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.Is still a real presence and probably will remain so for some time to come
Literary theory: Interpretive tool, that helps us to think more deeply insightfully in any
.literary text
Close Reading: Text is a self-contained and self-referential unit, we can get the meaning,
and the ideas how the text itself
Formalism: Russian school emerged in 1920, and 1930.This theories focus on the text
.itself, without caring about historical background
:(The biographical-historical)
Beginning of 20c.The history and the life of its author, is the text loyal to its history, and
.not related to literature
Authorian intention :
.The writer's goal and mean of his literary text
New Criticism school doesn't care about: The life and times of the author and the spirit of
the age, certainly they are not interested the literary historian, they think it can't provide
.any information to the literary work in analyzing the text itself
For example :We can't know or guess the author's intention of his work ,because
sometimes literary text doesn't live up to author's intention .Sometimes the critic discuss
. it more meaningful ,rich, and complex than the author realized
Intentional fallacy: new critics said that the author's intention is not the same (meaning)
.of text itself, related to the author
Readers' feelings or opinion about a text itself may be produced by some personal
association from past experience rather that by the text
Effective fallacy: The refuses of the text and its effect on its readers ,related to the object
itself
The literary language: is very different from scientific language and from everyday
language, depends connotation: on the implication, association, suggestion, and evocation of
.meanings and shades of meaning
.It's expressive: it communications tone, attitude, and feeling
It organizes linguistic recourses into a special arrangement, a complex unity, to create an
.aesthetic experience, a world of its own
Organic unity: New criticism judged the quality of a literary work ,if a text has an organic
unity, then all of its formal elements work together to establish its theme, or the meaning of the
.work as a whole
Close reading: The scrupulous examination of the complex relationship between a text's
formal elements and its theme, and it's how the text's organic unity was established by the New
.Critic
According to the new criticism school, they try to defense two terms to prove that they're
object, which called Objective criticism
• Intrinsic criticism :To donate that New Criticism stayed within the
confidence of the text itself
• Extrinsic criticism: It goes outside the literary text for the tools needed
to interpret it.
New critics have a single, objective meaning. The best reading of a literary work by
establishing, that all former readings were in some way inadequate to understand the
text's theme.
Marxism
For Marxism, getting and keeping economic power is the motive behind all social and
political activities, they can't ignore economic life, the class of any author is very
.important to them, so they build society under economic elements
Economic status: The material and historical background of the author decide the theme
and implied meaning of the text, so the main concern and Marxism school is the author
.life
.The superstructure of social ideological realities: Philosophy, arts, religion, and media
.The superstructure of social ideological realities: Government
.MARXISM TODAY REFERS TO SOCIOECONOMIC CLASS
They gathered in the group text as a group because they have one suffering, same
.problem, regardless the differences