Ingiliz yazar elestirmenleri, Petru Golban, 2 mar 21, tue 7pm
Discussion today. General introductory class. The title of class is XX century
British writer critics. Contemporary British writer critics. Ufukdan alabilirsiniz.
Two texts present in every book. David Lodge "Criticism and Theory." David Lodge
a very important XX century novelist, professor of English in England. Longman
anthology of Modern criticism and theory. Important XX century critics. Major XX
century schools and criticism. Dryden, Sydney, Alexander Pope, Coleridge'den sonra
you will see XX century critics. T. S. Eliot, V. Woolf, Lawrence, David Lodge some of
the most important British writer critics. Foster, G. H. etc. They are writers of
first half of XX century. Coexisting with these writer-critics. These writer-
critics may belong or not belong to schools of criticism. Writer-critics may belong
to 2 schools of criticism. WWII'dan sonra daha cok. Structuralism is like post-war
period. Between Formalism and Structuralism arasinda. Anglo-American neo-criticism.
Talking about Woolf, Eliot, Foster as writer-critics of first half of XX century.
Scientific type of literary criticism, represented by Formalism and New Criticism.
New Criticism ile Woolf, Eliot, Foster ile alakasi yok. They are not representative of
Anglo-American criticism. Maybe T.S. Eliot in tradition close to New criticism and
Formalism. Schklovski (?) Formalism. Who are representatives of Anglo-American
neo criticism. Practical criticism by I. A. Richards. Text-oriented, focusing on
the work itself. This type of criticism is called Formal approach to literature,
Formalism, New criticism. Post-war period French structuralism represents the four
major literature. Autonomous, self-sufficient. Purposeless. Formal approach.
Excludes the text from the context. With social, receiver, society. Considers the
work solely in relation to itself, the text. Patterns, structures, general,
universal is what structuralism focuses, binary opposition. Neo criticism also
focuses on literature but considers meaning. More thematological approach. New
criticism, meaning, significance of words. Formalism, language devices. Devices of
language. Piece of literary work. Stylistic device, looking for what. Trying to
disclose what? Figures of speech. Literariness. Schklovski (?) art as text. Keyword
ne? Schklovski's contribution. It became a principle of magical realisation.
Defamiliarisation. Binary opposition. Look at British writer critics, but look
at science of literary critics. A formal approach to literature corresponds to one
of four critical arts. Mimetic, pragmatic, expressive and objective. Formal
approach to literature. Cultural studies belong to. Feminism, pragmatic theory.
Reader-oriented theory. Reader-response theory. Strengthen and develop yourself for
further studies. We will see how much we will cover and how. Organised XVIII studies.
For the beginning, today we can remember two of them and others for tomorrow.
You can see 4 texts on perculus. Woolf and Wells, go to page 110, you will see
essay until page 124. First task for next week. Woolf Modern fiction vs Contemporary
novel by Wells. Both Woolf and Wells speak about their contemporary literature. For
us, we need to identify the ideas and to see if ideas emerge or differentiate.
Presumably, Woolf and Wells had to different opposite contemporary fiction. Woolf's
Modern fiction refers to Modernist. She doesn't refer to Modernity in historical
terms as we understand. Which is the end of Modernity. Wells is the representative
of Modernity. Followers of Dickens, Thackeray, Meredith and others. Representative
of experimentative novel. On novel and fiction writing. This is your first task
for the next week. Another writer of that period is Foster, probably Foster
Passage to India. He was rather famous, Aspects of novel. More than his novels.
Forster is also the author of Bildungsroman. Not known at all. Okumak lazim.
Page 133, chapter called People. Forster, sayfa 33, People. Read it. And
People continued sayfa 47. You will see very interesting typology of characters.
Famous division of characters of round and flat characters given to us by Forster.
He developed it. We know it. Theorotising this typology. Son, 4. T. S. Eliot.
Neden T. S. Eliot at the end. After TS Eliot, we will talk about Formalist approach
to literature. Formalism, new criticism. Woolf, Eliot, Forster, British writer-
critics from the first XX century. They aren't included in Russian Formalism and
American New Criticism. However, TS Eliot by some of his critical ideas, can be
included in Formalism and New Criticism by Schklovski. On their contemporary novel,
Woolf modernist, Wells. 1st homework is read Woolf and Wells, while reading yaz
extract critical ideas. Woolf diyor ki soyle yaz, Wells diyor ki boyle yaz. Not alin.
Wells only one part. Not the whole book. 14 sayfalik bir chapter of the book, Forster
sonra chapter 3 and 4, on people, which means characters in the novel. Flat, round,
people acting in the novel, kind of actors. To understand, tradition and individual
talent. To focus on XX century and contemporary literary theory as a science.
We study XX century, writer-critics. Woolf and TS Eliot, Forster, Wells, DH Lawrence
is a writer-critic. Drabble, zaman yok. David Lodge. Peter Ackroyd, Shakespeare
biography, etc. XX century. Scientific, objective, methodological, literary theory
and criticism with its own trends and schools. You should remember now, these schools
and trends are divided according to type of approach. Formal approach, approach
through reading, approach through socio-cultural context. Approach through gender,
Psychoanalytical approach. Post-structuralism and deconsturction. En genis burada
hangi, the most complex and diverse with more schools and trends are these:
Formal approach, approach through reading, approach through socio-cultural
context. Remember, formal approach has 3 schools, hangi, tell us, Russian formalism,
Anglo-American New Criticism, French Structuralism. Approach through reading,
reader-oriented theories. Reader-response theories. Reception theory. Approach to
socio-cultural context hangi, traditional or vulgar Marxism, sonra traditional
Historicism. Traditional Historicism becomes New Historicism, which is related to
historiographic metafiction. Cultural materialism, Cultural studies. Postcolonial
theory, Michel Foucault, ecocriticism, posthumanism, race studies. Approach through
gender, feminism. Anglo-American at least closer to Marxism. Feminism closer to
Derrida. Psychoanalysis approach closer to poststructuralism, they reject themselves
as critics. Deconstructive reading. So formal approach to literature, include these
3. Approach through reading include these. Approach through socio-cultural context
include these. Ayri ayri icinde barindiriyor. Anglo-American school. Cultural
studies and cultural. Disability studies, queer theory. In some countries it is
forbidden to tell boy or a girl. French Feminism buraya bakiyor. Helene Sisua (?)
was affected by Derrida. Juliet Mitchel and Juliet Christie. Simdi, normally onlar
interrelated. Queer theory in gender studies maybe. Gender can be related to
Feminism. Sexual minority vs heterosexual majority, Marxist approach in a way. Inter-
sectional. Net oyle bir categorisation yok. Like King Lear gibi. Is it like a
tragedy? What kind of tragedy? Political action of killing the ruler. Onemli.
Focus on the writer critics in the XX century. Follow this literary theory and
criticism. TS Eliot has related to formal approach. David Lodge has relation to
formal approach but structuralism. These classes very complex and difficult.
For next week, read 4 texts, criticism. Wells 1 parca, Eliot 2 parca. For British
literature, Tinternaby, Kublai Khan, etc. We have our classes online, I can see
a round. Tarih, Sociology.
The end. 8:10pm
PS: This is my first post of my MA degree notes at Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Dept of English language and literature. These series of notes don't contain anything serious. They might be jokes, or draft or whatever except something academic or rather serious.
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