| écriture (Subject heading)Theories: Media Theory, Deconstruction |
| écriture féminine (Subject heading)Theories: Feminism, Gender Studies |
| Adorno, Theodor W. (Subject heading)Theories: Critical Theory |
| aesthetic experience (Subject heading)Theories: Analytic Literary Theory and Aesthetics, Reception Theory / Reception Aesthetics |
| affective fallacy (Subject heading)A notion introduced by William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley in their essay “The affective fallacy� (first published 1949). It refers to a claim about the meaning as well as the value of literary works of art: literary works should neither be evaluated nor interpreted with regard to the subjective responses they elicit from readers, as a discussion of a literary work’s subjective effects is not a discussion of that work itself. Accordingly, Wimsatt and Beardsley claim that committing the affective fallacy amounts to mistaking a work for its subjective effects. In conjunction with the notion of the intentional fallacy the notion of the affective fallacy backs one of the central tenets of New Criticism: the claim that literay works should always be evaluated and interpreted as autonomous (cf. autonomy) aesthetic objects.Theories: New Criticism |
| Althusser, Louis (Subject heading)Theories: Structuralism, Marxism |
| ambiguity (Subject heading) |
| Analytic Literary Theory and Aesthetics (Subject heading)‘Analytic literary theory’ refers to a school of thought in literary theory heavily influenced by analytic philosophy and theory of science. Although it might be regarded to be an umbrella term for quite different approaches, all these approaches share a strong commitment to introducing the standards, theories, and methods of analytic philosophy into literary studies. Analytic literary theory typically aims at well-thought-out methodology, good reasoning, and transparent notions. Large parts of analytic literary theory deal with reconstructing the practice of literary studies and are thus a meta-theory of other literary theories. Key areas of research done in analytic literary theory are the theory of fictionality, the theory of interpretation, the elucidation of basic literary terms such as ‘author’ and ‘meaning’, and problems in the methodology of literary studies. Among the main proponents of literary theory are the Germans Harald Fricke and Werner Strube. Analytic literary theory is closely related to aesthetics as practiced by analytic philosophers. Essentialist or universalist views of beauty and art are usually dismissed by analytic philosophers, who traditionally tried to answer questions such as ‘What is art?’ and ‘What are aesthetic judgements?’ by analyzing how we talk about these matters.Theories: Analytic Literary Theory and Aesthetics |
| Analytic Literary Theory and Aesthetics (Theory)‘Analytic literary theory’ refers to a school of thought in literary theory heavily influenced by analytic philosophy and theory of science. Although it might be regarded to be an umbrella term for quite different approaches, all these approaches share a strong commitment to introducing the standards, theories, and methods of analytic philosophy into literary studies. Analytic literary theory typically aims at well-thought-out methodology, good reasoning, and transparent notions. Large parts of analytic literary theory deal with reconstructing the practice of literary studies and are thus a meta-theory of other literary theories. Key areas of research done in analytic literary theory are the theory of fictionality, the theory of interpretation, the elucidation of basic literary terms such as ‘author’ and ‘meaning’, and problems in the methodology of literary studies. Among the main proponents of literary theory are the Germans Harald Fricke and Werner Strube. Analytic literary theory is closely related to aesthetics as practiced by analytic philosophers. Essentialist or universalist views of beauty and art are usually dismissed by analytic philosophers, who traditionally tried to answer questions such as ‘What is art?’ and ‘What are aesthetic judgements?’ by analyzing how we talk about these matters.Subject heading: aesthetic experience, exemplification, Analytic Literary Theory and Aesthetics, definition and explication, Strube, Werner, Searle, John, speech act, Fricke, Harald |
| appeal (Subject heading)Theories: Reception Theory / Reception Aesthetics |
