DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Terry Eagleton, Overdetermination, Hermeneutics
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Properties of poetic language / literariness: transforms & intensifies ordinary language (deformation/defamiliarization) Made strange foregrounds language itself (foregrounding / estrangement: overdetermination -> caused by more than one factor, deviation of a norm, correspondence between form & meaning, relation between contrast & similarity. Terry eagleton: there is no essence, no nature of literature. Any writing may be read non- pragmatically / poetically -> perspective is important, everything can be literature. It is not an ontological (nature of things) but a functional term. Every sign is a product of differences. Canon (= refers to all text that are regarded to be important. "value" is a transitive term: it means whatever is valued by certain people in specific situations, according to particular criteria. Poem wants the reader to think/puzzle about the background idea (associations) Reader is a crucial factor in the construction of meaning / influences perspective of what is.
