EN 466 LITERARY THEORY
STUDY QUESTIONS FOR "RHETORIC AND READER RESPONSE"

  1. What is the historical status of rhetoric? What are some examples of its broad contemporary interpretation?
  2. What is the instrumental conception of rhetoric? What is the experiential conception?
  3. Where does Eagleton situate rhetoric? How does this situation make style an ideological statement?
  4. What is the sociological view of rhetoric (what is the difference between instrumentality and functionalism)?
  5. According to Walter Ong, what is the difference between oral and written literature?

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    The Rhetoric of Reader Response

  6. What is the common denominator of literary studies after New Criticism?
  7. What did Aristotle mean by catharsis? What did Coleridge mean by "esemplastic power"?
  8. What is phenomenology? What is a gestalt?
  9. How does George Poulet define the phenomenon of "otherness"?
  10. How are phenomenology and formalism alike/unlike?
  11. What does Heidegger mean by "dasein"?
  12. What does Jauss mean by "horizon of expectation"?
  13. What does Wofgang Iser mean by "narrative gaps"?
  14. What is "subjective criticism"?
  15. What does the concept of an "interpretative community" accomplish? What are its limitations?
  16. What is the structuralist conception of the "literary fact"?
  17. Who is the "resisting reader"?

What is "rhyzomic logic"?

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