New Topic: Literature

A highly developed use of language in that is the stylized manipulation on language for larger effect (purpose) and/or  affect (emotional response)

Theories of Language that we saw at class.
(5th Century) The Greeks ---> They based their study on ontology and epistemology
(early 19th Century) Romanticism ---> Poetry as an expression. Common language and simple topics .
(mid 19th Century) Scientific Determinism ---> Science became the most popular aplication, even for literature
(early 20th Century) New Criticism ---> The text is the main focus of the literature
Reader- Response ---> Reader's personal experience might very well play a substantial role in enchancing an                                 encounter with a text. The reader is the most important.
Structuralism ---> Words were signs made up of two component parts: Signifier and Signified.










Poststructuralism ---> Chomsky's ideas. Negotating not what a sign is, but what a sign is not







Marxism ---> The root of the conflicts is anchored in social class and economic differences. All texts contain subtexts.

Feminism and gender studies ---> Uncoverinig essential differences between women and men. Explores sexual identity, question of reproduction, sexuality, gender, family, love & marriage.

Cultural Poetics ---> History as the body of language

Postcolonial Criticism ---> Analise of the texts produced in colonized countries.

Wrap up question (saw at class)
1.- I agree or support the postructuralism basicly because I understood very good Chomsky's ideas and the most difficult to understand was the feminism, because for me it's hard to understand why or how can someone state ideas based on which gender is stronger, sexuality and that stuff and relate it with literature.
2.- New Criticism, I'll make him remember just that the text is the most important.