LITERARY CRITICISM LITERATURE • What is literature? Literate/ literacy - able to read/write Origin- from Latin “litteratura” (letter) • literature with the small ‘l’ Literature - piece of writing/printed information on a particular subject • literature with the big ‘L’ Literature - pieces of writing that are valued as works of art eg. Novels‚ plays‚ poems (contrast to technical books/ scientific/ academic writings) • Literary - connected with literature
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Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning
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the ones who walk away from omelas. I believe The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is an example of both utopian and dystopian literature. It has elements corresponding to both types of literature although they are divided into the first and second halves of the story respectively. The author leads you on to believe that Omelas is in perfect harmony and that the inhabitants are content with their lives completely. The people of Omelas have no crime‚ sickness‚ poverty or greed. However‚ as the story
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The theme of this story "One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest" according to Daniel Woods is "Power is the predominant theme of Ken Kesey’s ’One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’: who holds power‚ who doesn’t‚ who wants it‚ who loses it‚ how it is used to intimidate and manipulate and for what purposes‚ and‚ most especially‚ how it is disrupted and subverted‚ challenged‚ denied and assumed" (http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/cuckoosnest/essays/essay1.html). No‚ it is not McMurphy who flew over the
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Literary Semiotics Quite often the terms semiotics and semiology are equal‚ so that often instead semiotics use semiology and vice versa. Ferdinand de Saussure speaks of the sign and the first makes the distinction between semiotics and semiology. Semiotics is the general theory of signs. Semiology study the functioning of the sign in the social practice. Today avoids this distinction and semiotics equate with semiology‚ ie‚ they are synonyms. GENERAL Semiotics: The sign does not exist only
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DEFINITION OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM A type of cultural criticism‚ postcolonial criticism usually involves the analysis of literary texts produced in countries and cultures that have come under the control of European colonial powers at some point in their history. Alternatively‚ it can refer to the analysis of texts written about colonized places by writers hailing from the colonizing culture. In Orientalism (1978)‚ Edward Said‚ a pioneer of postcolonial criticism and studies‚ focused on the way
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LITERARY THEORY Misconceptions about theory: 1. Theory is difficult What is difficult however is the language because most of the theorists are French 2. theory is meaningless‚ pretentious jargon 3. that we are intellectually incapable of coping with it(i.e we are at fault) 4. We take everything as gospel truth; We should question What is literary theory? Theory is a coherent set of conceptual hypothetical and pragmatic principles forming the general frame of reference for a discipline
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http://www.translationdirectory.com/article301.htm Literary Translation: Recent Theoretical Developments By Sachin Ketkar Lecturer in English SB Garda College‚ Navsari www.geocities.com/sachinketkar sachinketkar@yahoo.com Literary studies have always‚ explicitly or implicitly‚ presupposed a certain notion of `literariness ’ with which it has been able to delimit its domain‚ specify‚ and sanction its methodologies and approaches to its subject. This notion of `literariness ’ is crucial
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Jack Radke‚ currently an attorney‚ gave an insightful speech on “Ethical Leadership: The Power of One.” Mr. Radke was able to demonstrate how ethical values can affect businesses through the use of personal experiences and examples. In the beginning of the speech‚ he showed a clip from the movie Liar Liar where Jim Carrey says‚ “And the truth shall set you free.” Showing this clip set the tone for the speech and reminded me that even though telling the truth can be difficult during one’s professional
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In this essay‚ I will be discussing about literary techniques. Having literary techniques is good for the writings. There are always suppose to have a literary technique in a writing. People use certain type of literary techniques in a certain type of writing. Such as a medifor for a poem. People use literary techniques to create more dynamics by putting more excitement‚ emotions‚ and speculation. . People use literary techniques to create more dynamic by putting more excitement in
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