key critical anthologies summary
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- critical anthologies
- marxist theory
- a theory of capitalism
- bourgeoise rule over proletariat
- Karl Marx (+followers) see international politics as an extension of class war at an international level
- capitalists exploiting the poor and are resorting to wars and imperialism for safeguarding their interests
- industrialisation means that the elite were the only ones who has access to means of production
- mass dependent on elite for survival
- elite needed lots of labour + low costs from mass
- mass needed to accept their position as powerless workers
- mass dependent on elite for survival
- mass needed to accept their position as powerless workers
- cannot trust the media as it's run by those in power who maintain the status quo rather than seek for change
- proletariat have to unite and revolt in order to overthrow the dominating class
- eventual replacement would be communism
- classless society so would be the final and permanent state of society
- eventual replacement would be communism
- a theory of capitalism
- narrative theory
- narrative- how you weave the story material (events, people, places) together and give it shape
- defined by Bordwell and Thompson as 'a chain of events in a cause-effect relationship occurring in time'
- makes it possible for you to analyse individual texts and find patters in them
- Tzvetan Todorov- Bulgarian literary theorist
- most narratives start with a state of equilibrium, protagonists happy, state of 'normal'
- normality disrupted by outside force (disequilibrium) fought against to maintain equilibrium
- new equilibrium established after protagonist resolves conflict
- narrative- how you weave the story material (events, people, places) together and give it shape
- feminist theory
- gender issues play an important part in everything, whether we are consciously aware of it or not
- ultimate goal to prompt gender equality
- biology determines our sex, culture determines our gender
- examples
- analyse gender of author and portrayal of female characters
- do female characters reinforce/ break stereotypes
- how is language used and is it 'gendered'
- nature of relationships between male and female characters
- social/ historical context for women at that time
- in every domain where patriarchy reigns, women are oppressed and seen as 'other'
- all of western civilisation is deeply rooted in patriarchal ideology (biblical portrayal of Eve as origin of sin in the world)
- eco-critical theory
- 'the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment' (Glotfelty xviii)
- human culture is connected to the physical world, humans affect and are affected by the natural world
- ecologically man is the ultimate villain
- post-colonial theory
- focuses on literature in previously or currently colonised countries
- observations of former colonies of Western powers and how they relate to and interact with the rest of the world
- critically investigates what happens when two cultures clash and one of them is ideologically fashioned as superior and assumes dominance over the other
- postcolonial critics reveal of colonisation is 'covered up', or even justified
- literary value and the canon
- the cannon is the collection of authoritative and exclusive great texts that are considered worthy of being read
- examples of English canon- Shakespeare,The Brontes, John Milton, Charles Dickens
- considered 'the greatest literature of all time' and the most influential in shaping Western culture
- literary texts in English have traditionally been valued in relation to the criteria set up in the canon
- marxist theory
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