New criticism: Also called Formalism
Values technique, text above all else
Deconstruction: Affirms and deviates from New Criticism
Values Unity, like Donne's sonnet, The Flea but most especially Cleanth Brooks' The Well Wrought Urn
Coleridge's idea of satisfaction of parts
Frye fits here, as everything is partly rhetorical and hence literary.
Feminism: Reductive or expansive. Either examines the treatment of women to discard text or examines the systems of oppression at work to determine women's treatment ala bell hooks.
Reader response: Loves personal associations
Frost's Snowy Evening is both about Santa and about death
Cannot make a poem's meaning whatever you want, that's chaos
Psychoanalysis: Don't make fun of Freud too much, as he's given us a great deal of our modern vocabulary.
Tries to find the hidden truths, like looking through a glass darkly
Marxism: Dominant culture determines social truths
Also looks for hidden truths, especially class struggle
Fight Club is an example of each of the excellent pairs of glasses to use to examine a text/film.
Complaint v. criticism
Glenn Gould and Edith Grossman
Don Antonio's truth> The Enchanted Head
Don Quixote of the Stains, deconstruction of the name
Cave added years to life, periods of time dealt with in lit
Knight of the White Moon, Mirror> Knight of the Wood the bachelor Corasco
Of all literary critics, Frye puts on the most pairs of glasses
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