Critical theorys
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- Created on: 02-10-14 09:31
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- Critical Theory
- Marxist theory
- Concerned with material possessions
- Our society dictates our consciousness: if you're born to a lower class you will always be lower class.
- Themes: Heirachry, social class, outsiders (alienation), public authority
- We have less free will than we think
- Eg Gatsby: high class but essensially still looked down on (By tom ect.)
- Feminist theory
- The personal and the political cannot be seperated- directly connected to political organisation
- sexual steriotyping is lazy
- Question traditional female and male roles. Distribution of power biased towards men.
- Eg women are helplesss and usually seductive or immoral
- Metaphor theory
- Importance of elements in a text that are meaphorical
- Eg. similie, metaphor, personifictation, reification, symbol ect
- How creative or coventional a metaphor is
- Conventional metaphors: so overused public don't notice eg: will fight disease
- Creative: A metaphor that needs to be pondered by the reader to be understood- used to express particular idea or feeling
- Conceptual bleeding: Linking 2 different ideas to create 1 consept eg tennis describing love
- Transferred Epithet: A word transferred from one subject to another that STILL works eg dogs in the wet nosed yard
- Synecdoche: Substitutes part for whole eg. 10 hands represents 10 workers (part of a whole)
- Metonymy: substitute cause for effect
- Importance of elements in a text that are meaphorical
- Aesthetic Critics/ beauty adn value
- How many beautiful qualities does something have
- The relationships between somethings external form and its internal subject matter
- Canonical literature: timeless classics eg dickins- if they are payed special attention. tasteful and refined.
- Untitled
- Canonical criteria: Timless books are used in syllybusses
- Brathes Readerly and Writerly
- Readerly: so lost in a book you don't notice youre reading
- Writerly: makes the audience work harder to understand techniques
- Marxist theory
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