for testing‚ just wanna be member.Literary criticism is the study‚ evaluation‚ and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory‚ which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals. Though the two activities are closely related‚ literary critics are not always‚ and have not always been‚ theorists. Whether or not literary criticism should be considered a separate field of inquiry from literary theory‚ or conversely from book reviewing‚
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‘Structuralism and Literary Criticism’ - Gerard Genette Structuralism is a way to examines a literary text to arrive at their meaning‚ rather than the actual meanings of the text themselves. It is a study of structure wherever they occur. In the essay Genette analyses content‚ logics‚ grammars and semiotics. He is considering structuralism as a method to study literary criticism. In the beginning of the essay Genette is establishing difference between Bricoleur and Engineer‚ Art critic and Literary critic and
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10 Literary Criticism approach An Overview of Approaches The Three-fold Purpose of Criticism: To help us solve a problem in the reading. To help us sift between and resolve conflicting readings. To enable us craft interpretative‚ yet scholarly judgments about literature. 1. Historical / Biographical Approach: Historical / Biographical critics see works as the reflection of an author’s life and times (or of the characters’ life and times). H/B approach deems it necessary to know about the
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There were many interesting facts in the Upfront Magazine “The New Face of America.” The first one I found was that other races outnumber caucasian races‚ “The Census Bureau announced last spring that minority births-Hispanic‚ black Asian‚ American Indian‚ Native Hawaiian‚ Pacific Islander‚ and Alaska Native-now outnumber those of non-Hispanic whites.” Living in a region with dominantly white people‚ I didn’t realize that we made up less than half of our country’s population. Another interesting
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Feminist literary criticism Throughout the years‚ women have struggled for proper treatment and life style. They were oppressed and seen a male property. They were deprived for their simplest rights‚ even putting their thoughts into words. This situation led to the emergence of feminism‚ which is a set of ideologies that were meant to defend women’s rights in different areas of life‚ in other words it is the struggle for women’s rights. This set of ideologies‚ feminism‚ extended into
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In this psychological literary criticism of On the Lake‚ by Olaf Olafsson‚ the characters Margret and Oskar will be analyzed. The main conflict is the determining of Oskar’s character; the question that keeps Margret unsettled until the climax of the short story. Throughout the short story‚ Margret subtly questions her husband’s character. She often compares Oskar to her father. “She had mentioned it before‚ and Oskar hadn’t hidden his opinion that her father’s rules had no place in their home”
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In Perry Westbrook’s literary criticism on Kurt Vonnegut‚ Westbrook states that Vonnegut emerged as one of the most influential and provocative writers in America during the 1960s. He supports this point by using examples of stories written by Vonnegut and giving a summary of each story he provides. Westbrook also talks about recurring ideas and themes in Vonnegut’s stories and Vonnegut’s ideals. The first point he brings up is how Vonnegut describes himself as a total pessimist and his stories
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or subliminal messages hidden inside of kids movies and books. However what is the point in these hidden objects if the story isn’t even understood itself and it hasn’t been viewed in a different literary lense? The movie “The Lorax” could easily be used with any of the four lenses of literary criticism. The story is most likely going to be viewed by Marxist critics because the dictators and leaders in the movie and how they impact the story much more significantly than the others. The story has
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Pragmatic Literary Criticism Pragmatic criticism is concerned‚ first and foremost‚ with the ethical impact any literary text has upon an audience. Regardless of art ’s other merits or failings‚ the primary responsibility or function of art is social in nature. Assessing‚ fulfilling‚ and shaping the needs‚ wants‚ and desires of an audience should be the first task of an artist. Art does not exist in isolation; it is a potent tool for individual as well as communal change. Though pragmatic
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particularly thought-provoking. It may seem merely unexamined documentation of the confusion of its main character‚ a confusion which itself has become a bit of a cliché. The conventional wisdom about first generation Asian Americans is that an awareness of two cultures is a kind of curse which makes them unable to understand who they "really" are‚ as if identity were nothing more than cultural identification. Read with an understanding of the significance of the Gogol story‚ however‚ the novel is much more
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