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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
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
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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Arts
To [critically and analytically] talk about literature means knowing the language of criticism. [And] each critical [approach] has its own manner of speaking .... The forms of [literary] criticism...
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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...
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A History of Russian Literature
Here I good article to see!! Introduction: Russian Formalism Saussare's ideas caught on most rapidly in Russia, where of course the Revolution had overthrown bourgeois lifestyles and conceptions....
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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
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...
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William Shakespeare
The works of William Shakespeare are voluminous, and include many of the most respected, and produced, plays in history. As voluminous as Shakespeare’s work, however, are the academic and...
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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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The Road
The first step to writing a reader response to a novel is to develop a thought reacting to it or an emotional response to it. There are several avenues of consideration that might elicit a...
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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
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
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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William Wordsworth
I edited down the original question. I think that both thinkers would see their role as being equally influential. Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated so openly on so much in terms of defining...
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth
I think that a feminist form of literary criticism might be helpful in illuminating points of strength in Painter's portrait of Truth. Certainly, one of the most interesting aspects of Truth's...
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Romanticism
I don't think that Hulme found a home in either movement. His desire to develop Imagism arose from the idea that prior movements failed to accurately speak of the condition of what is. Hulme felt...
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Literary Criticism
I study my topic form the perspective of one critical views or theories. I took an example from Dick Gregory,s eassy tittled on "Shame". according to Freudian psychoanalytic criticism it is a good...
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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
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
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...
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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
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
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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The Awakening
I think that Foster would point to the idea of "It's More Than Just Rain or Snow" as being a large part of Chopin's work. In this case, the use of water becomes significant. Edna's sense of...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Marxist Literary Criticism
I think that 20th Century literature has been influenced by the thinking and writing of Karl Marx. Marxist thought in terms of the shifting relationships between individuals and wealth has helped...
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Abraham Maslow
I think that Maslow is relevant to the idea of psychology in literature because of his stages of development. The notion here is that human beings feature different needs in different contexts....
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Don Quixote
I think that there is much truth to the idea that all stories are Quixotic. If we appropriate the ideas out of Cervantes' work in their most basic element, these notions fit all literature....
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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...
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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
“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...
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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....
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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
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
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
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...