Pick a short story: Pick a critical approach “Hills Like White Elephants” Feminist Criticism “A Goodman is Hard to Find” Psychological Criticism “My Parents’ Bedroom” New Historicism “Where are you going‚ Where have you been?” New Criticism/ Formalism “A&P” Marxist Criticism “The Yellow Wallpaper” “Cathedral” Pick one of the short stories listed and write a literary analysis using one critical approach (limited to those discuss in this class only and listed on your syllabus). You will be
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graphic arts. It is characterized by sinuous‚ asymmetrical lines based on organic forms; in a broader sense it encompasses the geometrical and more abstract patterns and rhythms that were evolved as part of the general reaction to 19th-century historicism. There are wide variations in the style according to where it appeared and the
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employee Evey needs a hero most‚ V arrives. V is the newest anarchist on the block‚ with unusual powers‚ a mastery of martial arts‚ and extreme intelligence‚ V delivers the very thing Britain needs: freedom. When analyzing V for Vendetta through a New Historicism lens‚ viewers discover the nature of goodness and cruelty along with the need for anonymity‚ and finally it shows contemporary societies fear of totalitarianism government. The Gunpowder Treason and Plot: a historical attempted bombing of Parliament
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The kitchen holds a lot of memories in our lives. From the time our parents nested us a home‚ mother and father had cooked or dined with the family in the kitchen. The walls of the kitchen have many stories to tell and memories to keep. If only it could talk about the memories from the heating stove‚ the clay jar of water‚ the plates‚ the sink‚ the table‚ and all the meals. Truly‚ the kitchen is a cherished place. When I was younger‚ I remember my two widowed aunts tidying up the kitchen. They
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contemporary global relevance of criticism‚ I conclude by pointing out the difficulty of transcending local conflicts‚ drawing on a recent case concerning the politics of space in the Wye valley. Keywords William Wordsworth‚ ethics of criticism‚ New Historicism‚ ecocriticism‚ “Tintern Abbey” The New Historicist turn of Romantic studies in the 1980s has produced some fresh interpretations of William Wordsworth’s poetry. The Leftist obsession with local‚ particularly traumatic‚ historical and economic
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Introduction to literary theory Theory Kind of speculation‚ it’s analytical Interdisciplinary discourse (debate) with effects outside an original discipline (Culler) Critique of common sense‚ of concept taken as natural What is literature? Elusive term (always changing) Modern sense – 200 yrs old Prior to 1800 literature was „memorized“ not interpreted In fiction the relation of what speaker say to what authors think is always a mater of interpretation Dictionary: imaginative or creative
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Cultural materialism has become an influential discipline in recent years‚ particularly so in ’Renaissance’ studies‚ but also more generally in ’English’‚ as well as departments defined as practising ’cultural’ or ’communications’ studies. The phrase is usually linked with the name of Raymond Williams‚ but a cursory examination of Williams’s own work quickly establishes that it is a phrase he rarely uses‚ and only schematically attempts to define. The thesis therefore takes the form of an investigation
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they go hand in hand. All criticism involves theory‚ and all theory involves criticism. Due for Wednesday: Bedford definition essay and skim essays Each school or type of criticism ---- online Selected theories for Persepolis New Historicism-examines the text as a product of the time period in which it was produced -identifies the work within the cultural and political movements of the time Iran during the revolution Feminist Criticism-examines the role of women writers and characters
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Compared to today‚ there are some elements in “King Lear” that don’t seem that foreign to us. For example‚ betrayal and loyalty are two things that are shifted around today and where maybe even more present in the past‚ as a king had to be on his guard. This includes his family‚ as we can see from the story. The 1st act of “King Lear” starts the whole problem of the play‚ where Lear says (1.1.56-57) “which of you shall we say doth love us most‚ That we our largest bounty may extend.” Today‚ we don’t
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Jan R. Veenstra‚ in his examination of new historicism‚ draws upon Greenblatt and his “poetics of culture‚” which determines the strong relationship between literary and historical texts and their socio-historical contexts. Greenblatt’s cultural poetics fosters the concept that texts are not merely a documentation of the social and political forces that make up history and society‚ but they also contribute remarkably to the social processes that refigure individual identity and the socio-political
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