listed under "Types of Post-Colonialism" is a type of Post-Colonialism. The first nine terms are terms associated with Po-Co. The next five terms are other types of criticism.
ReplyDeleteSo, no post for the history of literature? Close reading?