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Intertextuality:
Uncanny: Out of this world. Uneasy. Ex: Their resemblance is uncanny!
Peritexts:
intentional fallacy:This is what comes up in my mind..."I think what the author was trying to say..."
Response: "You're wrong."
interpollation: Not being able to help the fact the your surrounds become a part of who you are. We are all connected on certain levels because of this.
identification:
key term: An important word or phrase that represents the texts "whole" to you.
contrapuntal reading:
deconstruction: Derrida. Dada. Break down and build up.
delirieium: Out of it?
subtext: What is said without words.
reader response criticism: "I think this is what it means. And therefor, that's is what it means."
affective fallacy?
subjective criticism:

"All by myself"

That song by Eric Carmen is the one that popped into my mind when reading the prompt. How do I understand the "self"? In terms of text, I love looking at it in terms of it "self" and nothing else. In the reading I understood the separation of the text from the world as it being "a self". To me the "self" means what is there. That is all you get. No outside factors. No outside relations. No outside text. Just what is there. The text becomes its own person, telling you a story that only lives there on the page. It becomes its own image, its own belief system. That's how I always first read a text. That's not to say that all text is only meant to be read like that. If it was, I don't feel like there would be any progression in the world because ideas wouldn't be allowed to birth anything other than what the author meant and set in stone right there on the page. It's important to see the text as a "self" and also just as important to understand how it connects to reality, or was/is a reality or was created through real events. I don't think any text really wants to be "All by [itself]!" It wants both. It wants to be understood for what the author wrote it for and in any other way that would create an epiphany for anyone.
Eric Carmen-All by MySelf
{Because live is sometimes so much better than the recording.}
The Outsiders is the first book that I would say I was able to read it for the story as it was, and then later realize how it connected with so many different points in my life. It became a person to me, someone I didn't have to tell everything to so it could relate, because it already deeply knew.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton(photo credit to the NY Times)Who doesn't dig them?

If you haven't read it, just do it.
The used cost 0.01 cents on Amazon. How could you not

Reflect

So, I'm not 100% sure on what I'm supposed to do on this post. Professor K. said reflections... So I'll reflect. Class: Let's get to "The Raven"! I'm ready for it. Ready isn't the word. I drool over getting to it, anticipate it every day. Who wouldn't? Poe casts a strange and addicting spell on all(the ones I know) of his readers. I've done a poetry breakdown of "The Conqueror Worm"( just lovely), but other than that, Poe has been my enjoy and don't over think author. Actually, thinking back on it I did study some of his stuff in high school, but never wrote about it. So I think that using one of these lit theories to read Poe would be pretty fun. Preferably I'd do historicism/colonial. I feel like that's what'd I'd most want to do on anything though. I AM excited for the group I got put into for our projects. The group does have feminism and gender(i'm blanking on what it's actually called-if it's not gender) which I never would have imagined going along with historicism, but after Professor K. talking about it I can definitely see where the two can overlap with colonial. I'm excited to study...the woman with the strong name. Easy and reads like a beat. Yet, I can't remember it. Of course. But I'm elated and burning with embarrassment to find that there are women who don't hate men that are femnists and have it right. Equality for both sexes. Balance. Why forget about men? That's what life is about. And I just love the fact that the other femnist writer was described on her date card as maybe loving men too much. Ha. Yes...I look forward to these two gals. Maybe I've been avoiding the femnist lense for too long.
Life w/ School and my little girl: ...how did I make it through another week? I think I'll be asking this four times a month. 

Favorite Movie

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Which is also my favorite book because it was the first book that pulled me out of my world and into one that I loved because I understood it and it understood me (most important). I'd sit in my half-bathroom sized walk-in closet with blankets piled onto the floor and listen to Sublime while drinking Diet Pepsi...or read S.E. Hinton and drink Diet Pepsi. I read all of her works in that closet. Diet Pepsi. We had months worth stocked up because of shutting down the family restaurant. Finances tight. So was everything in family life. I needed my own space. It's funny how such a compact space supplied me with more freedom than I'd ever felt. It was warm in my space...and the yellow bulb made everything glow. The warmth was welcoming to my cold blood. My moms bloods always been warm. As a child I never wanted to let go of her because of her warmth...and love. Because isn't that what love really feels like? Warmth. A different temperature for everyone, but nonetheless perfect in every way. It's the temp you can play hard in, nap in, work hard in. Love is what drives us to do those same things.
Pony Boy was GOLD and Cherry Valence was bold. I wanted to be both.

Confusion and Clarity

I've always thought it easy to do the Reader's Response Theory, because it allows me to view the work in whatever fashion I do or would like to. But, what I love is New Historicism. I love the idea that where we are(in time and geographically) and what is going on around us will always effect our writing. I think that analyzing a piece from this view would not only allow me to create my own ideas of what is going on, but it would allow me to learn what has been taking place in this author's life and society and how it influenced the work. I have always loved history and how it plays a role in all of our lives.
As far as some of the others go, I was pretty confused by them! Postmodern Criticism was the most confusing to me. And Feminist Criticism is the one I am least interested in.