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Critic
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Book
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Critical Approach
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Era
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Notes
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Plato
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Ion, Republic
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Aristotle
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Poetics
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Horace
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Art of Poetry
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Longinus
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On the Sublime
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5 sources of the sublime
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Dryden
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An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
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Neoclassicism
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Pope
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An Essay on Criticism
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Neoclassicism
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Samuel Johnson
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“The Rambler,” The Lives of the Poets
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Neoclassicism
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18th C.
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Wordsworth
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Preface to Literary Ballads
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Romanticism, Expressionist Criticism
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1798
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S.T.Coleridge
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Biographia Literaria
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Organic Unity
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Victor Hugo
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Preface to his drama Cromwell
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Walt Whitman
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Preface to Leaves of Grass
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American Romanticism
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Free Verse
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Nathaniel Hawthorn
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Preface to The house of Seven Gables
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distinction bet. realistic(proper) & romantic novel
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Taine
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Introduction to History of English Literature
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Historical- biographical Criticism
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"race, milieu et moment"
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William Hazlitt
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“On Genius & Common sense ”
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Impressionism
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19th C.
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Edgar Allen Poe
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“The Poetic Principle”
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Aestheticism, Theory of the Single Effect
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Late 19th C.
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“the supreme poem is a poem per se”
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Edgar Allen Poe
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“The Philosophy of Composition”
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Showed the parts of his “Raven” developed from the single effect he desired
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Henry James
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The Art of Fiction
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19th C.
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Collection of Prefaces to his novels
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I. A. Richards
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Principles of Literary Criticism
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Psychological Theory
Reader-response
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"appetency," "aversion," "systematization of impulses"
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T.S. Eliot
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“The Metaphysical Poets”
“Andrew Marvell”
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John Crowe Ransom
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The New Criticism
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Textual Criticism, Formalism Aestheticism
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1941
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Wimsatt & Beardsley
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The Verbal Icon
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New Criticism
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1946
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Affective & Intentional Fallacy
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Allen Tate
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“Tension in Poetry”
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New Criticism
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William Empson
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Seven Types of Ambiguity,
Some Versions of Pastoral
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New Criticism
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He defined the difficulty & flexible meaning of poetry in terms of its ambiguity. He gave currency to New Critical terms: irony, tention, etc.
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R. S. Leavis
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Revaluation, The Great Tradition
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New Criticism
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Oscar Cargill
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Towards a Pluralistic Criticism
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eclectic criticism
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20th C.
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R.S. Crane
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Critics & Criticism: Ancient & Modern
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Chicago School; Neo-Aristotilianism
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1940s
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Hirsch
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Validity in Interpretation
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Genre Criticism
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James Thorp
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Principles of Textual Criticism
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Textual Criticism
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Wayne Booth
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The Rhetoric of Fiction
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Rhetorical Criticism
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1961
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literature as a mode of communication from the author to the reader
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Edmund Husserl
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Phenomenology
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J. Hillis Miller
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Geneva School, Phenomenological Criticism
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1960s
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George Poulet
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“Phenomenology of Reading”
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Phenomenological Criticism
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Roman Ingarden
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The Literary Work of Art
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Phenomenological Criticism
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Sigmund Freud
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An Outline of Psychoanalysis
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Psychoanalysis
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Late 19th C.
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Ernest Jones
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Hamlet & Oedipus
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Psychoanalysis
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20th C.
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Harold Bloom
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Anxiety of Influence
Antithetical Criticism
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1970s
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to read any poem as its poet’s deliberate misinterpretation, as a poet, of a precursor poem of poetry in general
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Carl Marx
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Critique of Political Economy
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Marxism
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George Lukas
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The Historical Novel
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Marxism
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20th C.
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Louis Althusser
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Marxist Structuralism
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1940s
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Raymond Williams
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Cultural Materialism
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1980s
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Stephen Greenblatt
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning
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New Historicism
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1980s
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Louis Montrose
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New Historicism
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1980s
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"textuality of history & historicist of texts"
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Clifford Greetz
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New Historicism
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1980s
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thick description
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Northrop Frye
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Anatomy of Criticism, The Stubborn Structure
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Myth Criticism
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1930s-1940s
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Typological interpretation of the Bible, concept of imagination in Blake
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James G. Frazer
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The Golden Bough
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Archetypal Criticism
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a comparative study of the primitive origins of religion in magic, ritual and myth.
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Gilbert Murray
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“Hamlet & Orestes”
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Archetypal Criticism
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Sacrificial hero in Hamlet
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Francis Fergusson
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The Idea of Theatre
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Archetypal Criticism
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Hamlet follows some rituals as Sophocles’ Oedipus
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C. G. Jung
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The Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche, Psyche & Symbol, The Archetypes & the Collective Unconscious, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
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Archetypal Criticism
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Joseph Campbell
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The Mask of God
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Primitive Mythology
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Maud Baudkin
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Archetypal Patterns in Poetry
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Archetypal Criticism
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C.S. Peirce
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Semiotics
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Late 19th C. America
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icon, index, symbol
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Ferdinande de Saussure
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Course in General Linguistics
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Structuralism,
Semiology
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1915
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signifier, signified, langue, parole, synchronic
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Claud Levi-Strauss
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Structural Anthropology
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Structuralist Criticism in cultural anthropology
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1960s
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Jonathan Culler
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Structuralist Poetics
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Structuralism
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Ronald Barthes, Gerald Genette, Julia Kristeva, Tzvetan Todorov
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Semiotics, Intertextuality
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1960s
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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A Vindication of Rights of Women
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Feminism
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1792
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John Stuart Mill
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Subjection of Women
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Feminism
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19th C.
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Margaret Fuller
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Women in the Nineteen Century
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Feminism
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19th C.
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America
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Virginia Woolf
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A Room of One's Own
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Feminism
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20th C.
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England
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Simon de Beauvoir
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The Second Sex
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Feminism
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20th C.
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sex & gender,
"patriarchal'
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Elaine Showalter
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A Literature of Their Own
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Feminism
Gynocriticism
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Late 20th C.
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three phases of modern women literary development: feminine, feminist, female
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Judith Fetterley
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The Resisting Reader
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Feminism
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Late 20th C.
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Resisting the identification of female reader with images of women in works written by men
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Jacque Derrida
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Of Grammatology, Writing & Difference, Speech & Phenomena
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Deconstruction
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2oth C.
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binary oppositions
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Paul de Man
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Literary Deconstructor
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Barbara Johnson
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A World of Difference
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Literary Deconstructor
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applied deconstruction to the writings of critics
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Wolfgand Iser
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Reader- Response
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"implied reader," "actual reader"
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Staneley Fish
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Is There a Text in Class?
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Reader- Response
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1980
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affective stylistics
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