scholarly journals NEW MATERIALISM: PROJECTIONS INTO LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-159
Author(s):  
Mariya Shymchyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
Theory And Criticism ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Literary Theory And Criticism

The article considers the recent (re)turn to materiality in philosophy and theory, in particular, such schools as speculative realism and object-oriented philosophy. They offer rethinking of objects and criticism of anthropocentric worldview. The attention to materiality privileges matter, body, and nature. Theorists of New materialism reject the binary oppositions (nature/culture, human/nonhuman, etc.) and insist on intra-action as a new materialist orientation. The author argues that the new materialist critique of conventional critique will be useful for literary theory and criticism. According to Latour, critique should be productive and collaborative. As far as critical judgments rely on thelogic of representation that in its turn is based on similarity, analogy and opposition they restrict the analytic enterprise. Moreover, it is necessary to rethink conventional practices of interpretation and explanation. In this context, K. Barad proposes to substitute these strategies with the practice of ‘diffraction’. In the second part of the article, the author analyzes Graham Harman’s article The Well-Wrought Broken Hammer:Object-Oriented Literary Criticism. We pay attention to Harman’s critique of New Criticism, New Historicism, and Deconstruction in their contrast to object-oriented philosophy. In his analysis of New Criticism, Harman figures out the taxonomic fallacy within this theory. He argues against the idea that only poetry has all the non-prose sense while other disciplines have the literal sense. His second argument against New Criticism problematizes the unity of all the elementsin a literary work. Harman outlines the assumptions of New Historicism and points out that it turns everything into interrelated influences. Instead, he argues that contextuality is not universal. In his criticism of Deconstruction Harman underlines that Derrida wrongly believes that ontological realism automatically entails an epistemological realism. In his turn, Harman insists that the thing is deeper than its interactions are.

scholarly journals Introduction

Poetics Today ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Blevins ◽  
Daniel Williams
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Formal Logic ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
Philosophy Of Literature ◽  
Theory And Criticism ◽  
Reciprocal Influences ◽  
Literary Theory And Criticism

Although literature and logic share a number of surprising symmetries and historical contacts, they have typically been seen to occupy separate disciplinary spheres. Declaring a subfield in literary studies — logic and literature — this introduction outlines various connections between literary formalism and formal logic. It surveys historical interactions and reciprocal influences between literary and logical writers from antiquity through the twentieth century, and it examines how literary theory and criticism have been institutionally shadowed by a logical unconscious, from the New Criticism and (post)structuralism to recent debates about historicism and formalism. It further considers how the subfield of logic and literature, in its constitutive attention to form, is neatly positioned to cut across these debates, and it sketches ways of reading at the interface of aesthetics, philosophy of literature, and literary studies that might be energized by an appeal to logical contexts, ideas, and methods.

scholarly journals Topos og motiv. Et forskningshistorisk rids

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (123) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Christian Dahl
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Classical Rhetoric ◽  
Critical Term ◽  
Theory And Criticism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Theory And Criticism

The aim of this article is to clarify how literary topology relates historically and conceptually to the study of literary motifs. Topos and motif are associated concepts in literary theory, but attempts to define and compare them are evasive and few. While literary topology was, according to Ernst Robert Curtius, founded on the basis of classical rhetoric and concerned primarily the literary tradition of rhetorical eloquence, the notion of motif was, as I will argue, on the contrary conceived as a critical term at a time when rhetoric was loosing its grip on literary criticism at the end of the 18th century. My article will survey a number of influential positions in the history of literary theory and criticism concerning the study of motifs and topoi from Goethe to contemporary contextualist approaches.

scholarly journals Investigating Literary Terminologies to Accomplish Literary Research and Enjoyment: A Corpus Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Agista Nidya Wardani ◽  
Adityo Adityo
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Data Selection ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Theory And Criticism ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Literary Movements

In relation to producing, enjoying, and especially criticizing literature, some literary terminologies are used frequently.  Thus, corpus in the field of Literature is urgently needed to compile. This study aims to compile literary terminologies found in Literature and Language Teaching by Gillian Lazar and Literary Movements for Students by Ira Mark Milne books. In addition, it also tries to find the frequency, meaning (in context), and examples of the use of the terminologies. The method used in this research was document analysis, the data of which was obtained from predetermined documents, such as books of general literature, and books of theory and literary criticism. While the stages carried out were data collection, data selection, and presentation. From the books studied, it is found that the terminologies that appear could be categorized into terminologies related to (1) authors, (2) readers of literary works, (3) literary work itself, and (4) literary theory and criticism. Additionally, there is an interesting fact from the data found that the books have different frequencies of literary terminologies. The terminologies that appeared in Literary Movements for Students are more frequent.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Alastair Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
Family Resemblances ◽  
Modern Novels ◽  
Sister Arts

This introductory chapter provides a brief background of three schools of literary criticism: New Criticism, structuralism, and deconstruction. These three schools exposed serious concerns, emphasizing neglected aspects of literature. The chapters in this book focus on genre, realism, and relations with visual art. Concepts of genre figure in any sound literary theory. Meanwhile, chapters on realism demonstrate how the development of representation, far from being one of steadily improving verisimilitude, has gone through several distinct sorts of realism. They distinguish medieval and Renaissance realisms from the realism of pre-modern novels. Finally, chapters on visual art consider how conventions of visual art offer essential parallels with those of literature. The ‘sister arts’ display many family resemblances—obviously so in imagery, less obviously in their strategies of realism. The essays also look at emblems and emblematic poems.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document