{"id":80,"date":"2013-01-24T21:41:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T05:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/spr13engl103\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2013-01-29T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T20:19:51","slug":"the-theory-toolbox","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/gantercourses.net\/spr13engl103\/the-theory-toolbox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Theory Toolbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

* based on The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences<\/em>, Second Edition (2012)<\/p>\n

General Keywords List<\/h2>\n

This page contains keywords from the book: key concepts, unfamiliar terms, and sometimes key phrases directly cited from the book (page numbers are given for directly quoted phrases).\u00a0 Students should select a term from here for incorporation into the Moodle glossary assignments.<\/p>\n

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Chapter 1, Why Theory?<\/h3>\n
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  • theory (as abstraction)<\/li>\n
  • opinion<\/li>\n
  • theory (as toolbox)<\/li>\n
  • natural (as in “natural fact”)<\/li>\n
  • “Thinking begins in provocation” (p. 8)<\/li>\n
  • deconstruct<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Chapter 2, Authori\/ity<\/h3>\n
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    • author<\/li>\n
    • canonicity<\/li>\n
    • the Puritans<\/li>\n
    • author-function<\/li>\n
    • “the death of the author” (p. 18)<\/li>\n
    • discourse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Chapter 3, Reading<\/h3>\n
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      • reading<\/li>\n
      • reader<\/li>\n
      • “the material relations of power that influence the production of meaning” (p. 23)<\/li>\n
      • context<\/li>\n
      • “All meaning is contextual because languages are social<\/em> rather than natural<\/em> phenomena” (p. 24)<\/li>\n
      • signifier<\/li>\n
      • signified<\/li>\n
      • arbitrary<\/li>\n
      • referent<\/li>\n
      • Saussure, Ferdinand de<\/li>\n
      • metaphor<\/li>\n
      • metonymy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Chapter 4, Subjectivity<\/h3>\n
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        • subjective<\/li>\n
        • objective<\/li>\n
        • “subjectivity”<\/li>\n
        • “subject”<\/li>\n
        • institution<\/li>\n
        • “who you are is dependent on recognition<\/em> of your identity by others” (p. 43)<\/li>\n
        • Althusser, Louis<\/li>\n
        • interpellation<\/li>\n
        • “no meaning or reading can take place outside of a cultural or historical context” (p. 48)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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