A Historical Overview of Literary Criticism: From Hermeneutics to Reader-Response - Prof. , Apuntes de Literatura inglesa

¡Descarga A Historical Overview of Literary Criticism: From Hermeneutics to Reader-Response - Prof. y más Apuntes en PDF de Literatura inglesa solo en Docsity! What is the attitude.....opinion Walt Withman, Jhonny Cash, Malorie Blackman, mthe sleeping beauty “Literary theory” is the body of ideas and methods we use in the pratical reading of literature.. Author → Walt Disney Topic → BEHIND CHILDREN'S DREAMS Analysing → The principal Disney's movies Author → Erin Gruwell Topic → The gangs analysing → Freedom Writers diaries Chronology of literary Criticism 1800's → Hermeneutics In its most general sense, hermeneutics is the thoery of interpretation. Originally the term was limited to Biblical interpretation, but since the nineteenth century the term has been broadened to encompass interpretation of any text (literary, legal, ect.). The goal of hermeneutic theory work is to determine how best to discover the meaning of the text and many different hermeneutic theorists have proposed many different methodologies. In the early nineteenth century, German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher developed a theory which a later philosopher, Wilhelm Dilthy, named the Hermeneutic circle. The theory consisted of the idea that in order to understand the whole of a text, one must understand all of the constituent parts, but that in order to correctly interpret each of the constituent parts one has to be cognizant of the meaning of the whole. By continuously "filling in" the parts, and re-interpreting the whole, the reader comes to understand the text. In the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger shifted the concept of the hermeneutic circle to that of an open-ended discussion between each new reader and the history of interpretation surrounding the text. More recent theories divide the interpretation of texts into "hermeneutics of belief", which approaches text as containing truths to be illuminated and "hermeneutics of suspicion" - As practiced by Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx and Nietzsche - which approaches the text not so much to clarify it as to unmask its myths and contradictions. American Critic E.D. Hirsch argues that the meaning of the text is grounded in the intention of the author. The reader of a text can approach an objective interpretation of the author's expressed meaning, by progressively testing hypotheses of interpretation against what is known of the text. 1896 → Psychoanalytic Criticism Psychoanalytic Criticism is an approach to Literary Criticism influenced by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, that views a literary work as an expression of the unconscious -- of the individual psyche of its author or of the collective unconscious of a society or of the whole human race. 1900 → Semiology or Semiotics Semiotics is the study of the systems of rules and conventions which enable social and cultural phenomena (signs) . In literary theory semiotics is the analysis of text in terms of its use of language as dependent on and influenced by literary conventions and modes of discourse. The terms "semiotics" and "semiology" are used interchangeably. 1913 → Structuralism An approach of Literary Criticism which was developed from the concepts and methods of structural linguistics and structural anthropology that analyzes language and literature as structures. Structuralist critics are primarily interested not in what makes a text unique but what it has in