My paper was on Understanding Post-Colonial Hybridization and Syncretization in Literature and that not only do we need to understand the meanings of these words but we also need to understand the authors background and how these terms give feeling and emotion on the subject matter they are writing about. Did the author grow up on the colonizers side or the colonized? This impacts the way he/she views both sides and their surroundings. I also talk about the meaning of diaspora and orientalism
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Two different readers can interpret any text completely differently. This may be due to their age‚ background‚ quality of education and social status. On the other hand even a males and a females understanding may differ. Similarly with art‚ the author of any piece creates it with the intention of evoking a rare and unusual emotion in every person to create an effect. In this case‚ it is more about what the audience receives from this play and how they construe the act themselves. All of this applies
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vocabulary randomly. The third is pretentious diction. Some of bad writer usually use foreign words and expression to decorate their articles‚ which makes the articles become pretentious. The final is meaningless words‚ especially in art criticism and literary criticism. George Orwell argues that these articles always make any sense. Not only the writers don’t know the substantial content in their articles‚ but also the readers. Additionally‚ in some political writing‚ it is difficult to define some
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Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone in a sometimes negative‚ sometimes intelligible‚ (or articulate) way. The judger is called "the critic". To engage in criticism is "to criticize". One specific item of criticism is called "a criticism" or a "critique". This article provides only general information about criticism. For subject-specific information‚ see the Varieties of criticism page. Criticism can be: directed toward a person or an animal; at
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but rather because the teacher was easy and the course was dumbed down. But when I walked in A.P. English 11‚ I felt uneasy and nervous. I knew “sailing through” was not going to work‚ and that I’d actually need to put a lot of effort in the course. The literary criticism paper was introduced to us in the beginning of the year‚ and everyone was anticipating it. Fast forward 9 months and the assignment is staring at me in the face. The assignment itself was put off to the side so blatantly that many of us simply forgot about it
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Paper on "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker Cross Cultural Literature 4/14/08 The book "Approaching Literature in the 21st Century" by Peter Shackel and Jack Ridl is filled with various themes involving parents and their children. There are three specific stories that focus on mothers and daughters that I will use for this paper. The stories are Daughter of Invention by Julia Alvarez‚ Everyday Use by Alice Walker and Two Kinds by Amy Tan. These stories are similar in many ways in general‚ like
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NOTES ON TRANSLATION CRITICISM sources: House ‘Quality’‚ House Model‚ Newmark Textbook A criticism of a translation is different from a review of a translation. Review = comment on new translations‚ description and evaluation as to whether they are worth reading and buying Criticism = a broader activity‚ analysis in detail‚ evaluating old and new translations ‚ assuming that readers know the translation Translation criticism should take into account all the factors and elements in the process
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Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work‚ in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author or the content and form of the work. Although literary theory has long paid some attention to the reader’s role in creating the meaning and experience of a literary work‚ modern reader-response criticism began in the 1960s and ’70s‚ particularly in America and Germany‚ in
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disconnected from reality but uses these day-dreams to cope with everyday situations. This literary work captured my interest because Walter ‚ who is introduced as an average American‚ would escape his ordinary everyday life by resorting to elaborate day-dreams and fantasies. The overall theme of this literary work was imagination‚ in which we‚ as the reader‚ dove into Mitty ’s day-dreams. This literary work reminded me of many of times that I have jumped into a day-dream during a particular event
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perceiver as a maker of reality) - reader criticism became recognized as a distinct critical movement only in the 1970s - less a unified critical school than a vague collection of disparate critics with a common point of departure - “Reader Theory” “audience theory” neutral terms - reader-critics take the existence of the reader as a decisive component of any meaningful literary analysis – as Michael Riffaterre puts it‚ “readers make the literary event” - “narratee” = the person to
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