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-"Horizon of Expectations"
-tries to make bridge between history and reader
-public understands genre and has certain expectations
-text appeal to a given era |
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| Han Robert Jauss, Toward an Aesthetic of Reception |
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-There needs to be a personal sense of literature
-Un-selfconscious, spontaneous, honest reaction
-Reader's experience in reading the work is what gives it meaning |
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| Louise Rosenblatt, Literature as Exploration |
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-Influenced by Kant and Hegel
-"Imagination asa shaping power and unifier of vision"
-Elicits delight from part to whole
-Organic form grows from the author's subject and materials
-Thoughts=flower germ=seed sprouting |
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| Coleridge, Defense of Poetry |
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-"Orderly arrangements of parts" that are treated as a whole
-New criticism [formalism] |
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| -"Old historicism" and textual scholarship |
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| Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticisms |
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| -Textual scholarship: to establish an "authentic text" (author's intention) |
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| James Thorpe, Principles of Textual Scholarships |
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-Based on Coleridge's theory
-Lyric Poem and short tales/stories
-Can transmit a unified effect |
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| Poe, The Philosophy of Composition |
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| Stanley Fish, Literature in the Reader |
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-"Art of fiction"
-Fiction is a fine art |
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-Concept of Objective Correlative
-A set of objects (situation or change of events) which shall be the formula of a particular emotion |
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| Main authors of formalist criticism |
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| Founding father of New Criticism |
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| Intentional fallacy: meaning outside the text is irrelevant |
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| Affective fallacy: discounts the reader's reaction or input |
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-Relativism
-Perceiver plays an active role in the making of meaning
-Ideas about conceptual and constructed nature of knowledge |
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