15-16 During 18C‚ and by the Romantic period (19C)‚ lit began to refer only to imaginitive works. 17 Utilitarianism and early industrial capitalism are dominant in England. State reacts to working class protests with “brutal political repressiveness”. The literary work is seen as spontaneous and creative‚ unlike society‚ and ‘poetry’ as an idea has political force. 18 But the creative artist and his ideals were isolated from society‚ and it was only at the time of William Morris “that the gap between poetic
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Competition in A Separate Peace In John Knowles’s novel A Separate Peace‚ Knowles describes a life-changing sequence of events‚ as seen by Gene Forrester‚ which takes place at Devon Boarding School. Gene constantly finds himself struggling to find the truth about his relationship with Finny. Peter Wolfe states that the novel‚ “cries to be read in the context of original sin‚” and Novels for Students references that‚ “the real struggle is fought in the hearts of the characters‚ not on the
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INTRODUCTION Young Goodman Brown is one of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne written in 17th century. It dwells on the depravity of mankind even on those who are born in a state of grace. Also his grandfather John Hathorne is one of those slayers in Salem Witch Trials. He changes his surname as he is ashamed of what his ancestors have done and wants to hide this relation. Hawthorne addresses the puritan and calvinist belief by showing the characteristics of the damned people of his time
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Anie---------- Your friend‚ JESUS. Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars such as Viktor Shklovsky‚Yuri Tynianov‚ Vladimir Propp‚ Boris Eichenbaum‚ Roman Jakobson‚ Boris Tomashevsky‚ Grigory Gukovsky who revolutionized literary criticism between 1914 and the 1930s by establishing the specificity and autonomy of poetic language and literature
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contribute to and/or maintain structures to enforce h ierarchy. Structuralism is used in literary theory‚ for example‚ "...if you examine the structure of a large number of short stories to discover the underlying principles that govern their composition...principles of narrative progression...or of characterization...you are also engaged in structuralist activity if you describe the structure of a single literary work to discover how its composition demonstrates the underlying principles of a given
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The Joseph Narrative: Literary Analysis and the Role of God The Joseph narrative can be found in the book of Genesis chapters 37-50. It is slightly interrupted “by the story of Judah and Tamar (Gen. 38) and by the so-called Blessing of Jacob (Gen. 49:1-28)” (Skinner‚ 438). The story of Joseph is seen as unique because it has different characteristics than its counterparts in Genesis. Other writings in Genesis seem to be short‚ brief incidents‚ about family and tribal affairs. The Joseph narrative
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English 102 6 February 2013 “Snapping Beans” Analysis The poem‚ “Snapping Beans” ( rpt. in Michael Meyer‚ The Bedford Introduction to Literature‚ 9th ed.[Boston: Bedford‚ 2011] 782)‚ by Lisa Parker‚ is about a student who came home from school to visit her grandmother. When asked by her grandmother how school was going‚ the student reveals that she likes it there even though she knows that her grandmother would not approve of her friends and what they talk about. The narrator uses figures of
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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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Gerard Genette: Structuralism and Literary Criticism What is structuralism? How is it applied to the study of literature? Structuralism (Structuralist Criticism): It is the offshoot of certain developments in linguistics and anthropology. Saussure’s mode of the synchronic study of language was an attempt to formulate the grammar of a language from a study of parole. Using the Saussurian linguistic model‚ Claude Levi-Strauss examined the customs and conventions of some cultures with a view of
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Gervanna Stephens Instructor – Mrs. Lucinda Peart ENGL331 – Literary Criticism 6 December 2011 Feminism and its function in a critical reading of the short stories The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the poem “Poem in Praise of Menstruation” by Lucille Clifton. The Feminist movement began as an attempt to underscore the despotism of the patriarchal society that is reflected exceedingly in literature and permit women to be established as
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