LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Plato’s The Republic
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T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
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Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology
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Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage____ ”
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Detailed explanation-1: -In his essay, Barthes argues against the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of an author’s identity to distill meaning from the author’s work. In this type of criticism against which he argues, the experiences and biases of the author serve as a definitive “explanation” of the text.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer. Explanation: In literary theory, formalism refers to critical approaches that analyze, interpret, or evaluate the inherent features of a text.
Detailed explanation-3: -For Derrida, ‘there is nothing outside of the text’. In the original French, Derrida wrote: ‘Il n’y a pas de hors-texte’ [There is no outside-text]. Language is a constant movement of differences and everything acquires the instability and ambiguity inherent in language (Callinicos 2004).
Detailed explanation-4: -Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or “audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work.