ENG280H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marcel Duchamp, Karen Solie, Surrealism
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What is a critical approach : theoretical/analytical framework that acts as a lens for us to critically interpret text. Defamiliarization/ enstrangement = making strange: taking something that is familiar and making it unfamiliar, term authored by russian writer viktor shklovsky. What is literature? (con"t: problem of meaning is perhaps only stable aspect of what literature is. Literature is the noise of culture as well as its information. It is an entropic force as well as cultural capital. It is a writing that calls for a reading and engages readers in problems of meaning - jonathan culler. What is literary theory : body of works used to analyze literature, making sense of ambiguity and making ambiguous what is common sense. Literature is our psychological responses to the world making theory meta- critical. Theory is anti-tradition: theory tries to deconstruct what is presented as common-sense meaning.
