ENG ELC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Flashforward, Wage Labour, Black Comedy
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Renaissance: away from hermeneutic to secular texts: becoming modern, noone was a literary scholar but philosophists and men of church, most of the students wanted to become a lawyer/church man. Literary history history of production/reception of literature history of changing literary media/ techniques/genres (1. how,when, under what conditions work was produced 2. What indicates that this is piece of lit. history: historical novel arose at the beginning of 19th century (napoleons collapse) Literary theory theoretical reflections on the nature of literature and the methods of studying it (different branches: philosophy, politics, female properties, social/political impact of literature) Point of lit. theory: gives you a theoretical frame work/guidelines in which you can understand the text and what makes literature literature. It doesn"t melt or turn over, break or harden, so it can"t feel pain, yearning, regret. It doesn"t have a tip to spin on, it isn"t even shapely just a thick clutch of muscle, lopsided, mute.
