https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m English Estudies en-us 2021-04-13 22:30:29 UTC 2026-05-12 16:10:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d6.png milton_28berdejo https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414236454 In analogy to the communication model applied in linguistics to face-to-face interaction (sender – message – receiver), literary scholars have come up with a model for literary communication. ]]> 2021-04-13 23:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414236454 milton_28berdejo https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414291787 According to this model, literary production and reception obviously require at least two participants: someone who writes a literary text and someone who reads it. The literary text itself functions as message between author and reader. Of course, the term ‘message’ must not be taken literally. ]]> 2021-04-13 23:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414291787 milton_28berdejo https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414295522 The message is conveyed in a specific material shape, e.g., as a book, a stage script, a screenplay, an audio tape, video or nowadays on the internet or CD-Rom. In other words: The channel or medium through which the literary text is presented can vary significantly.  I always apply certain strategies when reading a novel, for example, such as accepting its fictionality.

]]> 2021-04-13 23:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414295522 milton_28berdejo https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414302065 Likewise, authors follow literary conventions when they create a piece of literature or they deliberately defy these conventions to create something new and innovative. At any rate, there is always some reference to what we might call the code of literary production and reception, i.e., rules for writing and reading texts. A banal and yet extremely important aspect is the fact that author and reader must share a language for communication to work at all. ]]> 2021-04-13 23:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414302065 milton_28berdejo https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414315437 Another part of the literary code would be the way we classify literary texts in terms of genre; Needless to say that literary codes can change over time (as languages and cultures generally do) and that different periods have used different classificatory systems.]]> 2021-04-13 23:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414315437 milton_28berdejo https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414320272 Reference is a term used in linguistics to denote the relationship between a sign and the object it signifies. While this narrow concept is problematic for literary studies because objects and persons in a story-world, for example, do not strictly speaking refer to ‘real’ objects or people, the concept is useful if one allows for relationships between signs and mental models, concepts, ideas, etc. ]]> 2021-04-13 23:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414320272 milton_28berdejo https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414332584 Literary studies investigate various aspects of the processes shown in the communication model. Thus, one can look at the relationship between author and text or reader and text, one can focus on the text itself or on how it is embedded in its socio-historical and cultural contexts. ]]> 2021-04-13 23:52:03 UTC https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414332584 milton_28berdejo https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414350506 Some of the major concepts which students of English literature should be familiar with are the following: 
• Literary History 
• Poetics and Genre 
• Literary Theory ]]> 2021-04-14 00:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414350506 milton_28berdejo https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414366711 Names of literary epochs or periods have mostly been ‘invented’ in retrospect. The underlying assumptions are based on certain common features, this time not merely of texts but of socio-cultural developments. In English literature, historians for convenience often use the name of the sovereign in power at a certain time. Thus, they speak about the Elizabethan Age or the Victorian Period. Sometimes, approximately the same period of time can have various names, depending on the perspective adapted by the historian. The Elizabethan Age, for example, is also referred to as the Early Modern Period or the Renaissance. ]]> 2021-04-14 00:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414366711 milton_28berdejo https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414382263 The three major generic groups are prose fiction, drama and poetry.
Ever since Aristotle’s Poetics, if not before, scholars have been concerned with classifying literary texts according to predefined categories. The groups or classes of texts have been labelled by means of group-specific names. ]]> 2021-04-14 00:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/milton_28berdejo/vucjte9yrzmchq0m/wish/1414382263