WRITING AN ACADEMIC BOOK REVIEW Writing a book review may be an unfamiliar exercise‚ it is not as complex a task as writing an essay requiring a lot of library research. It is‚ however‚ not the same as a book review in The Age‚ which is written for the general reader. Your book review is written for a reader (your lecturer or tutor) who is knowledgeable in the discipline and is interested not just in the coverage and content of the book being reviewed‚ but also in your critical assessment of
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938E-7CC3C79F6FC2/0/notes_on_close_reading.pdf What does it mean to read a text closely and analyze it? Why do we do close reading in literary study? The answers to these questions emerge more from the doing than the talking. Briefly‚ close reading is a basic tool for understanding‚ taking pleasure in‚ and communicating one’s interpretation of a literary work. The skills employed in close reading lend themselves to all kinds of cultural interpretation and investigation. Close reading takes
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that it is better to accept death than to ignore it through the accounts of Miss Emily’s journey. William Faulkner’s story takes place in the South‚ during a time period of racial discrimination and major political change. By using reader response criticism‚ a reader can analyze “A Rose for Emily” through the aspects of the secret held within the story‚ race found through anthropology‚ and gender found through anthropology. To begin with‚ one can analyze “A Rose for Emily” by examining the underlying
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Response By: John O’dea I have chosen a reader response criticism for Catch-22‚ because I believe it gives me the freedom to interpret‚ and explore the book on the freest and most personal grounds. It gives me the opportunity to look inward and contemplate the thought provoking scenes occurrences in Catch-22 on my own terms‚ and then allows me to relate these findings to fellow peers and readers. A reader response criticism complies with my beliefs of Literature‚ in that everyone who reads
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Evaluating fiction is not based on which piece of literature is a better story‚ or was written by a more profound author‚ instead‚ literature can be loosely evaluated by two main judgments. First‚ each piece should be reviewed as to how fully it connects to the central purpose‚ or theme of the work. Each element of the story should contribute to the central theme in a well executed story. Second‚ each work should be judged by how powerful the purpose is. This can cause differing judgements between
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Virginia Woolf was an English author. She was a feminist‚ publisher‚ essayist and critic. Woolf commonly acquired female authors Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte. Woolf analyses women and their struggles as artists‚ their position in literary history and need for independence in her works of literature. Woolf’s short story “Angel in the House” has a deeper meaning then just a female author sharing pointers and stories on how she succeeded in her career to another woman trying to become a successful
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may be completely different. In Letters to a Young Poet “Letter One” Franz Kappus a nineteen-year-old student‚ wrote a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke‚ in the pursuance of criticism‚ he strive for critique of his poem. However‚ Rilke refuses to criticize the young military born poet‚ but rather denounce Kappus inquiry for criticism in his poem. Likewise‚ in David Mitchell fictional excerpt solarium from “Black Swan Green”‚ Jason Taylor a thirteen-year-old boy from England‚ who’s profound affection toward
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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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the essay "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics"‚ the author‚ J. R. R. Tolkien explains how Beowulf is portrayed as a historical document‚ rather than that of a work of art as he argues. The main argument of his paper is that Beowulf is “poor in criticism” as this would affect the way the reader would interpret the text. Tolkien argues that many of the interpretations are incorrect as they make us analyze the text historically versus analyzing is from an artistic point of view. Tolkien’s essay ultimately
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efferent stance. The reader could enjoy reading complex mathematical theorems (aesthetic reading)‚ whereas for others reading mathematics could be a torturous task (efferent reading) assigned to pass a class. In summary‚ the transactional theory of literary work‚ defined by Rosenblatt (1978) in The Reader‚ the Text‚ the Poem‚ is based on the following premises: (a) the reader reacts on the text‚ she interprets it‚ and the text produces a
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