The Purpose of Criticism: Literary criticism has at least three primary purposes. (1) To help us resolve a difficulty in the reading. The historical approach‚ for instance‚ might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators‚ despite the horrible‚ bloody details of their obviously brutish plan‚ portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time‚ we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish
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In A Stream of Illusion by Rita Carter‚ illusion is defined by things we believe are there without us receiving any outside information about it. We can also receive sensory information that does not make it to consciousness and it influences how we think or feel. This then leads to the theory of “blindtouch‚” “blindsmell‚” and “blindsight.” Blind smell‚ blind sight‚ and blind touch are all sensory intakes. They allow us to sense information but at the same time we are unaware of what it actually
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BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM Biographical criticism begins with the simple but central insight that literature is written by actual people and that understanding an author’s life can help readers more thoroughly comprehend the work. Anyone who reads the biography of a writer quickly sees how much an author’s experience shapes—both directly and indirectly—what he or she creates. Reading that biography will also change (and usually deepen) our response to the work. Sometimes even knowing a single important
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Mongol Invasions” as well as the pertinent humanitarian concerns best illustrated by renowned historian Ibn al-Athir‚ criticisms regarding the religious legitimacy and negative humanitarian impacts of the Mongol Invasions are valid assessments. The first controversy surrounding the impact of the Mongol invasions is whether or not their motives were legitimate. Much of historian criticism suggests that the religious and ideological beliefs of the Mongols that compelled them to action were both extremist
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William Ivy Hair.‚ Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 (Louisiana State University Press‚ 1976). William Ivy Hair’s Carnival of Fury elaborates on the life of Robert Charles and the events leading New Orleans to the race riot of 1900. Hair quoted newspaper articles printed during Charles’ life to include society’s reaction and provide a white-Southern perspective of African Americans. Hair’s original objective was to uncover what Charles experienced
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access the Disney company website at http://disney.go.com/home/today/index.html and spend at least fifteen minutes navigating the site. Answer the following questions based on the information available online. 1) Identify three different revenue streams generated by the Disney Company. 2) What types of ancillary products can be purchased on the company website? 3) Does the website give some indication of Disney marketing strategies? 4) Do you think the Disney website is a
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How Consciousness Works Consciousness is being aware of what is going on around you and inside you. Many philosophers have struggled to understand consciousness. Now with greater technology in our hands we are able to understand it better. When you dream you are in an altered state of consciousness. Some people try to achieve the state of altered consciousness with drugs or more natural ways like meditation and hypnosis. There are three main types of consciousness. Consciousness as sensory
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What’s wrong with the cogito? 1) Is there a questionable hidden premise? Most criticism is of the cogito in its earlier format: “I think therefore I am”‚ in the Discourse on Method. 1) The hidden premise: (First raised by Lichtenberg) I think Thinking things exist Therefore I am 1 What’s wrong with the cogito? 1) Is there a questionable hidden premise? The hidden premise: I think Thinking things exist Therefore I exist This premise is questionable -Does the existence of thoughts necessarily
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from the individual and familial to the communal‚ national‚ political‚ and spiritual. Stylistically‚ the novel moves easily between the language of documentary reportage and a richly metaphorical language‚ and between straightforward narrative and stream-ofconsciousness exposition. This astonishing variety in Kogawa’s novel can‚ at times‚ become bewildering and unsettling to the reader. But as many readers and critics have noted‚ Kogawa’s style and method in Obasan also constitute the novel’s unique
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Consciousness According to Webster’s Dictionary “consciousness is the part of the mind that makes you aware of your actions as being either morally right or wrong; a feeling that something you have done is morally wrong.” If one were asked to explain consciousness would they be able to explain it? Many intelligent people have spent years and years trying to fully understand what it is. People like Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud‚ and even functionalism theorists have come extremely
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