Monthly Archives for September 2013
But…and the text?
Whaouu, reading Fish is terribly convincing. Convincing because yes, the act of reading is an “action” performed by a real person, therefore, yes, we never read a text without interpretating it with who we are…that is to say, our brain, our past, our cultural background, our (distorted?) vision of what is literature. But terrible because […]
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The resurrection of the audience?
Reading the introduction aout “Rhetoric, Phenomenology and Reader Response”, I came along with a few questions, the first of which is the definition given there of “rhetoric” as “the formulation of language for readers”. Isn’t it a very large definition, when rhetoric seemed to me to be a “specific formulation of language” aiming at convincing […]
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L’ Auteur, un ou deux pieds dans la tombe?
Pour les francophones, voici un lien qui vous permettra de prolonger la réflexion sur la “mort de l’auteur”: http://litterature.ens-lyon.fr/litterature/dossiers/themes-genres-formes/la-figure-de-lauteur
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Literary Theory
In the past week I’ve been slowly reading through the first two parts of the literary theory, the brand new subject which I was totally unfamiliar with before. By going through the whole contents listed in front of the book, … Continue reading Continue reading
Formalisms
When doing this week’s reading what stood out to me the most is how different the two branches of Formalist are even though both look at what makes literature language different from ordinary language. The Russian formalists concentrate more in the scientific and rational approach to study literature. And the American New criticisms where interested […]
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An Application of Structuralist Principles in Poetry
As I (slowly) progressed through the readings for the week, I began to search for patterns in the articles, watching as the articles slowly built on one other, particularly through the ideas of “semiology” or the creation of ‘signs’ in language. This idea of interpreting signs through language, particularly through the lens of the basic […] Continue reading
Twentieth Century, Formalists and Tolstoy
First, I find quite interesting that most of the readings for this week were written at the beginning of the 20th century. I know during those days many different events took place in the world, but I just reckon that … Continue reading → Continue reading
Simida Sumandea 2013-09-10 09:50:00
Probably a pertinent question at the beginning of this class would be why utilize a method when reading a text, why know various technical approaches when a text should require simply a free style reading that trigers what Barthes calls “le plaisir d… Continue reading
Simida Sumandea 2013-09-10 09:50:00
Probably a pertinent question at the beginning of this class would be why utilize a method when reading a text, why know various technical approaches when a text should require simply a free style reading that trigers what Barthes calls “le plaisir d… Continue reading
First reflections
It has been very interesting to read about the Formalist approach to literature as ‘art’. The idea that literature is an art in its own right and merits its very own study I find appealing. I read about the defamiliarizing nature of literature I was reminded of the Dadaist approach to art which I have … Continue reading » Continue reading
