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    Critical Theory Today : A User-Friendly Guide

    Critical Theory Today : A User-Friendly Guide


    01 Psychoanalytic criticism
    02 Marxist criticism
    03 Feminist criticism
    04 New Criticism
    05 Reader-response criticism
    06 Structuralist criticism
    07 Deconstructive criticism
    08 New historical and cultural criticism
    09 Lesbian, gay, and queer criticism
    10 African American criticism
    11 Postcolonial criticism
    5 New Criticism

    “The text itself” (text⧸author⧸reader⧸world) (close reading)


    Literary language and organic unity (The Well Wrought Urn)

    A New Critical reading of “There Is a Girl Inside”

    New Criticism as intrinsic, objective criticism (intrinsic⧸extrinsic) (The Mirror and the Lamp Link )
    The single best interpretation (intentional fallacy⧸affective fallacy) (affect―affective―affection)

    The question New Critics asked about literary texts

    The “deathless song” of longing: a New Critical reading of The Great Gatsby

    Questions for further practice: New Critical approaches to other literary works
    For further reading
    For advanced readers
    6 Reader-response criticism

    The House Passage ( J. A. Pichert and R. C. Anderson―Taking Different Perspectives on a Story)

    Transactional reader-response theory


    Affective stylistics (affect―affective―affection)
    Subjective reader-response theory
    Psychological reader-response theory
    Social reader-response theory
    Defining readers

    Some questions reader-response critics ask about literary texts

    Projecting the reader: a reader-response analysis of The Great Gatsby

    Questions for further practice: reader‑response approaches to other literary works


    For further reading
    For advanced readers
    7 Structuralist criticism (Saussure, Ferdinand De)

    Structural linguistics (structure and system ― syntagmatic and paradigmatic relation)


    { phoneme⧸prosodeme < syllable < morpheme < word < phrase⧸clause < sentence < paragraph < discourse }

    Structural anthropology (Claude Lévi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques)


    Semiotics
    Structuralism and literature
    The structure of literary genres
    The structure of narrative (structuralist narratology) (hero’s life)
    The structure of literary interpretation

    Some questions structuralist critics ask about literary texts

    “Seek and ye shall find” and then lose: a structuralist reading of The Great Gatsby

    Questions for further practice: structuralist approaches to other literary works


    For further reading
    For advanced readers
    8 Deconstructive criticism (Post-StructuralismㆍPost-modernism) (Jacques Derrida⋅Nietzsche)

    Deconstructing language
    Deconstructing our world
    Deconstructing human identity
    Deconstructing literature

    logos (ethosㆍpathos) ㆍㆍㆍ


    binary systemㆍdualism ― langue/parole (competence/performance), signifiant/signifié ㆍㆍㆍ
    모음/자음, 어간/어미, 어근/접사, 체언/용언, 주어/술어, 사동/피동, 높임/낮춤, 긍정/부정, 주절/종속절, 남성/여성 ㆍㆍㆍ
    남/여, 고/저, 좌/우, 이성/감정, 의미/무의미, 합리/불합리, 중심/주변, 심층/표면, 명/암, 백/흑, 장/단, 문명/자연, 우/열, 선/악 ㆍㆍㆍ

    A deconstructive reading of Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”

    Some questions deconstructive critics ask about literary texts

    “the thrilling, returning trains of my youth”: a deconstructive reading of The Great Gatsby

    Questions for further practice: deconstructive approaches to other literary works


    For further reading
    For advanced readers

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