Literary criticism Literary criticism Address to Young Men on Greek Literature (alternatively, "Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature") is a text by Basil of Caesarea. Although Basil is best known for his religious writing by most people, in this work Basil encouraged the study of Greek texts, and reassured his readers that despite their pagan origin, they were quite compatible with orthodox Christian thought. ...more on Wikipedia about "Address to Young Men on Greek Literature"
Affective fallacy is a literary term used to assert that the meaning of a literary work is not dependent on its effects on the reader, especially referring to emotional effects. The term was coined by W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley as a principle of New Criticism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Affective fallacy"
Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton University Press, 1957) attempts to formulate an overall view of the scope, theory, principles, and techniques of literary criticism derived exclusively from literature. Frye consciously omits all specific and practical criticism, instead offering classically-inspired theories of modes, symbols, myths and genres, in what he termed "an interconnected group of suggestions," which informed a work that was highly influential in the decades before deconstructivist criticism and other expressions of postmodernism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anatomy of Criticism"
An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. This can be short or long, fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, technical or literature. In particular, the word is used to refer to a person doing it for pay (as a profession). ...more on Wikipedia about "Author"
In literary theory and aesthetics, authorial intentionality is a concept referring to an author's intent as it is encoded in his work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Authorial intentionality"
The book review (or book report) is a form of literary criticism carried out in periodicals, as school work, and now online. It may be in length from a single paragraph, up to a substantial essay. Book reviews are generally supposed to be evaluations of the book, if only on the basis of personal taste. Reviewers, in literary periodicals, often use the occasion of a book review for a display of learning or to promulgate their own ideas on the topic of a fiction or non-fiction work. At the other end of the spectrum, some book reviews resemble simple plot summaries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Book review"
Booklist is the digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist magazine that provides a critical review of books. ...more on Wikipedia about "Booklist" The Ultimate www.shortopedia.com Machine.
The Chicago school of literary criticism, also known as neo-Aristotelianism, was developed in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s at the University of Chicago. It is sometimes considered a type of formalism, but it is more often described as an opposing school of thought to new criticism. Whereas the "new critics" were heavily invested in form, and in what Aristotle calls diction, the Chicago school took a more holistic approach to literary analysis. They followed Aristotle's hierarchical list of the narrative elements. According to Aristotle and the Chicago school, the most important aspect of a work was plot, followed by character, thought, and then diction. Aristotle's last two aspects—melody and spectacle—are less important to the Chicago school. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chicago school (literary criticism)"
Children's literature criticism comprises both generalist discussions of the relationship between children's literature and literary theory as well as an literary analysis of a specific work or works of children's literature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Children's literature criticism"
Chorizontes ("separators"), the name given, to the Alexandrian critics who denied the single authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and held that the latter poem was the work of a later poet. The most important of them were the grammarians Xeno and Hellanicus; Aristarchus was their chief opponent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chorizontes"
In literary criticism, close reading describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. Such a reading places great emphasis on the particular over the general, paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read. ...more on Wikipedia about "Close reading"
Comparative literature (sometimes abbreviated Comp. lit.) is critical scholarship dealing with the literatures of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups. While most commonly practiced with works of different languages, it may also be performed on works of the same language if the works originate from different nations or cultures amongst which that language is spoken. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comparative literature"
The term deconstruction was coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in the 1960s and is used in contemporary humanities and social sciences to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ways that meaning is constructed and understood by writers, texts, and readers. One way of understanding the term is that it involves discovering, recognizing, and understanding the underlying — and unspoken and implicit — assumptions, ideas, and frameworks that form the basis for thought and belief. It has various shades of meaning in different areas of study and discussion, and is, by its very nature, difficult to define without depending on "un-deconstructed" concepts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deconstruction"
(Deconstruction/Draft) Deconstruction is a term in philosophy and literary criticism most closely associated with the work of Jacques Derrida, although the term does not originate in Derrida in a strict sense. Perhaps the two most formative influences on deconstruction are the work of Martin Heidegger and Sigmund Freud. Derrida's earliest work was a series of essays printed in the early 1960s which were collected into the book L'écriture and le difference (Writing and Difference), which appeared in 1967 with two monographs, De la grammatologie (Of Grammatology) and La voix and la phénomène (Speech and Phenomena). These works (in particular the essays "Force and Signification," "Cogito and the History of Madness," and " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences") included a major re-evaluation of the structuralist movement then dominant in French academe and may be considered poststructuralism avant la lettre. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deconstruction/Draft"
Dramatica is a theory of story developed by Melanie Anne Phillips and Chris Huntley in the early 1990s. It is also a computer program based on the theory and published by Write Brothers, Inc. (formerly Screenplay Systems Incorporated). ...more on Wikipedia about "Dramatica"
The academic discipline of English studies explores the production and analysis of texts produced in English (or in areas of the world in which English is a common mode of communication). Academic departments of English Studies often include scholars of literature, rhetoric, composition, literacy, film, English language, professional communication, folklore, cultural studies, creative writing, critical theory, disability studies, and digital media. ...more on Wikipedia about "English studies"
Germanistics is the field of humanities that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Common German names for the field are Germanistik, Deutsche Philologie, and Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft und Literaturwissenschaft. ...more on Wikipedia about "Germanistics"
A grand argument story is a type of story that is intended to be conceptually complete and to answer a core argument from both an emotionally and logically comprehensive perspective. The elements of a grand argument story should follow the argument and attempt to answer it. The term is a core concept of the Dramatica theory, created by Melanie Anne Phillips and Chris Huntley, which posits that every complete story is a model of the mind's holistic problem solving process (the "story mind"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Grand argument story"
Gynocriticism is the historical study of women writers as a distinct literary tradition. (Friedman 18) Elaine Showalter coined this term in her essay "Toward a Feminist Poetics." It refers to a criticism that constructs "a female framework for the analysis of women's literature, to develop new models based on the study of female experience, rather than to adapt male models and theories" (quoted by Groden and Kreiswurth from "Toward a Feminist Poetics," New Feminist Criticism , 131). The work of gynocriticsm has been criticized by recent feminists for being essentialist, following too closely along the lines of Sigmund Freud and New Criticism, and leaving out lesbians and women of color. (Literary Terms) ...more on Wikipedia about "Gynocriticism"
Hermeneutics may be described as the theory of interpretation and understanding of a text through empirical means. It should not be confused with the concrete practice of interpretation called exegesis. Exegesis extracts the meaning of a passage of text and enlarges upon it and explicates it with explanatory glosses; hermeneutics addresses the ways in which a reader may come to the broadest understanding of the creator of text and his relation to his audiences, both local and over time, within the constraints of culture and history. Thus it is a branch of philosophy concerned with human understanding and the interpretation of texts. Recently the concept of texts has been extended beyond written documents to include, for example, speech, performances, works of art, and even events. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hermeneutics"
In linguistics, the term heteroglossia describes the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single linguistic code. The term translates the Russian raznorechie (literally "different-speech-ness"), which was introduced by the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin in his 1934 paper Slovo v romane, published in English as "Discourse in the Novel." ...more on Wikipedia about "Heteroglossia"
Historical criticism is an approach to literature that uses history as a means of understanding a literary work more clearly. Such criticism moves beyond both the facts of an author's personal life and the text itself in order to examine the social and intellectual currents in which the author composed the work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Historical Criticism"
The Homeric Question is the debate of the identity of Homer, conducted since the late 18th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Homeric Question"
An imaginary antecedent is a premise known to be false, fictional, or unconditional. In a conditional statement, an imaginary antecedent may be the basis for any conclusion, true or false. ...more on Wikipedia about "Imaginary antecedent"
The implied author is a concept of literary criticism developed in the twentieth century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Implied author" shortopedia never sleeps. Literary_criticism
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