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Literary Criticism
Formalist criticism is one way that a reader can approach his understanding of a text. When a reader looks at a poem, play, story or novel from a formalist perspective, he is looking solely at the...
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Literary Criticism
Among the various approaches to understanding literary works--formalist, biographical, psychological, gender strategies--the historical approach is one of the oldest. The historical approach to...
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Literary Criticism
Sociological approaches to literature can be divided into two types with two different purposes: 1. Some sociologists mine literature and other arts to discover the ways people think about society....
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Literary Criticism
Biographical theory refers to how an author’s life influenced his or her work. Criticism refers to how we analyze and interpret a work of literature. Biography refers to an author’s background and...
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Literary Criticism
Because literature exists in history, in psychology, in philosophy, in art, in linguistics, etc., a discipline has arisen called “literary criticism”, by which is meant the practice of examining...
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Literary Criticism
Criticism as a discipline and an approach to analyzing (and therefore appreciating) works of art has a long history in Western culture. Traditional literary criticism before the Chicago School of...
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Literary Criticism
“Formalist” criticism, as the term implies, is chiefly concerned with the “form” of a literary work rather than with its “content.” In other words, formalists tend to be more concerned with how a...
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Literary Criticism
The psychoanalytic literary criticism is influenced by psychoanalysis and the tradition begun by Sigmund Freud. This approach to literary criticism not only rests on the theories of Freud; it may...
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Literary Criticism
The term "formalism" is normally used by post-modernist or post-structuralist critics to refer to structuralist or New Critical approaches to literature. It is often used in a reductionist manner,...
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Literary Criticism
Biographical criticism assumes that knowledge of an author’s life is important to knowledge of an author’s work. It assumes that the more we know about the author’s ideas, beliefs, and personality,...
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Literary Criticism
Traditional criticism requires a critic, or analyst, to examine a text in regards to both the author's history and the relevance of the original text to those who read it during the time period it...
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Literary Criticism
The earliest extant literary works, those from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, date to 3000 BC. That means that when we study literature, we need to deal with some 5000 years of literary history. As...
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Literary Criticism
There was a time when literary criticism drew a path of influence from one author to the next, showing influences, relationship between periods, etc. This was called "traditional" criticism, and...
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Literary Criticism
Literary criticism and literary theory are terms that have, in the last century, become interchangeable. Now, to say either is to refer to the study, critique, analysis, and interpretation of...
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Literary Criticism
“New historicism,” as those very words suggest, is thought of as a response and even alternative to earlier kinds of historical criticism. According to many “new historicists,” traditional...
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Literary Criticism
The term "literary appreciation" requires analysis of how an author uses form, structure and technique to create meaning in combination with well reasoned and soundly supported personal opinion in...
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Literary Criticism
Essentially, in Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle's 1995 essay Pleasure, they are saying that pleasure can exist in two very distinct ways when examined within literature. First, pleasure can be...
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Literary Criticism
We cannot describe structuralism in 700 words, but we can tell you about its main ideas. Afterwards, you should have little to no problem in describing it in 700 words yourself. Structuralism can...
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Literary Criticism
While no theory of literary criticism is completely objective, some theories are more subjective than others. Even though their goal might not be consistently accomplished, both formalists and new...
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Literary Criticism
Mythic-archetypal interpretation contends that there are universal symbols and motifs encoded in all literature (and, unconsciously, in human minds) across time and place. For example, "the...
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Literary Criticism
If we use Foster's analysis in terms of assessing how "It's All Political," then I think that one has to recognizes Foster's point that literature is usually composed by the people who are...
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Literary Criticism
The Romantic Movement, out of all other literary movements, in general, had the most pensive and long-lasting effect on modern criticism. And in a way, the contribution of the two major figures of...
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Literary Criticism
One can best understand Jauss’s hermeneutics as seeing it as a halfway point between two rival hermetical approaches. First of all, we have the historical approach, exemplified by Marxism, that...
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Literary Criticism
One of the major tasks of literary criticism is periodization, in other words trying to organize literary works under rubrics that not only indicate chronological sequence but also try to classify...
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Literary Criticism
In literary theory, a structure is a general term. It can refer to linguistic structure: grammar and syntax. It can refer to the structure of how signifiers (words, written and said) refer to...
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Literary Criticism
Formalism, like its name suggests, is concerned with form rather than content. Generally speaking, a formalist—whether in literature, philosophy, sociology, or other fields—argues that there is no...
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Literary Criticism
Before the revolutionary movement of new criticism, the majority of literary scholarship was of three genres, rhetorical, philological and belletristic. Belletristic writing was for a generally...
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Literary Criticism
If you read a criticism of Poe's poem "The Raven" about the light/dark motifs in which the author discusses Poe's alabaster-skinned virginal image in death against the dark, sinister...
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Literary Criticism
Northrop Frye's work on/in archetypal criticism is as relevant today as it was when he was writing, in my opinion. Together with the work of Joseph Campbell - another scholar developing Carl Jung's...
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Literary Criticism
The tone of the sentence, especially within the context of the article, is negative. The author deplores what has happened to the Olympic Games. The author, Alexander McCall argues that the Olympic...
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Literary Criticism
If I understand you correctly, you are asking about aesthetics in relation to cultural fiction and traditional literary fiction. If so, then it is first necessary to know what "classical Indian...
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Literary Criticism
There are many things you can do to make an argument strong in a paper. In light of this, let me give you three points. First, to inspire confidence that you actually know what you are talking...
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Literary Criticism
Perhaps the best way to start is to quote the whole first paragraph, since it is no too long. "I hope that the Chinese people enjoy their Olympic Games. But once they are over and everybody has...
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Literary Criticism
This is a great question. The author, Alexander McCall, is livid with what has happened to the Olympic Games. He argues that there are three major problems. First, instead of allowing amateurs to...
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Literary Criticism
Gina Wisker, as illustrated in her co-edited essay collection Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing, approaches postcolonial literary criticism (critique) through the eyes of white...
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Literary Criticism
The suggestion that the era of literary criticism has or is in the process of ending is, to paraphrase an oft-repeated quote from Mark Twain, highly exaggerated. And, the introduction of...
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Literary Criticism
In order to find useful materials on the authors, like Joseph Conrad, who wrote Heart of Darkness, you will be covering in your essay, you need to survey the existing scholarship on the topic....
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Literary Criticism
New criticism emphasized reading poems as self-contained, except for noting overt allusions to other literary works. The most extreme version of this was the “practical criticism” of I. A. Richards...
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Literary Criticism
William Deresiewicz is a literary critic who is a contributing editor for both The New Republic and The American Scholar. His work has been published in The New York Times, Slate, Bookforum, The...