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Key Words & Modern Lit Theory
Identify each modern lit theory by their key words. Based off of http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm
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Literature
Graduate
11/26/2008

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Intentional Fallacy, Affective Fallacy, Heresy of Paraphrase, Close Reading
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New Criticism
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Anima, Animus, Archetype, Collective Unconscious, Persona, Shadow
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Archetypal / Myth Criticism
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Unconscious, Id, Ego, Superego, Imaginary, Symbolic, Real
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Psychoanalytic Criticism
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Commodification, Conspicuous consumption, dialectical materialism, material circumstances,reflectionism, superstructure.
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Marxism
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Alterity, Diaspora, Eurocentrism, Hybridity, Imperialism
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Postcolonialism
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Absurd, Authenticity, Leap of Faith
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Existentialism
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Dasein, Intentionality, Phenomenological Reduction
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Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
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Carnival, Heteroglossia, Monologism, Polyphony
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Russian Formalism / Prague Linguistic Circle / Linguistic Criticism / Dialogic Theory
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Avant-Garde, Surrealism
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Dadaism
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Binary Opposition, Mythemes, Sign vs. Symbol, Structuralist Narratology
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Structuralism and Semiotics
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Aporia, Differance, Erasure (sous rature), Logocentrism, Metaphysics of Presence, Supplement, Trace, Transcendental Signifier
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Post-Structuralism / Deconstruction
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Play, Chance, Anarchy, Paratactic, Absence, Rhizome / Surface, Fragmentation, Anti-authoritarianism
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Postmodernism
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Discourse, Episteme, Power, Self-positioning, Thick description
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New Historicism
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Horizons of Expectations, Implied reader,interpretive communities, transactional analysis
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Reception and Reader-Response Theory
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Androgyny, Backlash, Ecriture feminine, essentialism, gynocentrics, jouissance, patriarchy, phallologocentrism, second and third wave, semiotic,
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Feminism
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Focuses on the characteristics, structures, and conventions attributed to different forms of literature.
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Genre Criticism
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Explores autobiographies of women vs. public males.
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Autobiographical Theory
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Transculturation, metropolitan center, imperial eyes, contact zones, border crossing, tourist / traveler, margin, expatriation, displacement.
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Travel Theory
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