Odysseus was one of the legendary heroes in Greek folklore. He was the king of the island of Ithara and the central character of Homer’s heroic poem‚ The Odyssey. Son of Laertes and Anticlea‚ known for his persuasive speech and for his wisdom and comprehension. Odysseus saved the people of Greece in the Trojan War and helped them to emerge victorious. In this mythology‚ the war between the Trojans and the Greeks took place when Paris‚ who was the Trojan prince‚ kidnapped Helen. Helen was the wife
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which binary gender identities are presumed to flow from given biological sex and to require compulsoryheterosexuality. She takes up the writings of a number of‚ mainly French‚ theorists: Simone de Beauvoir‚ Jacques Lacan‚ Luce Irigaray‚ Julia Kristeva‚ Monique Wittig‚ mobilizing Michel Foucault’s critique of the ’repressive hypothesis’ against the psychoanalytic notion of a polymorphous
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intertextuality (such as those developed by Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva). Intertextuality challenges the idea of a text’s ability to be truly original and therefore disagrees with Hirsch’s theory. In this essay‚ I will focus on how conscious intertextuality as well as the semiotics involved in unconscious intertextuality both dispute the idea that the meaning of a text belongs exclusively to its author’s intentions. Julia Kristeva‚ who was the first to use the term "intertextuality"‚ proposed
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Introduction to literary theory Theory Kind of speculation‚ it’s analytical Interdisciplinary discourse (debate) with effects outside an original discipline (Culler) Critique of common sense‚ of concept taken as natural What is literature? Elusive term (always changing) Modern sense – 200 yrs old Prior to 1800 literature was „memorized“ not interpreted In fiction the relation of what speaker say to what authors think is always a mater of interpretation Dictionary: imaginative or creative
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Holly Campbell Period 6 English 12 Overview of Feminist Criticism Feminist Criticism has expanded and grown wide since the 1970’s‚ having become more socially acceptable in todays age. Some primary elements that make up this criticism are “rediscovering old works by women and male writers‚ analyzing the language and meaning differences of ways of male and female speaking/writing‚ and analyzing the domination of masculine ways in languages” (Ross C Murfin- Pages 296‚298). These elements have
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and culture. Intertextuality was first introduced by the French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late sixties‚ and describes how texts can be understood with references to other texts- often associated primarily with poststructuralist theories. Kristeva referred to texts in terms of two axes: a horizontal axis connecting the author and reader of a text‚ and a vertical axis‚ which connects the text to other texts (Kristeva‚ 1980). Uniting these two axes are shared codes: every text is dependent on
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American Gothic Fiction From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic_Fiction American Gothic Fiction is a subgenre of Gothic Fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rational vs irrational‚ puritanism‚ guilt‚ Das Unheimliche (strangeness within the familiar as defined by Sigmund Freud)‚ abhumans‚ ghosts‚ monsters‚ and domestic abjection. The roots of these concepts lay in a past riddled with slavery‚ a fear of racial mixing (miscegenation)
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compile from pre-existing texts known as intertextuality‚ the use of prior texts in current texts. Julia Kristeva‚ a psychoanalyst is the first to introduce the term ‘intertextuality’. She redefines the theories established by Ferdinand de Saussure and Mikhail Bakhtin and suggests a text is not simply interpreted by its words‚ instead it is a study based on the works it has adapted (lecture). Kristeva mentions that although a writer usually talks to a specific audience‚ a text exists in time‚ and it
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Critical Theory Cheat Sheet Donald E. Hall. Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications. Houghton Mifflin‚ 2001. Theory Formalism /New Criticism 1920’s forward Reader Response Rhetorical Analysis Marxist/Materialist Analysis Psychoanalytic Analysis Key Ideas -analysis of literary structures (genre; character‚ plot‚ setting‚ etc.) -rejected literature’s historical and biographical contexts -intrinsic meaning of texts; literature expresses
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News Article On Culture In the United Kingdom‚ sociologists and other scholars influenced by Marxism‚ such as Stuart Hall and Raymond Williams‚ developed Cultural Studies. Following nineteenth century Romantics‚ they identified "culture" with consumption goods and leisure activities (such as art‚ music‚ film‚ food‚ sports‚ and clothing). Nevertheless‚ they understood patterns of consumption and leisure to be determined by relations of production‚ which led them to focus on class relations and the
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