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Literary & Cultural Studies
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Literary & Cultural Studies
Theoretical Overview
- New Criticism
- Feminists/Gender/Queer
- Postcolonialism
- Cultural Studies
- Media Studies
- Ecocriticism
- Film Studies
- What is Literature/literary history
Practical Analysis
- Genre
- Classification of texts: Overlapping, Crossing, family members (Wittgenstein)
- Prototype semantics: eg bird/canary/sparrow...penguin, turkey (circle model)
- Etymology: gender, genus in english since 1770, in use since c 10000, first applied in ars grammatica (Diomeses)
- Listimg of genres: e.g. Quintilian (35-96 AD): epic, tragedy, Old Comedy, New Comedy, elegy, iambic, satire, lyric poetry
- Subgenres
- Drama
- Narrative
- Film
- Poetry
- Genre
Texts
- Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Roy:The good of small things
- Whitman: Leaves of Grass
- Jane Eyre
- Film: The Searchers
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- Mind Map on Literary & Cultural Studies, created by conleys83 on 13/08/2014.
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