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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caring • Confucianism‚ with its dual emphasis on learning and tradition‚ • Confucius believed that the best way to train for government service was by reading great literature from the Chinese canon—at that time‚ this comprised works of verse and historicism written during the Zhou dynasty. • Confucius’s other teachings emphasized morality and virtue‚ without linking them to spirituality; Confucianist and Daoist philososphies similiarity: (Check) • Like Confucianism‚ Daoism asked its followers
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In Reflections of the Revolution in France‚ Edmund Burke intellectually attacks the French for the occurrences that took place in their country during the late 1700s. Burke was strongly opposed to immense political reform. In this book‚ he voices his belief that it is counteractive to try new types of government because it can lead to the loss of the progress achieved by the past generations. Thus‚ he argues that all men are subject to a generational contract that embodies beings from the past‚ present
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Steven Brust once wrote: “In my opinion‚ the proper way to judge a novel is this: Does it give one an accurate reflection of the moods and characteristics of a particular group of people in a particular place at a particular time? If so‚ it has value. Otherwise‚ it has none.” (Brust‚ Steven. 2005. Sethra Lavode). Brust‚ quite clearly has joined this debate regarding literary theories. He claims that if aspects of literary piece‚ aside from its own merits‚ are not significant then it has no worth
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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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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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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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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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