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Jonathan Culler's 1975 book Structuralist Poetics explores using linguistics to analyze literature by examining the conventions readers use to understand works. While it is impossible to establish rules governing writing, Culler argues conventions underlie readers' interpretations. His later books Pursuit of Signs and Framing the Sign develop this, examining how readers' underlying linguistic and cultural competencies inform their interpretations without considering ideology. Literary Theory introduces structuralism as studying unconscious structures in language, psyche and society, rather than seeking meaning or interpretation but how works can have the meanings they already have.
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Literary criticism involves analyzing literature through various theoretical lenses to interpret meaning and significance. The document discusses several major approaches to literary criticism including formalism, reader-response criticism, structuralism, biographical criticism, sociological criticism such as feminist and Marxist approaches, new historicism, psychoanalytic criticism, and mythological approaches. Each lens provides a different perspective for examining elements such as language, structure, context, reader experience, social forces, and psychological themes within a text.
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Reader response criticism focuses on the reader's role in interpreting texts rather than searching for a single inherent meaning. It holds that individual readers create their own meanings through personal transactions with the text based on their own experiences and backgrounds. Key aspects of reader response criticism include the horizons of expectations that readers bring, the implied reader envisioned by the author, and interpretive communities that readers belong to. However, some argue it fails to account for how texts can expand understanding and is too subjective.
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- 2. David Cullar Books: 1. Structuralist Poetics 1975 2. The pursuit of Signs 1981 3. Framing the Sign 1988 4. Literary Theory 1997
- 3. Overview of Structuralist Poetics: Took as his premise→ Linguistics for analysis of Literature Explores the “conventions” used by readers to understand Literature Impossible to establish rules that govern Writing Where is Structure? Underlies Readers’ interpretation
- 4. Overview of Pursuit of Signs 01 Reader → looks for Unity. so→ Uses Interpretive conventions + adds new Models of interpretation to text 02 In this book→ No Consideration of Readers’ Ideology on perception of meaning. 03 Uses Chomsky’s notion of ‘underlying Competence’ in the reader.
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- 7. Overview of Framing the Sign: In this book Culler explores roots of: Institutional & Educational basis for→ The Literary Competence
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