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    FELIX O. ALFELOR SR. FOUNDATION COLLOEGES INC.

    San Juan Avenue, Sipocot, Camarines Sur

    FLIT 3- Survey in the Philippine Literature in English

    Bromacom, Marlon T.
    BSEd- English 2nd year
    Part I.

    This question will appear on the final examination, though the


    list of terms will be reduced from twenty to ten. Define ten (10)
    of the concepts listed below as they have been used by the
    critics or theorists. In defining each term, please explain what
    the term means. Then, briefly identify the term's source or
    origin (as it appeared in our subject) and/or the theorist(s) who
    used the term. If the term has been relevant to multiple
    theorists, you do not need to cite each theorist who used it, but
    please try to identify the theorist or theorists for whom the
    term was most important. Finally, briefly explain the term's
    significance to history of literary theory since 1900.

    Gender/Sex

    Gender/sex or Gender Criticism describe and analyze the ways in


    which in literature portrays the narrative male domination in
    regard to female bodies by exploring the economic, social,
    political, and psychological forces embedded within literature.
    This was called as feminist criticism. Elaine showalter describes
    the development of feminist theory as having three phases. The
    first she call "feminist critique” which means feminist reader
    examines the ideologies behind the literary piece. Second is the
    gynocriticsm in which woman is producer of textual meaning and
    the third is the "gender theory" which the ideological
    inscription and the literary effects of Sex/gender systems are
    explored. In 1900s the Gender Criticism help some female author
    to address the women's voice and corroborate to make using
    literature on how gender discrimination affects them socially and
    mentally. This feminist sought to fight for the equal rights and
    with these the theory enlightened the readers how women important
    and powerful is.

    Defamiliaration

    Is the routine of ordinary experience, Shklovsky contended,


    rendered invisible the uniqueness and particularity of the
    objects of existence. Literary language, partly by calling
    attention to itself as language, estranged the reader from the
    familiar and made fresh the experience of daily life.

    “Postcolonial Criticism”

    Investigates the relationships between colonizers and colonized


    in the period post-colonization. Though the two fields are
    increasingly finding points of intersection—the work of bell
    hooks, for example—and are both activist intellectual
    enterprises, “Ethnic Studies and “Postcolonial Criticism” have
    significant differences in their history and ideas.
    “Postcolonial” theory reverses the historical center/margin
    direction of cultural inquiry: critiques of the metropolis and
    capital now emanate from the former colonies. Moreover, theorists
    like Homi K. Bhabha have questioned the binary thought that
    produces the dichotomies—center/margin, white/black, and
    colonizer/colonized—by which colonial practices are justified.
    “Postcolonial Criticism” pursues not merely the inclusion of the
    marginalized literature of colonial peoples into the dominant
    canon and discourse. “Postcolonial Criticism” offers a
    fundamental critique of the ideology of colonial domination and
    at the same time seeks to undo the “imaginative geography” of
    Orientalist thought that produced conceptual as well as economic
    divides between West and East, civilized and uncivilized, First
    and Third Worlds.

    Androgyny

    In Modern Literature engages with the ways in which the trope of


    androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-
    centuries. Alchemical, platonic, sexological, psychological and
    decadent representations of androgyny have provided writers with
    an icon which has been appropriated in diverse ways. This
    fascinating new study traces different revisions of the psycho-
    sexual, embodied, cultural and feminist fantasies and
    repudiations of this unstable but enduring trope across a broad
    range of writers from the fin de siècle to the present.

    Semiotics

    The study of signs, has experienced a great rise in interest


    since the 1990s primarily through its application in the
    interpretation of literary texts and, by extension, culture. The
    role of semiotics in literary criticism is to establish key
    theoretical models that can provide insights so that the
    connection of the texts to broader meaning structures within
    literary practices can be better understood. The sign is analyzed
    within two fundamental frameworks as established by Saussure and
    Peirce. Introductions to the field, such as Chandler 2002 and
    Nöth 1990, typically see these two models as incompatible.
    PART II. (30 points)

    Which of the theories or texts we studied this semester seems to


    you the most useful for the analysis and interpretation of
    literary texts? Which of these seems the most distant from the
    actual practice of interpreting and analyzing literary texts?

    Write an essay that explains your answer to these two questions


    and compares the two selected texts.

    In literature, literary criticism defined as the supplemental


    need of reader to explore the author’s interest in writing the
    particular piece and these criticism tend to see the hidden
    character of the writer. In this subject, I think the theory or
    text that we studied which is most useful for analysis and
    interpretation of literary texts is the reader’s response. The
    Readers Response suits on how student analyse the piece in
    literature. The main use of Readers Response criticism attempts
    to describe what had been happened in a text through the
    interpretation of the readers mind which includes how the reader
    is being creative in thinking hence they will focus on their own
    perspectives. Readers Response criticism creates and recognize
    the importance of an author’s wit that give readers to provide
    such a meaning to a text and allowing them to think critically.

    In our subject, the theory or literary criticism that seems the


    most distant from the actual practice of interpreting and
    analysing the literary text is the psychoanalytic theory. A
    Psychoanalytic reading aims to better understand the inner
    workings of human behaviour by conceptualising meaning from
    everyday human experiences such as anxieties, trauma, sexuality,
    repression of the unconscious and dream meanings, as well as the
    meaning of death. We use our experiences in order for us to
    relate in that particular text, we see ourselves as a character
    by putting ourselves into the world of literature or in one
    masterpiece/work which we can easily describe and interpret what
    is the meaning of a text and the purpose of the author by
    creating a story. This psychoanalytic theory by Sigmund Freud
    helps the reader to understand some meaning of a context. It is
    also necessary for readers to look for the deeper meaning that
    led to readers to think and critic concisely yet determining how
    idea of a human works.

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