EN200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Russian Formalism, Hyperbole, Chris Baldick
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The broadview anthology of poetry, 2nd edition, eds. Chris baldick, the oxford dictionary of literary terms, 3rd edition, oxford. Performative speech acts & constative speech arts (speech act theory) The separation of an intellectual of material whole into its constituent parts for individual study. The study of such constituent parts and their interrelationships in making up a whole. A spoken or written presentation of such study. Giving unusual prominence to one element or property of a text, relative to other less noticeable aspects. According to the theories of russian formalism, literary works are special by virtue of the fact that they foreground their own linguistic status, thus drawing attention to how they say something rather than to what they say. Oed: like prose, lacking poetic beauty unromantic ordinary commonplace. Uninterested language that doesn t (cid:272)ele(cid:271)rate expression or expand the range of spee(cid:272)h/ utteran(cid:272)e.
