Friday, December 12, 2008

group presentations 1

NEW CRITICISM:
also known as formalism
values technique
text itself in the expense of everything else

DECONSTRUCTIONISTS:
no absolute meaning of the text
nothing outside of the text
counters unity (in structure, image, and tone)
"The Well-Wrought Urn" by Cleanth Brooks
no unified whole; everything is under construction.
Northrup Frye is a Deconstructionalist

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