Specialized Terms for Research
Key terms for the course:
Controlling Value
Opposing Controlling Value
Context
Purpose
Opposing Controlling Value
Context
Purpose
From McKee, Gallop, Seitz, and Rabinowitz
Aesthetic Emotion
Premise
Controlling Idea
Counter Idea
Idealistic, pessimistic, and ironic endings
Rhetoric
Reading for the main idea
Close-reading
Projection
Rhetorical Stance
Capable Reader
Submissive Reader
Resistant Reader
Virtual Readers (polyphony)
Actual Audience
Hypothetical/Authorial Audience
Narrative Audience
Ideal Narrative Audience
Irony
Premise
Controlling Idea
Counter Idea
Idealistic, pessimistic, and ironic endings
Rhetoric
Reading for the main idea
Close-reading
Projection
Rhetorical Stance
Capable Reader
Submissive Reader
Resistant Reader
Virtual Readers (polyphony)
Actual Audience
Hypothetical/Authorial Audience
Narrative Audience
Ideal Narrative Audience
Irony