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It proposes an auxiliary, complementary methodology that quantifies literary form by selecting definable features and counting their unambiguous instances, tracking location, duration, sequencing, and patterns of repetition and variation. 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I taught at the undergraduate level largely in institutions that offered liberal arts courses and majors but certainly could not be considered liberal arts institutions. Many of my “objectively oriented”students undoubtedly were uncomfortable with the subjectivity they perceived in the discussion of literature. I have come to recognize that I probably shortchanged those students interested in careers in engineering, technology, mathematics, science, and so on, not because I didn’t expose them to a wide variety of humanistic approaches to the literary arts but because I never attempted to incorporate an approach to literature that might have truly engaged them and played to their intellectual interests and strengths. The following presents the kernel of such an approach.  \nThe Basics  \nLet me begin with some basic assertions: I’m really just proposing a renewed emphasis on an old approach to literary analysis and an extension of the techniques associated with that approach. I’m going to introduce a new term or two to try to capture conveniently the focus of my efforts, but these will not change the fundamental approach. And, to reassure committed  \ndeconstructionists and their contemporaries, my proposal involves only an auxiliary methodology. I’m not trying to displace or supersede anyone but to introduce an aid to understanding, a complementary tool kit—a kit that has been used occasionally, but not regularly and systematically, by many teachers and critics.  \nThe familiar approach is usually termed formalism—and in its traditional forms has been in regular use for decades. The “new and improved” version could be termed architectonic criticism or morphometric (“form measuring”) analysis. While formalism in many varieties, including New Criticism, has an extensive history of dealing profitably with poetry and has provided concepts for critical analysis used in numerous textbooks on fiction, architectonic criticism would aspire to facilitate the analysis of the structure of fiction in its shorter and longer forms in a manner different from that typical of the New Critic.  \nOur intensified formal criticism involves the sort of detailed but relatively abstract analysis characteristic of some areas of linguistics (stylostatistics particularly) and musicology. The architectonic approach employs techniques similar to those of content analysis found infields such as communications and the social sciences but with a differing focus or goal—the quantification of form rather than the explication of content.1 And our approach is not without precursors in the narrower field of literary analysis: the familiar Freitag’s Pyramid would represent a simple geometric analog to literary development, and John B. Carroll’s “Vectors of Prose Analysis” would illustrate a major mathematical examination of literary style.2 Despite a  \nmathematical emphasis, our approach allows the critic considerable flexibility.  \nIn essence, the procedure involves selecting a feature (perhaps to be designated an“enumereme”—a word, a phrase, an image, the paragraph unit, the chapter unit, and so on) and carefully counting its unambiguous instances—tabulating them, perhaps diagramming them, considering their location and duration, examining their sequencing and their patterns of repetition and variation.3 We could envision the tapestry of the literary work revealed by a static visualization of a temporal art in the manner of the musical score—seeing the structural patterns holistically rather than encountering them sequentially. By considering multiple features of a given work, we might reveal, as did those old transparent maps of America’s westward expansion, layers of underlying struc","cbCailac3iQlWy6F","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailac3iQlWy6F","pdf",208954,"English","# The Basics\n## The familiar approach and the new term\n# The procedure: selecting features and counting\n# A Prelude\n## Analysis of \"Frere Jacques\"","[{\"question\":\"What does architectonic criticism add to traditional formalism?\",\"answer\":\"It extends familiar formalism by introducing architectonic or morphometric analysis that focuses on quantifying form rather than explicating content. It operates as an auxiliary aid rather than replacing existing approaches.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the architectonic procedure carried out in practice?\",\"answer\":\"Select a feature to be studied (e.g., a word, phrase, image, or paragraph/chapter unit), then count its unambiguous instances. The method includes tabulating, diagramming, examining location/duration, and analyzing sequencing and repetition/variation patterns.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does feature selection matter for the resulting literary judgment?\",\"answer\":\"Different selected components can produce different, though fully justified, judgments of underlying patterns. Consistent identification and adherence to the counting regimen are required for validity.\"}]","Architectonic Criticism - Re Form in the Literature Classroom | PDF",1792086445,29]