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Literary Theories - Coggle Diagram
Literary Theories
Race and Postcolonialism
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What is orientalism?
A form of stereotyping common in the West where everyone in the East is generally assumed to be "exotic" and different
Subaltern voice
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Always a hybrid position because it occupies a space between two cultures, the native and the conquering
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Both Feminist and Race criticism deal with socially constructed binaries/arbitrary ways of defining people
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Feminist Theories
What constructs gender?
Societies, language, "I'dentity," responsibilities
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Phallocentric
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Mostly significant in feminist theories, but a similar concept can be seen in Race and Postcolonialism theories in terms of a "patriarchal system language"
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Structuralism
What is it?
Structural analysists look at the units in a system and the rules to how they work both individually and together.
Analyzes the characters, plot, structure, signifiers, signified, signs, and the patters within along with their significance rather than the storyline details.
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Structuralism de-emphasized the importance of the reader's experience found in Humanism and focused on the structure of the text itself
Humanism
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Pitfalls & Usefulness
Some works are open to too much interpretation, but there could be one true meaning that is significant
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Allows people to relate to a variety of pieces and decide their preferences based on personal interpretation
Becomes, basically, the foundational theory for all others
Looks at literature for what it is, the differences from other pieces, and how it functions in cultures
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Psychoanalysis
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Polymorphously Perverse
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First stage of sexual development, people saw it as a time to "correct" children from going "astray"
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