EN 466 LITERARY THEORY

STUDY QESUTIONS FOR DE MAN ESSAY

 

  1. What is the scholastic model of literature?

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  2. What is the phenomenological model of literature?

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  3. When does literary theory come into being?

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  4. What is the difference between the semiological approach to literature and other ones?

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  5. What is a "Cratylian awareness of the sign"?

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  6. What is the difference between referentiality and phenomenalism?

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  7. What is the trivium? The quadrivium? How are they linked?

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  8. What claim of the trivium does rhetoric undo?

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