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	The developments in literary theory can then be integrated into the development of the general social discussion of the various arts. For a first sketch, cf. [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]		The developments in literary theory can then be integrated into the development of the general social discussion of the various arts. For a first sketch, cf. [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]

			==---5. What do we do when we come across literary theory?==

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	The developments in literary theory can then be integrated into the development of the general social discussion of the various arts. For a first sketch, cf. [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]		The developments in literary theory can then be integrated into the development of the general social discussion of the various arts. For a first sketch, cf. [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]



	~~==---5. What do we do when we come across literary theory?==~~
	*Historicise it, place it against the background of the developments as outlined here.
	*Decide which position you want to take.

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	==---5. What do we do when we come across literary theory?==		==---5. What do we do when we come across literary theory?==
			*Historicise it, place it against the background of the developments as outlined here.
			*Decide which position you want to take.

Olaf Simons at 13:07, 5 February 2008

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	<small>Back to [[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1]]</small>		<small>Back to [[2007-08 BM1 Introduction to the Critical and Scholarly Discussion of Literature, Part 1]]</small>

			*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/evaluation-2008-01-31.xls evaluation-2008-01-31.xls]

	==---1. Introductory Reflections: Literary Theory and the Interpretation of Texts -- ''Robinson Crusoe'' and ''The Moonstone''==		==---1. Introductory Reflections: Literary Theory and the Interpretation of Texts -- ''Robinson Crusoe'' and ''The Moonstone''==

Anton Kirchhofer at 13:06, 5 February 2008

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	===Think of literary theory in context of wider debates and issues in society===		===Think of literary theory in context of wider debates and issues in society===
	Why do we start interpreting literature in the 19th century?		Why do we start interpreting literature in the 19th century? And why do we choose particular theories, and not others.

	*Remember: Literature can take over from religious texts as an object of national relevance and educational value. The discussion of literature imports many topics and debates which are virulent across society.		*Remember: Literature can take over from religious texts as an object of national relevance and educational value. The discussion of literature imports many topics and debates which are virulent across society.

	*Literary Theory helps us to import vital issues from a wider discussion in society. Its development should be integrated in the development of the nationwide (and international) debates. ([http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf] )		*Literary Theory helps us to import vital issues from a wider discussion in society, and to take our own position in these wider debates. Its development should be integrated in the development of the nationwide (and international) debates. ([http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf] )

	===Think of the movements in literary theory in correlation to contemporary movements in literature and art===		===Think of the movements in literary theory in correlation to contemporary movements in literature and art===
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	The developments in literary theory can then be integrated into the development of the general social discussion of the various arts. For a first sketch, cf. [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]		The developments in literary theory can then be integrated into the development of the general social discussion of the various arts. For a first sketch, cf. [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]



			==---5. What do we do when we come across literary theory?==

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	==---4. More comprehensive perspectives on the development of literary theory==		==---4. More comprehensive perspectives on the development of literary theory==

	===~~When did literary theory arise? ===~~		===Think of literary theory in relation to the historical changes in the meaning of 'literature'===
	Think of literary theory in relation to the historical changes in the meaning of 'literature'.		When did literary theory arise?
	*From Aristotle to Shelley, from antiquity to around 1800, the focus is on poetry / poesy, not on literature.		*From Aristotle to Shelley, from antiquity to around 1800, the focus is on poetry / poesy, not on literature.

	*~~Poetics~~ is not concerned with interpretation but with the production or the judgment of poetry ~~(it~~ asks:		*Traditionally, poetics is not concerned with interpretation, but with the production or the judgment of poetry. It asks:
	*~~After or around 1800~~, ~~poetics has been appropriated and integrated into literary theory~~, ~~just like poetry has become a part of literature.~~		:**what rules and recipes are there for making different types of poems (in general and for individual genres and generic patterns)?
			:**Is the text well/made according to these rules? Are there compensations for violating the rules (is it pleasing, beautiful, tasteful)?

	~~Literary Theory arises with the~~ (~~controversial) practice of (literary) interpretation in the second half~~ of ~~the nineteenth century:~~		:*(The Belles Lettres will privilege a discussion of 'taste' rather than 'rules', to which the question what is agreeable is central. (is it pleasing, beautiful, tasteful)?
	~~Older models exist not for interpretation, but~~
	~~1. for Production:~~
	~~• Poetics (what~~ rules ~~and recipes are there for making different types of poems? – in general and for individual genres and generic patterns)~~
	~~• Rhetoric how do you structure a text (inventio, dispositio~~, ~~elocutio, memoria, pronuntiatio or actio)~~
	~~2. For Critical Judgment:~~
	~~• Poetics (is it well made according~~ to the ~~rules?)~~
	~~• Taste / Beauty~~ (is it pleasing?)

			*After or around 1800, poetics has been appropriated and integrated into literary theory, just like poetry has become a part of literature.


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	===Think of literary theory in context of wider debates and issues in society===		===Think of literary theory in context of wider debates and issues in society===
	Why do we start interpreting literature in the 19th century?		Why do we start interpreting literature in the 19th century?
	Remember: Literature can take over from religious texts as an object of national relevance and educational value. The discussion of literature imports many topics and debates which are virulent across society.

	*Literary Theory helps us to import vital issues from a wider discussion in society.		*Remember: Literature can take over from religious texts as an object of national relevance and educational value. The discussion of literature imports many topics and debates which are virulent across society.
	Its development should be integrated in the development of the nationwide (and international) debates. ( [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf] )
			*Literary Theory helps us to import vital issues from a wider discussion in society. Its development should be integrated in the development of the nationwide (and international) debates. ([http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf] )

	===Think of the movements in literary theory in correlation to contemporary movements in literature and art===		===Think of the movements in literary theory in correlation to contemporary movements in literature and art===
			Remember, for example, the relation in which Rushdie's ''Satanic Verses'' stood to contemporary post-structuralist and postcolonial theory.

			Once the Writers who produce literature have begun to organise, or be organised, into groups or movements, literary criticism starts doing the same with the specialists whose task it has become to interpret literature.

			The developments in literary theory can then be integrated into the development of the general social discussion of the various arts. For a first sketch, cf. [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/2007-02-06/2007-20c-lit-hist.html Theory and the Wider Market of Debates - A First Draft]

Anton Kirchhofer: /* Think of literary theory in context of wider debates and issues in society */

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	===Think of literary theory in context of wider debates and issues in society===		===Think of literary theory in context of wider debates and issues in society===
	Why do we start interpreting literature in the 19th century?		Why do we start interpreting literature in the 19th century?
	Literature can take over from religious texts as an object of national ~~relkevance~~ and educational value.		Remember: Literature can take over from religious texts as an object of national relevance and educational value. The discussion of literature imports many topics and debates which are virulent across society.



	~~Literary Theory helps us to import vital issues from a wider~~ discussion ~~in society~~
	~~Its development should be integrated in the development~~ of ~~the nationwide (~~and ~~international) communication about literature~~




			*Literary Theory helps us to import vital issues from a wider discussion in society.
			Its development should be integrated in the development of the nationwide (and international) debates. ( [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf] )

	===Think of the movements in literary theory in correlation to contemporary movements in literature and art===		===Think of the movements in literary theory in correlation to contemporary movements in literature and art===

Anton Kirchhofer: /* Pro-Theory/Anti-Theory Positions */

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Pro-Theory/Anti-Theory Positions

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	All literary theories are caught in a fundamental dilemma:		All literary theories are caught in a fundamental dilemma:
	Do they help elucidate the text, or to they stand in the way of a correct understanding of the text and of literature in general?		Do they help elucidate the text, or to they stand in the way of a correct understanding of the text and of literature in general?
	Are they the key without which texts cannot be understood properly, or are they obstacles that stand in the way of a proper understanding of the text?		Are they the key without which texts cannot be understood properly, or are they obstacles that stand in the way of a proper understanding of the text?




	*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf]
	*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-2.pdf]

	==---3. Second Thoughts==		==---3. Second Thoughts==

Anton Kirchhofer: /* The Succession of Theoretical Approaches and Movements since the Middle of the 19th Century */

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The Succession of Theoretical Approaches and Movements since the Middle of the 19th Century

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	There are two alternative patterns for accounting for the succession of these approaches:		There are two alternative patterns for accounting for the succession of these approaches:
	*The swing of the pendulum paradigm: Text-oriented vs. Context-oriented phases		*The swing of the pendulum paradigm: Text-oriented vs. Context-oriented phases (cf. [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements, Variety A])
	*The permanent competition and rivalry between text-oriented vs. Context-oriented approaches		*The permanent competition and rivalry between text-oriented vs. Context-oriented approaches

	*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements]


	===The Ancient Tradition of Poetological Reflection===		===The Ancient Tradition of Poetological Reflection===

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	==---1. Introductory ~~Reflectinos~~: Literary Theory and the Interpretation of Texts -- ''Robinson Crusoe'' and ''The Moonstone''==		==---1. Introductory Reflections: Literary Theory and the Interpretation of Texts -- ''Robinson Crusoe'' and ''The Moonstone''==

	Literary Theory, at its most general, addresses two questions:		Literary Theory, at its most general, addresses two questions:
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	*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements]		*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements]

			There are two alternative patterns for accounting for the succession of these approaches:
			*The swing of the pendulum paradigm: Text-oriented vs. Context-oriented phases
			*The permanent competition and rivalry between text-oriented vs. Context-oriented approaches

			*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/pre/bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf bm1-lit-theory-timeline-1a.pdf Brief Overview of Theoretical Approaches and Movements]


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	==---4. More comprehensive perspectives on the development of literary theory==		==---4. More comprehensive perspectives on the development of literary theory==

	===Think of literary theory in relation to the historical changes in the meaning of 'literature'~~===~~		===When did literary theory arise? ===
			Think of literary theory in relation to the historical changes in the meaning of 'literature'.
	*From Aristotle to Shelley, from antiquity to around 1800, the focus is on poetry / poesy, not on literature.		*From Aristotle to Shelley, from antiquity to around 1800, the focus is on poetry / poesy, not on literature.

			*Poetics is not concerned with interpretation but with the production or the judgment of poetry (it asks:
	*After or around 1800, poetics has been appropriated and integrated into literary theory, just like poetry has become a part of literature.		*After or around 1800, poetics has been appropriated and integrated into literary theory, just like poetry has become a part of literature.
	*Poetics is not concerned with interpretation


	Literary Theory arises with the (controversial) practice of (literary) interpretation in the second half of the nineteenth century:		Literary Theory arises with the (controversial) practice of (literary) interpretation in the second half of the nineteenth century:

	Older models exist not for interpretation, but		Older models exist not for interpretation, but
	1. for Production:		1. for Production:
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	===Think of literary theory in context of wider debates and issues in society===		===Think of literary theory in context of wider debates and issues in society===
			Why do we start interpreting literature in the 19th century?
			Literature can take over from religious texts as an object of national relkevance and educational value.



			Literary Theory helps us to import vital issues from a wider discussion in society
			Its development should be integrated in the development of the nationwide (and international) communication about literature





	===Think of the movements in literary theory in correlation to contemporary movements in literature and art===		===Think of the movements in literary theory in correlation to contemporary movements in literature and art===