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Hélène Cixous-Born in Algeria, 1937
-Jewish
-Wrote without a genre
-Most famous theory "Le rire de la méduse" which encouraged women to communicate with their bodies and not with words.
-Said "It is impossible to define a feminine practice of writing, and this is an impossibility that will remain, for this practice can never be theorized, enclosed, encoded, coded -- which doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. But it will always surpass the discourse that regulates the phallocentric system: it does and will take place in areas other than those subordinated to philosophical-theoretical domination. It will be conceived of only by subjects who are breakers of automatisms, by peripheral figures that no authority can ever subjugate"
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Wolfgang Iser-Born in Germany
-PhD in English
-Interested in intercultural exchange
-Believes that meaning are not crated solely by the author
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Sigmund Freud-Born in the Australia empire, 1856
-Developed the idea of the id, ego, and super ego
-Godfather of psychoanalysis
-Believed that literature always had sexual desires, phallic symbols, etc. as its underlying theme or motivation.
Jiwon
Edward Said-Jewish
-Believed any history is not standardized but idealistic
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-Matthew Arnold-
*Poetry as a "criticism of life"
*Poetry deals with the questions in the meanings of life
*Poetry as a substitution for religion
*"More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to provide for us, to console us, to sustain us, and to interprit life for us."
*Notions to take away from the essay:
-Notion of "Touchstones"
-Poetry as a religion
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