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Intertextual Criticism: Literature as Context
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1
To what extent is Bakhtin's dialogism a textual (or intertextual) property, and in what sense is it a property of the author's ethos, personal ideology, or cultural values? How might two critics with opposing ideologies interpret the dialogism of a particular text in different ways?
2
In his Introduction to
Anatomy of Criticism
, Frye argues that the theoretical categories of the literary critic ought to be derived inductively from the text (rather than imposed
a priori
). A natural scientist might similarly distinguish between empirical laws (convenient descriptions of phenomena) and natural laws (theoretical explanations of phenomena). Do Frye's archetypes constitute a
theory
of literature, or merely an arbitrary descriptive taxonomy? How would you distinguish between explanation and description in literary criticism?
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