LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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History comprises the essential framework for the performance of literary analysis
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Politics and the economy are the most important factors in literary analysis
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Biography is essential to literary analysis
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He believes that narrative is not just a literary form or mode but an essential ‘epistemological category’; reality presents itself to the human mind only in the form of stories. We can only understand the world in terms of stories. Scientific, cultural and historical accounts are all created narratives.
Detailed explanation-2: -The political unconscious is a term coined by Neo-Marxist American thinker Fredric Jameson which holds that the cultural text is tied to an ideological-political “unconscious” which underlies it. This political hidden background expresses a class conflict which is expressed in the text in a complex manner.
Detailed explanation-3: -Texts such as Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” and Shakespeare’s seventy-third sonnet are examined in the context of Jameson’s three horizons of underlying interpretive frameworks–the political, the social, and the historical, each carefully explained.
Detailed explanation-4: -We’ve grouped them into four categories-author-focused, text-focused, reader-focused, and context-focused-each with its own central approach and central question about literary works and effective ways to understand them.