Lexicon

• Intertextuality- The meaning of a text is affected by another text.

• Intentional Fallacy- There isn’t just one way to read a text. There is no right or wrong way to interpret a text.

• Always Already- human action can be narrated...because it is always already symbolically mediated. –(Paul Ricoeur)

• Allegory of Reading-

• Subtext- Undertone or underlying content.

• New Criticism- Belief that the meaning is all in the text. It does not consider the historical and cultural context or the reader response and Intention of the author. The new critic does not look through any critical lens and does not want to discuss anything beyond the surface.

• Reader Response Criticism-

• Affective Fallacy-

• Subjective Criticism-

• Interpretive Community-

• emasculated- Feeling of being unmanly.

• Contrapuntal Reading-

• Deconstruction-

• Delirium-

• Origins-

• Uncanny- Familiar and unfamiliar somehow.

• Monuments-

• Identification- When the reader sees themselves in a character from the book they’re reading.

• Interpellation- Not being free from any biases or constraints. The ways in which we have been interpellated, affect how we understand things and which critical lenses we use, both consciously and unconsciously. When babies are new, they aren’t yet interpellated. They haven’t been affected by the world yet.

• Peritexts- Phrases before the story. 

Here is what I have so far for my Lexicon. There may be some that aren't really supposed to be there, but I'm still not completely sure which ones should and should not be on here. Some of these are lacking a little bit as well. We'll call this a rough draft.