ACCT 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: General Medical Services, New Historicism, Postcolonialism
15 Sep 2020
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Biographical criticism: direct link to the author, autobiographies: eugen o"neill"s play long day"s journey into night: fictional characters based on real people. Psychoanalytic literary criticism: psychological aspects not necessarily relating to the author. Sigmund freud"s influence: analysing characters as if they were real. Reception theory: 1960s reader-response/ aesthetics of reception, reader"s point of view why, when, and where is a text read, physiological aspect of reading process edgar allen poe"s the murderers in the rue. Morgue : reception theory: interaction between reader and text. Dividing literary phenomena into periods, analysing historical background. Marxist literary theory: text as expression of economic, sociological, and political factors, karl marx. Homi bhabha: ideas of post- structuralism and deconstruction for his theory of culture and cultural identity. Gender difference neglected -> re-examination from gender oriented perspective: early phase: portrayal of women in texts by male authors (stereotypes, next phase: canon revision: new standard texts by non-male authors.
