ENGL 302 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Simile, Hermeneutics, Anna O.

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 302
• Professor: Harry Vandervlist

Document Summary

Tries to explain the literary work to us (production, design, meaning, beauty) Tries to explain the assumptions and values upon which various forms of literary criticism rest. When we interpret a text we are doing literary criticism. When we examine the criteria upon which our interpretation rests we are doing critical theory. Literary criticism is the application of critical theory to a literary text. In the middle ages it emerged as a crucial branch of biblical studies. How to read turns into how do we communicate at all . Careful attention to the text in order to arrive at a true interpretation. But how do we know it is right? . An instructive imitation with its own rules, goals, and organization. Brings relief of strong emotions such as fear. Is the ancient art of argumentation and discourse. When we write or speak to convince others, we are rhetors . When we analyze the way rhetoric works, we are rhetoricians .