Am engl lit theory

Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf - how women are situatedin relation to literature and creativity. Woolf argues that for women to write, they require both financial independence and personal space.

Three Guineas

Virginia Woolf - how women’s situation changed postwar

Authorial androgyny

Virginia Woolf: the unity of the mind. Woolf argued that it is possible to combine the male and female features of the brain. She presents men as having become overly conscious of their sex

Value theory

Enlightenment, the primacy of reason -

Distrust theory

Romanticism, questions the primacy of reason

Distrust deficient male perspective

The feminist idea that the primacy of reason belongs to the long tradition of male thought

One is not born a woman but rather becomes one.

Simone de Beauvoir: rejection of any kind of female nature or essence

Myth of woman

Simone de Beauvoir: a simplification, reduction of women. Patriarchy relies on the myth of women’s essential immanence and her otherness in constructing male subjectivity. The myth is not a reduction to pure silence, but a stammering presence which fails to make itself manifest and clear

Saussure definition of lgg

Defined lgg as a system of signs. Sign = signifier+signified

semiology

Lgg as a science system, how it works, and what other science systems are there, what can we tell about them, how do they work

structuralism

What lies behind the surface, underlying norms of organisation

langue

Saussure - the abstract, systematic, social parts of human speech, the system of rules

parole

Saussure: the concrete, individual, physical act of speaking or writing

competence

The perfect knowledge about the whole system of lgg

performance

Where the everyday phenomena of lgg use happens

anthropology

Levi Strauss: describing culture in binary oppositions - the structure that lies behind the everyday phenomena

poetics

Jakobson: scientific study of literary lgg

Jakobson’s communication model

Sender (emotive code), receiver (conative code), message (poetic code), context (referential code), channel (phatic code), code (metalingual)