Critical Theory Cheat Sheet Donald E. Hall. Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications. Houghton Mifflin‚ 2001. Theory Formalism /New Criticism 1920’s forward Reader Response Rhetorical Analysis Marxist/Materialist Analysis Psychoanalytic Analysis Key Ideas -analysis of literary structures (genre; character‚ plot‚ setting‚ etc.) -rejected literature’s historical and biographical contexts -intrinsic meaning of texts; literature expresses
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News Article On Culture In the United Kingdom‚ sociologists and other scholars influenced by Marxism‚ such as Stuart Hall and Raymond Williams‚ developed Cultural Studies. Following nineteenth century Romantics‚ they identified "culture" with consumption goods and leisure activities (such as art‚ music‚ film‚ food‚ sports‚ and clothing). Nevertheless‚ they understood patterns of consumption and leisure to be determined by relations of production‚ which led them to focus on class relations and the
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Tangled Up in New Bob Dylan and Intertextuality Appropriation has always played a key role in Bob Dylan’s music. Critics and fans alike have found striking similarities between Dylan’s lyrics and the words of other writers. On his album “Love and Theft‚” a fan spotted many passages similar to lines from “Confessions of a Yakuza‚” a gangster novel written by Junichi Saga. Other fans have pointed out the numerous references to lines of dialogue from movies and dramas that appear throughout
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Modernism and Post Modernism in Literature Modernism in Literature Literary Modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ mainly in Europe and North America. Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse. Modernists experimented with literary form and expression‚ adhering to the modernist maxim to "Make it new." The modernist literary movement was driven by a desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express
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A feminist approach to Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” When hearing about Toni Morrison’s novel‚ “Beloved”‚ one may imagine it as being another story about a slave’s life. And this is not wrong. “Beloved” does tell the tales of many slaves. It tells of whippings‚ rape‚ hard work and escape. But‚ while drawing this image of the historical aspect of enslavement and black culture‚ Morrison also tells the personal story of a very strong female slave. Morrison’s novel focuses mainly on the female characters
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Chapter two Books: Perceiving Women‚ The First Sex‚ Identity: A Reader Part I Within today’s western world‚ women are often subjected to critical analysis and study when they are portrayed within the media and other influential forms of communicative channels. They are portrayed as objects of desire for the eye of the public and thus sex is a tool to attract customers. The consequence of this is that is can represent women as sex objects‚ provide unrealistic beauty standards and disregard
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Monique Wittig’s works‚ The Lesbian Body (1975) and “One is Not Born a Woman” (1980)‚ might seem similar to Cixous’s‚ in that she engages in a political project designed to create a non-phallogocentric discourse‚ but she turns to “lesbianization” rather than bisexuality. She posits an opposing model to the heterosexual mode of language that transcends the categories of sex and gender‚ and she calls it the “lesbianization of language”. She claims that‚ saying‚ “lesbian is the only concept I know of
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Feminist theories have emerged as early as 1792 (– 1920’s) in such publications as “The Changing Woman”[10]‚ “Ain’t I a Woman”[11]‚ “Speech after Arrest for Illegal Voting”[12]‚ and so on. “The Changing Woman” is a Navajo Myth that gave credit to a woman who‚ in the end‚ populated the world. Footnote with citation. In 1851‚ Sojourner Truth addressed women’s rights issues through her publication‚ “Ain’t I a Woman.” Sojourner Truth addressed the issues surrounding limited rights to women based on the
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Formalism and New Criticism “Formalism” is‚ as the name implies‚ an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text. The work of the Formalists had a general impact on later developments in “Structuralism” and other theories of narrative. “Formalism‚” like “Structuralism‚” sought to place the study of literature on a scientific basis through objective analysis of the motifs‚ devices‚ techniques‚ and other “functions” that comprise the literary
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The aim of this essay is to compare and contrast post-colonialism and post-structuralism as theories of international politics‚ by providing an explanation of the basic principles of each theory and an analysis of the similarities and differences. The first part of this essay will explain the basic principles of post-colonialism and post-structuralism as theories of international politics in order to examine the differences and similarities between these two approaches. In the second part of
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