NEW CRITICISM Introduction New Criticism The name New criticism came into popular use to describe this approach to understanding literature with the 1941 publication of John Crow Ransom’s The New Criticism. This contains Ransom’s personal analysis of several of his contemporaries among theories and critics. Here he calls for an ontological critic (one who will recognize that poem is a concrete entity) like Leonardo Da Vinci’s “”Mona Lisa”. In New Criticism‚ a poem can be analyzed to discover
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Oedipus accepts the fate‚ as well‚ and gouges his eyes out‚ exiling himself from Thebes. Although generally accepted as a play of fate‚ many people have made criticisms against this claim. One critic in particular‚ Kurt Fasso‚ in his criticism “Oedipus Crux‚” believes this fate was not truly Oedipus’ – he just accepts it as his own. His criticism is valid‚ for it touches on points that do in fact prove his theory‚ in a single persuading and convincing piece‚ particularly concerning the discrepancies
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Literary Criticism (Written report) PSYCHOANALYTICAL APPROACH IN LITERATURE Psychoanalytic literary criticism refers to literary criticism or literary theory which‚ in method‚ concept‚ or form‚ is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic reading has been practiced since the early development of psychoanalysis itself‚ and has developed into a heterogeneous interpretive tradition. As Patricia Waugh writes‚ ’Psychoanalytic literary criticism does not
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Task: In "The Long and The Short and The Tall" Willis Hall uses irony and stereotyping to confound our expectations and make us change our opinion. Show how the playwright has used these techniques in the play to put across his message. "The Long and The Short and The Tall" written by Willis Hall is about a group of conscripts from Britain during the Second World War. They are in the Malayan jungle on the lookout for Japanese activity because they are expecting an invasion. They stop to rest in
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Being Tall There are certain advantages and disadvantages of being tall but let us look them from different aspects. The first aspect is the physical advantages and disadvantages of being tall. Being tall is useful in several cases. For example‚ it makes it easier if you have to stand on the bus because you can reach the hand-rail or it helps if you are in a crowd because you can see over people’s heads. It can also help you in reaching the top cupboards
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of Literary Criticisms? * New Criticism / Formalism - This type of criticism concerns itself with the parts of a text and how the parts fit together to make a whole. Because of this‚ it does not bring in any information outside of the text: biography of the author‚ historical or literary allusions‚ mythological patterns‚ or the psychoanalytical traits of the characters (except those traits specifically described in the text.) * Archetypical or Mythic – This type of criticism looks at traditional
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1. Would our view of the events change if we began the story from the Police officers’ perspective? Chris Hurley was the subject of target in the movie documentary ’The Tall Man’. Cameron Doomagee’s supporters positioned the viewers on their side of the story and made it seem as if Chris Hurley was responsible for Cameron’s death. They did this by negating all of the police officers insight into the problem. 2. Which voices do you find most convincing? Why. Cameron Doomagee’s de facto
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Formalism and New Criticism “Formalism” is‚ as the name implies‚ an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text. The work of the Formalists had a general impact on later developments in “Structuralism” and other theories of narrative. “Formalism‚” like “Structuralism‚” sought to place the study of literature on a scientific basis through objective analysis of the motifs‚ devices‚ techniques‚ and other “functions” that comprise the literary
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Composition II Melissa Juchniewicz Feminist Criticism 2/23/13 Hide the Hood Little Girl Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault is a story every child learns that is about a young girl with a red riding hood who goes into the woods to deliver some food to her very ill grandmother and in her journey she encounters a wolf who in the end wants to trick her into believing he is her grandmother. However children only enjoy a simple fairy tale for the fact of being imaginary‚ as when we were
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FORMALIST FUNCTIONALIS T OF LINGUISTICS Siti Rabiatul Noorjan bt M. Saadom Aida Zukrina bt Zulkefly FORMALIST Also known as generative linguistics “Language as a system of rules” Language is a set of sentences Description shows which sentences are in the set and which out REF ; martin 1992‚3 NOAM CHOMSKY Chomsky Linguistic Theory Structure of language formalism concentrates on the set of rules a language has (competence)‚ and not on the usage of this set when producing phrases
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