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43 relations: Affective fallacy, Allen Tate, Ambiguity, American literature, Authorial intent, Characterization, Cleanth Brooks, Close reading, Deconstruction, Formalism (literature), Hamlet and His Problems, I. A. Richards, Irony, John Crowe Ransom, Literary criticism, Literary theory, Metaphysical poets, Monroe Beardsley, New Historicism, Objective correlative, Paradox, Plot (narrative), Poetry, Post-structuralism, Reader-response criticism, René Wellek, Rhyme, Robert Penn Warren, Setting (narrative), Snark (Lewis Carroll), Southern Agrarians, Stanley Fish, Structuralism, Suspense, T. S. Eliot, The Well Wrought Urn, Theme (narrative), Tradition and the Individual Talent, Trinity College (Connecticut), University of Cambridge, Vanderbilt University, Virginia Quarterly Review, William K. Wimsatt.
Affective fallacy
Affective fallacy is a term from literary criticism used to refer to the supposed error of judging or evaluating a text on the basis of its emotional effects on a reader.
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Allen Tate
John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979), known professionally as Allen Tate, was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate from 1943 to 1944.
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Ambiguity
Ambiguity is a type of meaning in which several interpretations are plausible.
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American literature
American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States).
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Authorial intent
In literary theory and aesthetics, authorial intent refers to an author's intent as it is encoded in his or her work.
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Characterization
Characterization or characterisation is the representation of persons (or other beings or creatures) in narrative and dramatic works of art.
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Cleanth Brooks
Cleanth Brooks (October 16, 1906 – May 10, 1994) was an American literary critic and professor.
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Close reading
In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text.
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Deconstruction
Deconstruction is a critique of the relationship between text and meaning originated by the philosopher Jacques Derrida.
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Formalism (literature)
Formalism is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text.
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Hamlet and His Problems
Hamlet and His Problems is an essay written by T.S. Eliot in 1919 that offers a critical reading of ''Hamlet''.
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I. A. Richards
Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, and rhetorician whose work contributed to the foundations of the New Criticism, a formalist movement in literary theory, which emphasized the close reading of a literary text, especially poetry, in an effort to discover how a work of literature functions as a self-contained, self-referential æsthetic object.
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Irony
Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.
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John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor.
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Literary criticism
Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.
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Literary theory
Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature.
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Metaphysical poets
The term metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse.
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Monroe Beardsley
Monroe Curtis Beardsley (December 10, 1915 – September 18, 1985) was an American philosopher of art.
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New Historicism
New Historicism is a form of literary theory whose goal is to understand intellectual history through literature, and literature through its cultural context, which follows the 1950s field of history of ideas and refers to itself as a form of "Cultural Poetics".
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Objective correlative
An objective correlative is a literary term referring to an objective as well symbolic article used to correlate explicit, rather than implicit, access to traditionally inexplicable concepts such as emotion or color.
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Paradox
A paradox is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.
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Plot (narrative)
Plot refers to the sequence of events inside a story which affect other events through the principle of cause and effect.
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Poetry
Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
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Post-structuralism
Post-structuralism is associated with the works of a series of mid-20th-century French, continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to be known internationally in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Reader-response criticism
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.
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René Wellek
René Wellek (August 22, 1903 – November 11, 1995) was a Czech-American comparative literary critic.
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Rhyme
A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs.
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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.
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Setting (narrative)
The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction.
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Snark (Lewis Carroll)
The snark is a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark.
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Southern Agrarians
The Southern Agrarians (also the Twelve Southerners, the Vanderbilt Agrarians, the Nashville Agrarians, the Tennessee Agrarians, and the Fugitive Agrarians) were a group of twelve American writers, poets, essayists, and novelists, all with roots in the Southern United States, who united to write a pro–Southern agrarian manifesto, published as the essay collection I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (1930).
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Stanley Fish
Stanley Eugene Fish (born April 19, 1938) is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual.
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Structuralism
In sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, structuralism is the methodology that implies elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure.
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Suspense
Suspense is a feeling of fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, tension, and anxiety developed from an unpredictable, mysterious, and rousing source of entertainment.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
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The Well Wrought Urn
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks.
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Theme (narrative)
In contemporary literary studies, a theme is the central topic a text treats.
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Tradition and the Individual Talent
"Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) is an essay written by poet and literary critic T. S. Eliot.
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Trinity College (Connecticut)
Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
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Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Virginia Quarterly Review
The Virginia Quarterly Review is a literary magazine in the United States.
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William K. Wimsatt
William Kurtz Wimsatt Jr. (November 17, 1907 – December 17, 1975) was an American professor of English, literary theorist, and critic.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Criticism
