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| Question | Answer |
| What is literature? | -self-referential -highly regarded -non-pragmatic -imaginative writing -specific use of language |
| Imaginative writing (What is literature?) | not fact,but fiction ok,but... philosophical texts are considered literature. and what about the bible? |
| specific use of language (What is literature?) | a deviation from the linguistic norm ok,but... this is not limited to literature: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away",biographies,modern literature |
| Literature is self-referential... (What is literature?) | ...but so are nursery rhymes,advertising slogans, etc. =>"This sentence,no verb" -draws attention to its own principles |
| Literature is non-pragmatic. (What is literature?) | but what about: -Die Leiden des jungen Werther -Catharsis,Aristotle Literature is effective. (D. Attridge) -use literature as a guideline for their own life |
| Literature is writing that is highly regarded. (What is literature?) | Problem: historical change,modification of the canon (inclusion of women, postcolonial texts, popular fiction,etc.) |
| literature is functional (T.Eagleton) | you want a novel to be literature,therefore it is |
| Literary theories | -author-centred approaches -text-centred approaches -reader-centred approaches |
| 1.author-centred approaches |
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| 2. text-centred approaches |
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| 3. reader-centred approaches |
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| anticipatory function of literature | author picks sth. up, years later this happens |
| ethical function of literature | reflecting your own moral concept, but can experience the protagonists moral without doing it on your own ("Probehandeln") |
| passionate thinking | can suffer/be happy with character => can be cleansing (catharsis) |
| What does homodiegetic/autodiegetic mean? | narrator is part of the story (Stanzel's first person narration) |
| What does heterodiegetic mean? | Narrator is not part of the fictional world (Stanzel's authorial/figural narration) |
| Who established the terms Homodiegetic/Autodiegetic and Heterodiegetic Narration? | Gerard Genette |
| story time | erzählte Zeit (Zeit, die innerhalb der Geschichte verstreicht) |
| discourse time | Erzählzeit (Zeit, die man fürs Lesen braucht) |
| summary (concerning time) | story time > discourse time |
| Stretch (concerning Time) | Story Time < Discourse Time |
| Scene (Concerning Time) | Story time= Discourse Time |
| Ellipsis | omission,omits aspects of no importance |
| Pause | Comment, description |
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