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	Literary criticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.
		Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals.
		Early in the century the school of criticism known as Russian Formalism, and slightly later the New Criticism in Britain and America, came to dominate the study and discussion of literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Literary_criticism (952 words)

	Literary Theory [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		It is literary theory that formulates the relationship between author and work; literary theory develops the significance of race, class, and gender for literary study, both from the standpoint of the biography of the author and an analysis of their thematic presence within texts.
		The structure of ideas that enables criticism of a literary work may or may not be acknowledged by the critic, and the status of literary theory within the academic discipline of literary studies continues to evolve.
		Literary theory and the formal practice of literary interpretation runs a parallel but less well known course with the history of philosophy and is evident in the historical record at least as far back as Plato.
	www.iep.utm.edu /l/literary.htm (4789 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Literary criticism
		Academic literary critics teach in literature departments and publish in academic journals, and more popular critics publish their criticism in broadly circulating periodicals such as the New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, The Nation, and The New Yorker.
		The literary criticism of the Renaissance developed classical ideas of unity of form and content into a literary neoclassicism which proclaimed literature to be central to culture and entrusted the poet or author with the preservation of a long literary tradition.
		Some critics work largely with theoretical texts, while others read traditional literature; interest in the literary canon is still great, but many critics are also interested in minority and women's literatures, while some critics influenced by cultural studies read popular texts like comic books or pulp/genre fiction.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Literary_criticism (956 words)

	Eco, Umberto Criticism and Essays
		At once a detective story and a semiotic novel of ideas, the narrative recreates a detailed account of medieval life, politics, and thought as it traces the murders of several monks in attendance at an ecclesiastical council at a Benedictine abbey in northern Italy in 1327.
		Some critics disdained Eco's highly allusive style, describing it as laborious, encyclopedic, and inappropriate in a novel, yet others were intrigued by the tone of his metaphysical enquiry, favorably comparing it to the humor of Rabelais', Jonathan Swift's, and Voltaire's satires.
		Literary scholars in the United States have consistently remarked on the diversity of Eco's allusions and the range of his themes in his theoretical writings, identifying methods and applying his paradigms to a broad spectrum of texts.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/eco-umberto (1406 words)

	semiotics - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		semiotics or semiology, discipline deriving from the American logician C. Peirce and the French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
		This linguistic model has influenced recent literary criticism, leading away from the study of an author's biography or a work's social setting and toward the internal structure of the text itself (see structuralism).
		Semiotics is not limited to linguistics, however, since virtually anything (e.g., gesture, clothing, toys) can function as a sign.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-semiotic.html (414 words)

	Semiotic literary criticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics.
		Semiotics, tied closely to the structuralism pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, was extremely influential in the development of literary theory out of the formalist approaches of the early twentieth century.
		These critics were concerned with a formal analysis of narrative forms which would resemble a literary mathematics, or at least a literary syntax, as far as possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semiotic_literary_criticism (425 words)

	Mise-en-scene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Marxist critics argue that post-modernism is symptomatic of "late capitalism" and the decline of institutions, particularly the nation-state.
		critical theorists, that is the common point of attack for critics of postmodernism.
		The critics charge that the postmodern vision of a tolerant, pluralist society in which every political ideology is perceived to be as valid, or as redundant, as the other; may ultimately encourage individuals to lead lives of a rather disastrous apathetic quietism.
	dks.thing.net /Mise-en-scene.html (6821 words)

	Semiotics and Cultural Criticism by Arthur Berger
		Semiotics is associated with the work of the Americon philosopher, C S Peirce (although its roots are in medieval philosophy) and semiology with the work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
		Because semiotics is concerned with everything that can be seen as a sign, and given that just about everything can be seen as a sign (that is, substituting for something else), semiotics emerges as a kind of master science that has utility in all areas of knowledge, especially in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
		In literary criticism, for example, we often find that the study of symbolism in texts is connected with an investigation of their mythic elements-what might be called a myth and symbol school of analysis.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~engl5vr/Berger.html (5284 words)

	The State of Literary Criticism
		Onto this semiotic analysis, Balzac's story was stuck as an appendix, in smaller print, almost as an afterthought, overwhelmed by the critic's sovereign theories.
		Such literary works as are studied are treated not as literature offering its own rewards and lessons but as illustrations of the ideas and values being taught.
		During this shift in literary studies, those among us who are not primarily drawn to an "ism" or to special "studies" or to a theory began to feel left out, even beleaguered.
	www.mrbauld.com /Shatuck1.html (2578 words)

	Introduction
		Literary criticism can accept the proposal and redefine its goal: to work out the details of a general architecture of the mind supplied by cognitive science in the specific case of the production and interpretation of literary texts.
		In other words, a literary critic unsatisfied by the cognitive scientist's treatment of the literary may take cognitive science's explanatory inadequacy in literary matters as an indication of problems that are or will be afflicting cognitive science on its own home ground.
		Literary theory, on the other hand, envisions something similar, but inverted in form: if what literature is will forever escape scientific reduction, then science (cognitive science, in particular) will always be in an ancillary position with respect to literary theory.
	www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/4-1/text/gaps.html (1785 words)

	Semiotics
		The Impact on Philosophy of Semiotics: The Quasi-Error of the External World With a Dialogue Between a 'Semiotist' and a 'Realist by John N. Deely (St. Augistine’s Press) is a reformulation of philosophy within the light of semiotics as well as a realist critique of semiotic practice.
		Media Semiotics: An Introduction by Jonathan Bignell (Manchester University Press) is a lucid investigation of the critical approach in contemporary media studies.
		The "object" of semiotic cosmology is broader in scope than the worlds of energy and matter, and includes anything that is an order in any respect whatsoever, whether discriminated by human sign users or not.
	www.wordtrade.com /philosophy/semiotics.htm (2783 words)

	Semiotics and New Historicism
		If semiotics and New Historicism are concerned with the process of the transmission of meaning through signs and symbols, then they must acknowledge that a great deal of this transmission takes place unconsciously.
		She anticipates a theory of semiotics that "focuses on the nature of poetic language and the stucturalist notion of the sign, while also including the extralinguistic factors of history and psychology" (Davis and Schleifer 273).
		A structuralist semiotics would be limited to an interpretation of Tamburlaine as signifying the values of the amoral conqueror.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/semiotics.htm (678 words)

	What Are Things Coming To? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Criticism was a modest and judicious activity serving literature and its readers.
		Perhaps criticism seems a confused and confusing domain as soon as one gives it serious attention; perhaps it seems orderly only when it is taken for granted or when it has receded into the past.
		Criticism goes with crisis, itself generates a rhetoric of crisis, insofar as it calls one to rethink the canon and to reflect on the order of a culture's discourses and the relations among them.
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/N080/080008.htm (1562 words)

	the difficulties of interdisciplinarity: cognitive science, rhetoric, and time-bound knowledge
		I believe that the great changes not only in literary studies but in many of the other traditional disciplines that have occurred in the last decades in large part call for establishing "bridges," rethinking disciplinary borders, and discovering modes of collaboration among people whose "meanings" and "processes" (key terms in Simon's essay) are very different.
		Semiotics, unlike story grammars, systematically pursues the analyses of meaning beyond the confines of sentences, and like cognitive science it assumes the canons of scientific truth that Simon claims for "expository prose": correspondence to empirical evidence ("veridicality"), generalizing self-consistency ("clarity, absence of ambiguity"), and simplicity.
		Contemporary literary studies, among other things, is calling these Enlightenment concepts and methods into question, not simply to reject them-they all do important work and can be understood, in particular contexts, in terms of precise operational definitions.
	www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/4-1/text/schleifer.commentary.html (986 words)

	With Reference to Reference
		Much space is, however, allotted to a careful and critical explanation of Saussure's "resistance" to reference, his tireless efforts to establish that language is not a nomenclature, that words do not name objects or concepts, and that meaning results from the oppositions and relations between the terms of the linguistic system.
		While certain contributors are concerned with constructing a comprehensive theory of literary reference, and others provide analyses of the modes of referring in specific literary texts, the remaining critics focus on the metatextual level of reference as it functions in the discourse of literary criticism.
		Literary reference is thus at once a textual, co-textual, and contextual activity, due to the various passages between the two attitudes of reading.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/srb/reference.html (5516 words)

	Borges - Criticism: Contextual Criticism
		Topics treated include the semiotic flows of paradox and contradiction, the patterns of infinities, the limits of natural and mathematical languages, and the narrative function in scientific theory.
		It explores the Argentine author’s literary origins under the tutelage of the avant-garde, his earliest publications in Spanish journals, and his decisive role in the Ultraist movement, whose ideas shaped his early career and channelled his subsequent literary development.
		Partly as a consequence of Borges’ international identity, and partly because of a long-standing view in Borges criticism that his writing is principally concerned with abstract ideas, critics have been reluctant to address the question of politics in his writing.
	www.themodernword.com /Borges/borges_crit_context.html (1028 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.
		New Criticism proposed that a work of literary art should be regarded as autonomous, and so should not be judged by reference to considerations beyond itself.
		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)

	English 495: Marxist Cultural Theory
		Calling for a radical rethinking of literary studies-- "the self-abolition of poetics and its transformation into a general rhetoric" (235) Frow redefines formalism as a sort of refined, highly specific branch of discourse theory capable of analyzing the particular complexity of literary texts.
		In its initial break with traditional historiography and New Criticism, this scholarship has been characterized by an interest in the socio-political contexts of literature, by an awareness of the problematic nature of historical contexts, and by a rethinking of the traditional, positivistic assumption that literary texts merely reflect their historical contexts.
		In my practice, ideology critique means subjecting texts actively asserts the critic's radical, contestatory position (1) against traditional "sedimented" interpretations of the text in order to resist the pull of critical orthodoxy and institutional hegemony, and (2) against the dominant ideology of the social formation in which the text was produced.
	www.english.ilstu.edu /strickland/495/ideology.html (4663 words)

	background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Structural Literary Criticism follows the notion that theory is concerned with static, synchronic systems of meaning and not diachronic historical ones.
		In American literary criticism, structuralism was a challenge to the dominant New Criticism which presupposed the autonomy of the text and the objectivity of its structure.
		Issues in interpretation and literary quality are relegated into the domain of surface phenomena, which is not in the interest of structuralism (Selden 209).
	athena.english.vt.edu /~cbala/hausman/haus/background (321 words)

	FRE 777 -- Socio-Cultural Semiotics, Syllabus, Stivale -- Winter 1996
		This seminar, as part of the Ph.D. minor in cultural studies and literary analysis, is intended to provide participants with a broad understanding of different links between social sign systems and their study as part of literary and academic culture in North America in the 1990s.
		One facet of this course may perhaps strike readers of the accompanying course program as odd, that we will not be focusing on specific literary texts as such, but rather on writings -about- literary texts -and- on writings that discuss the profession of writing-about-literary-texts.
		Let me be clear: I do not wish to denigrate in any way the importance of engaging with primary, literary texts as well as with primary, literary critical sources that address these texts.
	www.langlab.wayne.edu /CStivale/Courses/FRE777/GeneralSyllabus.html (392 words)

	ALA \| Internet Resources: Literary Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Literary theories change with time and as new theoretical approaches emerge, the Internet can serve as an excellent means of keeping abreast with the field of literary study.
		Literary theory is an interdisciplinary field that includes several broad areas, among them anthropology, art, philosophy, psychology, history, and linguistics, and the included sites reflect this wide scope.
		A collection of issues developed for instructors interested in integrating postmodernism themes into their teaching, this guide provides basic information on the literary canon debate, implications of teaching poststruc-turalism and deconstructive theory in the English classroom, and literary theory from the perspective of the writer, reader, and filmmaker.
	www.ala.org /ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2002/march/literarytheory.htm (1863 words)

	Comparative Literature Research Guide
		Critical Inquiry: "critical exchange and scholarly debate in all areas of the arts and humanities....aimed at the general reader interested in contemporary cultural issues." (U. of Chicago)
		Modern Fiction Studies: "Devoted to criticism and scholarship of fiction of the twentieth century," this journal contains "essays in cultural criticism," as well as "articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary literature" and book reviews.
		Comparative Criticism: "an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies" containing "major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates." (Cambridge University Press)
	www.library.yale.edu /rsc/complit/journals.html (793 words)

	Italian
		Emphasis will also be placed on the central concerns and history of textual criticism, and the different types of critical editions.
		engendered by the meeting of the two media when one or more literary texts become a source for a cinematic text, and/or one or more cinematic text becomes a source for a literary text; d.
		It will start by looking at the research evidence on the origin of verbal and nonverbal sign and communication systems, discussing critically the main theories to explain semiosis and communication in the human species, from those of the Ancients to the most contemporary.
	www.utoronto.ca /semiotics/html/italian.html (517 words)

	Lit Crit & Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Psychoanalytical critics interpret a literary work à la Freud, that is, in terms of unconscious fantasies and desires, fixations and complexes, displacement and repression.
		Freud's own relevance to "critical theory" was revived by Jacques Lacan's poststructuralist revision of psychoanalysis, in which the "self" (or ego)--trapped in the Symbolic of language--is forever fraught with a "gap" or incompleteness that is always striving--and failing--to (re-)achieve a wholeness with the original (and "Imaginary") state of unity perceived by the infant.
		For instance, the socio-political critic with a Marxist bent might reject as worthless any literary classic--Homer's Iliad, for example--that implicitly accepts the framework of a class-based society--even though Homer was unable to be instructed in the wonders of Marxist dialectic before he wrote his 9th c.
	www.usd.edu /~tgannon/crit.html (4965 words)

	The Bible, Literature, and Literary Criticism, UM Libraries
		Wilder, Amos N. The Bible and the Literary Critic.
		Wilder's essays show a number of the issues and conflicts concerning the meaning and methods of using literary criticism in relation to the Bible.
		Although the literary critic tends to focus on a text-centered approach, the scholar approaching the Bible often finds the need to examine the text in relation to the author, the world, and the reader.
	www.lib.umd.edu /MCK/GUIDES/bible.html (2346 words)

	P_I
		Dripping with themes of surrealism and semiotics, he takes the reader on a cultural and intellectual journey through the ‘70s and ‘80s.
		He studied with Claude Lévi-Strauss, who encouraged Bouissac in his interest in the semiotics and social anthropology of the circus.
		Riggins has a remarkable talent for evoking vivid scenes of domestic life, private conversations in cafés, quirky encounters on the street, and bizarre public spectacles while endowing them with broader historical significance and providing them with an almost allegorical meaning.
	www.semioticon.com /Stephen_site/Time.html (1452 words)

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