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	Literary theory
		Literary theory is the theory (or the philosophy) of the interpretation of literature and literary criticism.
		New Criticism, literary theory popular in the first half of the 20th century looks at literary works on the basis of what is written, and not at the goals of the author or biographical issues.
		Since the New Criticism, at least in English-speaking countries, is often thought of as the beginning of modern literary criticism, Richards is one of the founders of the contemporary study of literature in English.
	www.jahsonic.com /LiteraryTheory.html (1840 words)

	Psychoanalytic criticism - No Subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From the perspective of literary studies, the discovery of Lacan in the mid-1970s, initially by feminist and Marxist literary critics, revitalized the rather moribund practice of psychoanalytic criticism and reinstated psychoanalysis at the cutting edge of critical theory.
		The object of psychoanalytic criticism was no longer to hunt for phallic symbols or to explain Hamlet's hesitation to revenge his father's death by his repressed sexual desire for his mother (see Jones 1949) but to analyse the way unconscious desires manifest themselves in the text, through language.
		It would be erroneous, however, to speak of the psychoanalysis of authors; psychoanalytic criticism is an application of Freudian theory and not an equivalent to a talking cure involving a direct encounter between analyst and analysand.
	www.nosubject.com /Psychoanalytic_criticism (725 words)

	Norman N. Holland, The Mind and the Book
		Usually the critic would relate the complex or the slip of the tongue or the phallic symbol to the mind of the author, as in Freud's studies of Dostoevsky or da Vinci.
		Literary criticism, any kind of criticism, rests on the purpose of literature itself, for, after all, criticism is, as the old saying has it, only the handmaiden to the muse.
		I believe that the psychoanalytic literary critic's primary job is to foreground that psychological element in what he or she says about books.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/nnh/mindbook.htm (3906 words)

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		Literary criticism is the study, analysis, and evaluation of imaginative literature.
		The twentieth century formalistic approach, often referred to as the New Criticism, also assumes that a work of literary art is an organic unity in which every element contributes to the total meaning of the work.
		Biographical criticism investigates the life of an author using primary texts, such as letters, diaries, and other documents, that might reveal the experiences, thoughts, and feelings that led to the creation of a literary work.
	www.teachrobb.com /documents/Criticism.htm (6572 words)

	Literary Criticism
		The History of Literary Criticism: The study of the great tradition of critical commentary, beginning with Plato's attacks on poetry and ending with the writings of some important 20th critics, offers a history in miniature of literature and its sister arts throughout the ages.
		Both express great skepticism about recent critical schools, such as Marxist, feminist, and cultural approaches, that shift the standards of literary evaluation away from aesthetic standards of artistic excellence to the demands of social and political agendas.
		Literary texts, especially from the great tradition, are of little use in helping freshman learn to write; they are too difficult and provide models of written expression that cannot be emulated (or even understood) by underclassmen; better choices would be texts from popular culture, current events, or adolescent literature.
	www.georgiasouthern.edu /~dougt/4538.html (2035 words)

	Literary Criticism
		Criticism which chooses to search for a text's formative influences and constitutive elements in the realm of myth.
		criticism feminism is a mode of discourse that emphasizes and analyzes the gender relationships in
		In Reader-Response criticism a text is viewed as a process that goes on in the mind of the reader rather than as a stable entity with a single "correct meaning".
	www.fortunecity.com /boozers/volunteer/254/Literary_Criticism.htm (1755 words)

	Hysterical realism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Psychoanalytic reading has been practiced since the early development of psychoanalysis itself, and has developed into a rich and heterogeneous interpretive tradition.
		The object of psychoanalytic literary criticism, at its very simplest, can be the psychoanalysis of the author or of a particularly interesting character.
		Or the founding texts of psychoanalysis may themselves be treated as literature, and re-read for the light cast by their formal qualities on their theoretical content (Freud's texts frequently resemble detective stories, or the archaeological narratives of which he was so fond).
	dks.thing.net /Hysterical_realism.html (884 words)

	LRG: Literary Criticism, Evelyn S. Field Library, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Literary criticism is the term applied to the reasoned study and analysis of a literary document.
		However, the main purpose of a critical essay is to articulate and attempt to corroborate your views on the work, not simply summarize the plot, reconstruct the author’s life or reiterate another critic’s comments.
		Literary theory often builds on past models and is complexly interwoven.
	library.raritanval.edu /SubjectGuides/literary_criticism.html (1144 words)

	Psychoanalytic literary criticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Psychoanalytic literary criticism is literary criticism which, in method, concept, theory or form, is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud.
		His sometime disciples and later readers, such as Carl Jung and later Jacques Lacan, were avid readers of literature as well, and used literary examples as illustrations of important concepts in their work (for instance, Lacan argued with Jacques Derrida over the interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter").
		The author cannot be reduced to a ratiocinating self: his own more or less traumatic biographical past, the cultural archetypes that have suffused his "soul" ironically contrast with the conscious self, The chiasmic relation between the two tales may be seen as a sane and safe acting out.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychoanalytic_literary_criticism (560 words)

	Psychoanalytic Criticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Psychoanalytic criticism adopts the methods of "reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts.
		It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses.
		One interesting facet of this approach is that it validates the importance of literature, as it is built on a literary key for the decoding.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/psycho.crit.html (287 words)

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		As popular and pervasive of any form of criticism "after" the New Criticism, Psychoanalytic Criticism emerged as a literary critical tool in the United States and Europe in the 1930s and 40s as Freud's theories of psychoanalysis were popularized.
		The same critical operations could be carried out to analyze individual characters represented in literary works, whether as reflections of the author's psyche or as figures whose psycho-social "history" could be read (a la New Criticism) in the text itself.
		The major drawbacks of Psychoanalytic Criticism may sound New Critical: first, it requires (especially in its later post-structuralist forms) an inordinate amount of theoretical knowledge in addition to a broad literary and historical repertoire, and second, it draws our attention away from what has been written (literature) to the writer and beyond.
	www.neiu.edu /~edepartm/dep/profs/scherm/html/psychcrit.htm (771 words)

	Journal of Religion and Society
		Although Alter and Kermode deliberately excluded various critical approaches including psychoanalytic criticism from that volume in their attempt "to make possible fuller readings of the text" (4-5), their work demonstrates the increasing validity literary approaches now enjoy in the field of Biblical Studies.
		Recently, like others in the field of literary criticism, many psychoanalytically inclined scholars have shifted the focus to the reader and away from the text or the author.
		From a psychoanalytic perspective then, the text provokes narcissistic anxieties in the reader, and the reception of the parable as an example story constitutes a resistance to the author's apparent intent that readers identify with the victim.
	moses.creighton.edu /JRS/2003/2003-1.html (5296 words)

	University of Cambridge: Faculty of English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		in Criticism and Culture, launched in October 2004, is an innovative nine-month course of literary study with an interdisciplinary and comparative focus, running from October until the end of June.
		You will be encouraged to develop a critical and methodological framework, and to pursue questions relating to literary and cultural production alongside your individual research project.
		Option A courses may be either conceptually or historically oriented, or both, but in any year will include a selection of topics such as: philosophy and poetry, Marxist literary criticism, theories of writing, performance culture, post-colonial writing, visual culture, psychoanalytic literary criticism, post-modern theory, literature and politics.
	www.english.cam.ac.uk /postgraduate/Criticism_Culture_MPhil_Info.htm (2379 words)

	VOX Submissions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The field of psychoanalytic criticism, perhaps because of its theoretical relationship to early childhood, has been a particularly blatant victim of this shortcoming of literary criticism.
		Psychoanalytic criticism is, as mentioned before, and extremely complex and diverse form of criticism.
		It remains the task of literary critics to recognize the importance of thorough critiquing of all children’s literature, especially from a psychoanalytic view, and to strive for a more than cursory examination of such literature.
	english3.fsu.edu /~lit/diersen.html (3699 words)

	Literary Criticism and Theory
		The databases are Contemporary Literary Criticism, Project Muse, World Shakespeare Bibliography, Biography Resource Center, MLA International Bibliography, and the Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature.
		After you have become familiar with the terms and concepts of literary criticism by reviewing the books and web guides you are now more prepared to start your research.
		To search for critical essays or journal articles on databases use subject headings or keywords with the terminology that is specific to the theory/criticism you are studying.
	www.lesley.edu /library/guides/research/litcrit.html (534 words)

	theories
		Unlike the narrative theorist and the academic literary critic, I do not focus on theory, indeed, I don't even try to define fundamental terms like story and narrative, or even draw a distinction between them.
		Consequently in in literary criticism circles where theory is revered, there is little talk about stories (as the focus is on how to interpret by way of theory).
		The study of theory is all maintaining a discipline called literary criticism, little about how any one of us (outside the discipline) might try to learn how stories work and how we might begin to work with them.
	myweb.wvnet.edu /~jelkins/lawyerslit/theories.htm (837 words)

	freudian literary criticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The New Critics concentrated on textural analysis, and declared biography to be irrelevant.
		Further than that, of course, he has an obligation to examine what psychoanalytical criticism is suggesting, about his work, and about his fundamental nature.
		Elizabeth Wright's Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice (1984), Chapter 17 of David Daiches's Critical Approaches to Literature (1982), and Chapter 3 of Wilfred Guerin at al.'s A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (1979).
	www.textetc.com /criticism/freudian-criticism.html (2208 words)

	Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
		A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text, e.g., with the biography or psychology of the author or the work's relationship to literary history.
		Psychoanalytic criticism may focus on the writer's psyche, the study of the creative process, the study of psychological types and principles present within works of literature, or the effects of literature upon its readers (Wellek and Warren, p.
		Both Lacan and his critics argue whether the real order represents the period before the imaginary order when a child is completely fulfilled--without need or lack, or if the real order follows the symbolic order and represents our "perennial lack" (because we cannot return to the state of wholeness that existed before language).
	www.kristisiegel.com /theory.htm (6076 words)

	Definitions of Feminist Literary Criticism
		From Jennifer: "The early feminist literary critics (in the 1960's and 70's) argued that men and women had different points of view about literature, and that what had been considered as neutral about literature was really the male point of view."
		So, here goes: Feminist literary criticism is about the search for a literature that women can call their own but without segregating it to an extreme which would result in separatism.
		Feminist literary criticism encompasses not only female literary works but also male literary works, leaving men to be held accountable for their portrayal of women as well as men in their literary works."
	hubcap.clemson.edu /~sparks/flc/flitcrit.html (480 words)

	In the timeless words of Joseph Addison: "A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the timeless words of Joseph Addison: "A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation
		In the famous words of Joseph Addison: "A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation." Indeed this has been the dominant philological inclination throughout the development of modern literary theory.
		Though the established academic circle is blindly content with its progress in the development of supposedly robust feminist theories of literature, female works have, in fact, been improperly interpreted for several centuries.
	www.takeoutweight.com /essay.htm (633 words)

	Psychoanalytic Criticism and Teaching Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		PSYCHOANALYTIC literary criticism focused on Shakespeare did not simply appear early in the development of psychoanalysis but participated in the origins of the movement.
		And of course, literary criticism itself is no longer under the sway of the New Critical notions of unity and synthesis that meshed so well with Holland's model of the psychologically integrated text.
		Psychoanalytic interest in Shakespeare, however, has not abated, as is clear from the updated 461-item bibliography of post-1966 work in the recent anthology Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays, edited by Murray Schwartz and Coppélia Kahn.
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/n087/087019.htm (2395 words)

	Psychoanalytic Criticism
		Freud devised these terms for his work on the unconscious and the dream process, but the terms also enter into discussions of the artist and her work, since many critics agree with Freud's opinion that the unconscious is the main site of the creative process, as well as the dream process.
		Elaborating on this opinion, some critics have wondered to what extent the creative process springs only from those thoughts in the unconscious which result from neurosis.
		The critic Frederick Karl notes that Conrad utilizes the jungle as a symbol not only of what we fear, but also of what we destroy (130-2).
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/english/courses/60A/psycho.html (1146 words)

	Rhizomes 11/12: Julia Shaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While current psychoanalytic and poststructuralist-inflected gay and lesbian perspectives on child sexuality now offer more complex notions of power and subjectivity, Rubin both predicted and helped make possible recent queer analyses of child sexuality by addressing intergenerational sex and the arbitrary boundary between adult sexuality and childhood innocence.
		Using exemplary essays from contemporary literary, queer, psychoanalytic, and cultural criticism, it traces the lines of divergence and convergence surrounding representations of children and sexuality.
		Kent’s essay alternates between autobiographical vignettes and critical analysis of lesbian identity formation in what she regards as the counterpublic sphere of Girl Scout camp.
	www.rhizomes.net /issue11/shaw.html (2618 words)

	Wikinfo \| Literary criticism
		Aristotle wrote the Poetics, a typology and description of literary forms with many specific criticisms of contemporary works, in the 4th century BC.
		Literary blogs fill a role which, except at the New York Times, is gradually being abandoned by many newspapers.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Book_review (865 words)

	UPNE - Dreams and Drama: Alan Roland
		In this bold new study, artist and psychoanalyst Alan Roland charts new pathways in psychoanalytic thinking about art and creativity.
		Considering the use of imagery and symbolic expression in dreams and art, Roland argues against the pervasive assumption in applied psychoanalysis which posits art as the artist’s daydream dressed in aesthetic clothes.
		Roland works against this reductive notion to show how both artistic and psychoanalytic endeavors are enriched when one considers the integration of primary and imaginative secondary processes of imagery and symbolization.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-8195-6600-4.html (209 words)

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