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    1: In the story of “A Retrieved Reformation” by O. Henry‚ the warden gives Jimmy serious advice when Jimmy is let out of prison. He tells Jimmy to live right and he is “not a bad fellow at heart”. The warden actually thinks that the criminal has a good heart‚ although physically Jimmy doesn’t display it very obviously. Jimmy’s response to the wardens advice to “stop cracking safes and live straight”‚ was sarcastic and playful‚ “Me? Why‚ I never cracked a safe in my life”. This reveals that Jimmy

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    "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils"[2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802‚ in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils. Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth’s own account)‚[3] it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes‚ and a revised versionwas published in 1815.[4] It is written in six-line stanzas with an ababcc rhyme scheme‚ like the Venus

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    UDK: 821.111.09:305-055.2"17/18" FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM IN ENGLISH LITERATURE (How does it apply to ‘Pride and Prejudice’-by Jane Austen?) Sanja Dalton1 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to express Feminist Literary Criticism in English Literature‚ as critical analysis of literary works based on feminist perspective‚ as well as to uncover the latent dynamics in a novel relevant to women’s interior role in society. Feminist Literary Criticism rejects patriarchal norms in literature

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    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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    Changes in Jimmy Jimmy didn’t ever think he would ever change‚ but maybe she would change that. Jimmy Valentine is the main character in the story A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry. In A Retrieved Reformation‚ Jimmy is a very skillful bank robber who goes through some major changes. Because Jimmy experiences some major changes‚ we know that he is a dynamic character. In the beginning‚ Jimmy is a very skillful‚ successful bank robber. He goes from being in and out of prison. The Governor released

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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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    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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    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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