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Key Terms: New Criticism - Formalism Into Functionalism

This document provides key terms and concepts from a literature and culture class, including: - Close reading focuses on examining the text itself without considering authorial intent or reader response. - Ambiguity and paradox give readers freedom to interpret meaning in different ways. Intentional and affective fallacies are mistakes in interpreting a work based on author intentions or emotional response rather than the text itself. - Defamiliarization and foregrounding are techniques used to make familiar things unfamiliar through language use and draw parallels between reality and art. Literature has aesthetic and other functions like shaping thought and speech.

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Key Terms: New Criticism - Formalism Into Functionalism

This document provides key terms and concepts from a literature and culture class, including: - Close reading focuses on examining the text itself without considering authorial intent or reader response. - Ambiguity and paradox give readers freedom to interpret meaning in different ways. Intentional and affective fallacies are mistakes in interpreting a work based on author intentions or emotional response rather than the text itself. - Defamiliarization and foregrounding are techniques used to make familiar things unfamiliar through language use and draw parallels between reality and art. Literature has aesthetic and other functions like shaping thought and speech.

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Szőcs Gábor

Zámbóné dr. Kocic Larisa


Introduction to literature and culture 2.
Thursday’s class from 1400 to 1530

Key terms: NEW CRITICISM | FORMALISM INTO


FUNCTIONALISM
Close reading:
-Close reading is an instructional routine in which we critically examine a text
-It is text-centered -> we have to read what’s on the page
-It doesn’t matter what the text is about, what is the author’s identity and what is the reader’s
role.
Ambiguity:
-is a word, phrase or sentence which contains more than one meaning.
-ambiguity gives the reader a chance to think more deeply about the meaning of a
word/sentence/phrase.
-writers usually use it to give the reader some freedom by allowing them to make their own
interpretation of what is happening.
Intentional fallacy:
-It reminds the readers to read the text with different views -> content level and the narrator’s
view
-it is the mistake of attempting to understand the author's intentions when interpreting a
literary work
Affective fallacy:
-it means the confusion between the poem and its result
-the false belief that the value or meaning of a work may be determined by its affect on the
reader.
-it refers to the supposed error of judging or evaluating a text on the basis of its emotional
effects on a reader
“The language of poetry is the language of paradox”:
-The various elements of poetry and definitions won’t lead us to closer to the meaning.
-The real meaning is hidden behind different types of ambiguity and paradox.
Defamiliarization:
-It means when the writer draws a parallel between the reality and his/her art.
-The author makes a well-known thing unfamiliar.
Foregrounding:
-It’s a litery device --> the author creates defamiliarization through linguistic
-it refers to the range of stylistic effects that occur in literature, whether at the phonetic level,
or the semantic level -> usage of alliteration, metaphor, rhyme, etc.
Organized violence committed on ordinary speech:
-It’s a speech, but not like everyday life’s speech
-This type of speech is estranging, intensifying and invigorating the everday’ speech.
(Aesthetic) function:
-Literature has loads of functions, such as sharing knowledge, teaching how to think
differently and thus gives power. The power of knowledge. Literature is also a tool of
entertainment and a speech shaper. (shaping our speech)
-Aesthetic means the artistic expressions within a text.
Fabula vs sjuzhet:
-Fabula refers to the chronological order in which the events of a story take place.
-Sjuzhet refers to the sequence in which the author chooses to relate those events, which we
could describe as the storyline or the plot.

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