What decade did formalism become popular?

Which theory/criticism is concerned with literariness?

At what university did New Criticism originate?

“Organic unity” is important to what school of criticism?

“Close reading” of the text is a characteristic of literary theory?

Cleanth Brooks is an important figure to what school of criticism?

What is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar?

Boris Eichenbaum is often associated with what literary theory?

Roman Jakobson is associated with what literary theory?

Definition: conflicts or tensions exist by the very nature of diction.

Definition: the error of interpreting and evaluating a literary work by the author’s intended aims and meanings.

Definition: the belief that the meaning or value of a work may be determined by its effect on the reader.

Definition: the integral unit of the poem which results from the resolution of opposites, often in irony or paradox.

What is the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group not through overt means but by making its ideological views so pervasive that the subordinate class accepts its own oppression?

What are the beliefs, values, and ways of thinking and feeling through which human beings perceive to be reality?

In Marxist theory, the dominant and exploitative class is the

Definition: describes the way in which the dominant class shapes and controls an individual’s self-definition or class consciousness

Marxist literary theory and criticism is a ____________century phenomenon.

Who wrote The Communist Manifesto?

Definition: workers or working-class people, regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism)

Definition: the ideologies that dominate a particular era, all that "men say, imagine, conceive," including such things as "politics, laws, morality, religion, metaphysics, etc."

According to Elaine Showalter, what was the first phase historical phases of female writing?

According to Elaine Showalter, what was the second historical phase of female writing?

According to Elaine Showalter, what was the third historical phase of female writing?

In gynocriticism, which model emphasizes how the female body marks itself upon a text by providing a host of literary images and a personal, intimate tone?

In gynocriticism, which model asserts that women can and do create a language peculiar to their gender?

In gynocriticism, which model emphasizes the flux and fluidity of female writing as opposed to male rigidity and structure?

In gynocriticism, which model investigates how the society in which female authors work and function shapes women’s goals, responses, and points of view?

Who is the father of psychoanalytic theory?

In what century did psychoanalysis begin?

Definition: irrational part of the human psyche that receives and stores our hidden desires, ambitions, fears, passions, and irrational thoughts (governs large part of our actions) .

Definition: the rational and waking part of the human psyche (the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious)

Definition: storehouse of memories which the conscious part of the mind allows to be brought to consciousness without disguise.

Definition: designates the irrational, instinctual, unknown, and unconscious part of the psyche

Definition: •designates the rational, logical, waking part of the psyche

Definition: designates the part of the psyche that acts like an internal censor.

Definition: defense mechanism whereby a person directs their negative emotions and frustrations onto another object in order to get rid of the negative feelings

Definition: a single idea (an image, memory, or thought) or dream object stands for several associations and ideas

Definition: a nervous disorder that has no known bodily or physical cause that leads to a variety of physical and psychological abnormalities.

A literary work written in dramatic form with dialogue and stage directions, but it is intended by the author to be read rather than to be performed.

Definition: a type of comedy designed to provoke the audience to laughter; consists of highly exaggerated or caricatured types of characters

Definition: ancient Greek form of tragicomedy, similar in spirit to the bawdy satire of burlesque.

• Definition: the main character of a literary work

Definition: a character or force against which another character struggles

Definition: a major character in a story who exhibits complex behaviors and understanding

Definition: refers to a character who boasts no mental or emotional development

Definition: a character that experiences inner changes throughout the plot of a story.

• Definition: characters that do not experience basic character changes during the story

• Definition: a character in a story whose purpose is to bring out certain characteristics in either the main character or in other characters.

Definition: excessive pride.

Definition: a representation of a smell

Definition: a representation of a taste

Definition: Pertains to personal experiences of a character’s body, including emotion and the senses of hunger, thirst, fatigue, and pain.

Definition: movement; physical tension

What kind of imagery is in the following sentence? The crimson apple glistened in her hand.

What kind of imagery is in the following sentence? The trees swayed in unison to the wintry wind.

What kind of imagery is in the following sentence? The roaring thunder frightened the little boy.

What kind of imagery is in the following sentence? The warm, salty broth soothed her sore throat as she ate the soup.

What kind of imagery is in the following sentence? The gnawing of her stomach kept her awake to the wee hours of the morning.

What kind of imagery is in the following sentence? The birds flapped their wings in excitement, the promise of food so close.

Who was the Father of New Criticism?

Which of the following people was a New Critic theorist?

Which of the following people was a New Critic theorist?