The Sonnet

Shakespearean/English sonnet

vs.

Petrarchan/Italian sonnet

rhyme scheme?
how many lines?
theme?

Quatrain
German

literary theories

quote about theoretical interpretations

can we analize a text without any knowledge about literary theories?

literary theories

Can we mix literary theories?

Close reading

-Pope's opening moves (4)

-Pope's core questions

author-oriented approaches

(historical) reality as context

text-oriented approaches

reader-oriented approaches

other texts as context

diagram

text-oriented approaches

New Criticism

Russian Formalism // Functionalism

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Functionalism

Brecht's Epic Theatre

Structuralist Approach

Post-Structuralist Approach // Deconstruction

quotes

Deconstruction

Post-Structuralist Approach // Deconstruction

What do we ask?

Reading with/against the grain

Reader-oriented approaches

Reader-Response Criticism

What does it look at?

two beliefs

Reader-Response Criticism

sample questions

(Historical) reality as context

(approaches)

Marxist Approach(es)

what?

authors

Marxist approach diagram

economic base & ideological superstructure

Marxist approach diagram

Marxist Approach(es) Sample questions

New Historicism (US) / Cultural Materialism (UK)

author?

New Historicism (US) / Cultural Materialism (UK)

Post-Colonial Approach

Post-Colonial Approach
Sample questions

Minority Discourse

Feminist Theory

gynocriticism

Feminist Theory
Sample questions

Queer Theory

Queer Theory sample questions

Author oriented approaches

Psychoanalytic Approach