ENGL 153 Study Guide - Final Guide: Queer Theory, Consumerism, Ecocriticism

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 153
• Professor: George Grinnell

Document Summary

Reading strategies and key terms associated with critical approaches (1) formalist criticism. Are we meant to agree with the narrator or should we perhaps understand something the narrator does not know or cannot tell us: consider all formal elements of the text. Key terms: diction, form and content, genre, imagery, metaphor, medium, paraphrase, Point of view, theme, tone, unity of meaning (2) feminist criticism and feminism. Key terms: critique, gender, essentialism/anti-essentialism, femininity, misogyny, norms, Representations of women, power, patriarchy, sex, social roles, waves of. Different feminisms (1st, 2nd, 3rd) (3) reader response criticism. Key terms: audience, empowered reader, ideal reader / implied reader / actual reader, Transaction between reader and text (4) gender and sexuality studies. Key terms: femininity, gender, heterosexuality, heternormative, homosexuality, deviance, Identity, masculinity, nature, queer theory, power, representation, sex, Often, nature writing takes us to a very specific local location in order to explore it as a special place.