ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Literary Theory
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English 100 lecture: literary study as an academic discipline. Aspects of an academic discipline: terminology, central assumptions, basic theoretical approach, general methodology, taxonomy. Literature develops because writers go against an challenge terminology and standards. Criticism is not being critical and criticizing something seen as negative or finding fault/pulling to pieces. It is the overall term for studies concerned with defining, classifying, analyzing, interpreting and evaluating works of literature. Discipline or organized body of knowledge: investigates and explains, usese logical and rational argument, uses evidence from literary works to support general claims, specialized terminology. Theoretical criticism (literary theory) concens itself with discussion of particular works. Analytic: explains effects of work by reference to its subject organization, techniques and style. All writing; derived from latin -> all letters . English: literacy (in the medieval period: oed: humane learning, what separated us from animals.
