Each individual has his or her own criticism of literature‚ judging the book by the cover defines each reader unliterary or literary. As we read literature do we as a reader go in so much depth‚ that we look at each angle of the book and acknowledge the beauty of art by the authors. The book by C.S Lewis‚ An Experiment in Criticism is based on the critics of literature that involves the type of readers by the type of readings. Lewis is an author who is recognized for his contribution to children
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JOSEPH ANDREWS BY HENRY FIELDING Q Write a note on social criticism as presented in book I and book II of this novel. This novel is basically a satire on mode of living of the social classes of 18th century. The most promising and solid features (as a means of social criticism) that one might extract from the novel‚ in the light of book I and book II are highlighted as below: Artificiality of love Here the example of lady booby explains the point clearly. She loved Joseph as claimed by herself
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이예지 백정국 Literary Criticism 2014. 10. 28 Lisel Mueller’s Poem “Things” with New Criticism New Criticism is a methodology which argues that literature is independent and criticizes only the text itself without any background‚ such as its relevance to any information about author or the situations of the time period when it was written. In this paper‚ I try to analyze and find the poetic beauty of Lisel Mueller’s poem “Things” by using the perspective of New Criticism. First of all‚ what can be found
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Social Criticism in William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake criticises child labour and especially society that sees the children’s misery but chooses to look away and it reveals the change of the mental state of those children who were forced to do such cruel work at the age of four to nine years. It shows the change from an innocent child that dreams of its rescue to the child that has accepted its fate. Those lives seem to oppose each other and yet if one reads
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Essay of ‘New Criticism’ Approach and its Application on Jake Allsop’s “Gossip” Aditya Rizky Ramatio Yuni Astuti Edwin Yogi Andrean Laksmi Nuraningsih Literary Criticism Wednesday‚ 13.00 – 14.40 p.m. ‘New Criticism’ Upon close examination of these discussion questions‚ a distinct pattern or methodology quickly becomes evident. This interpretative model begins with a close analysis of the poem’s individual words‚ including both denotative and connotative meanings‚ and then move to a discussion
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The Praises and Criticisms of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Ever since its publication in 1951‚ J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye has served as a firestorm for controversy and debate. Critics have argued the moral issues raised by the book and the context in which it is presented. Some have argued that Salinger’s tale of the human condition is fascinating and enlightening‚ yet incredibly depressing. The psychological battles of the novel’s main character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ serve as
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Criticism of Masculin Feminin film of Jean-Luc Godard written by Furkan Safak After World War II‚ the world was in a transition area from warfare to “Cold War” ‚the period in which countries tried to establish themselves as a new form of ”republics“ rather than “empires”. We would have rights to say that there was three main parts of the world two of which were actually ”sides”. Those sides were unquestionably capitalism and socialism‚ better to call the U.S and USSR. Those two sides were
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Harry’s conversations with the seemingly sentient Headmaster portraits that adorn Hogwarts’ walls‚ for example‚ would likely be deemed an abnormal experience of a visual-auditory hallucination based upon the cultural and experiential norms of the Muggle‚ Western psychiatrist. Yet‚ the “othering” and stigmatization
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Post-Apocalyptic Hierarchies: A Marxist Criticism of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road The storm of post-apocalyptic novels has taken much of the literary world by storm in the past century or so. This does not stop just there‚ of course‚ it branches so far into other media that the storyline of a human life following the collapse of the world as we know it is not at all an unfamiliar one. Movies‚ video games‚ and the traditional books have all taken their own look at this interesting offshoot of (science)
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The book ‘The Animal Farm’ is a cleverly written book by George Orwell‚ which was first published in 1945. The time in which the book’s happenings play is not very specific‚ but can be concluded to the early 20th century in a farm house of rural England. In this book George Orwell describes the negative sides of communism by using different animals on a farm to substitute the different ranks and positions of people in a communist country. This fictional story features quite a few main characters
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