play. Focus on a minor character Compare minor characters in two works Comparison of attitudes in two works‚ such as acceptance of one’s approaching death Recurring motifs in a work Commentary on author’s choice of title(s) Social criticism A further passage in the style of the author Letter from a character to author‚ protesting some aspect of the character/play An editorial defending the work to a censorship committee This assignment
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Malgudi Days is a very special book‚ but it also may well be a book for special tastes. A collection of thirty-two stories‚ most of which have been selected from two previously published collections‚ An Astrologer’s Day and Other Stories (1947) and Lawley Road (1956)‚Malgudi Days offers a mosaic of a life that seems to belong to a lost time. The tone of the stories belongs to the nineteenth century‚ to the world of Rudyard Kipling and O. Henry‚ to the days when stories were expected to have neat
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When one views the book‚ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close‚ from a unique and critical lens of the Psychological and Psychoanalytic Criticism‚ an individual may better understand; the perspectives that affect the validity of the central theme‚ love and what it can do to
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which he asserts that myth today is a message not a concept‚ merely an idea nor an object. For him‚ myth is a product of speech (parole) and is defined ‘by the way it utters its message’; rather than of language (langue). In addition to literary criticism‚ Barthes wrote on music‚ art‚ cinema‚ and photography. Each field is
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multi-accentuality and of the dialogic text. Rediscovered in the West in the 1960s‚ the work of the Russian Formalists has had an important influence on structuralist theories of literature‚ and on some of the more recent varieties of Marxist literary criticism.
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world because of its meaningful themes and some moral lessons‚ this short story is also valuable since it would be a great piece of work to be analyzed in terms of literary criticism. According to the story‚ the most distinctive and outstanding literary theories reflecting from the story are feminist and psychoanalytic criticism. In this story‚ the concept of feminism is mainly portrayed via a main female character‚ Mrs. Jones. However‚ there are two characteristics of feminism shining from her.
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foreshadows this loss (intangibly sometimes) throughout the short story: "The last graveyard flowers were blooming..." (Hurst 1) and "Such a name sounds good only on a tombstone." (Hurst 1) are two instances on the first page. New Criticism or [Formalism] suggests that one should pull from the story the "universal truths" "Through ’isolated’ and ’objective reading’..." (AASU Writing Center 1) the underlying universal truth in "The Scarlet Ibis" is simply that pride will carefully
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“Let us try to discover how far it might be plausible to define a good book as a book which is read in one way‚ and a bad book as a book which is read in another” (Lewis 1). CS Lewis begins chapter one of An Experiment in Criticism changing the way books are judged. Instead of judging a book by the book itself‚ he introduces the idea of judging a book on how it is read. The book ends the book with a beautiful epilogue that captures the idea of a reader becoming more than one’s self. He ends the
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A little Learning is a Dangerous Thing: Origin and Meaning The source most often quoted as the origin of these words‚ is part of poem written by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) in his “Essay on Criticism” “A little learning is a dang’rous thing; Drink deep‚ or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain‚ And drinking largely sobers us again. Fir’d at first sight with what the Muse imparts‚ In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts‚ While from the bounded
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