Is New Journalism a literary genre? Analyse with reference to the literary techniques used in two examples of New Journalism. Word Count - 2231 I suppose the most common sense point at which to start is by defining New Journalism‚ or Literary Journalism‚ as Eisenhuth and McDonald (2007‚ p. 38) say it is called at the “upper end of the spectrum.” The Collins Concise Dictionary (1999‚ p. 995) defines New Journalism as “a style of journalism‚ using techniques borrowed from fiction to portray
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Historical Criticism for Night and Ru “Literature is deeply mired in its time.” (Gillespie‚ 1) This is the most basic way that a critic could describe the theory of Historical Criticism. In this theory‚ literature is interpreted not simply as a part of the writer’s oeuvre‚ but as literal reflection of the time period it was written. For instance‚ if we were to study a personal memoir like Night or Ru using this criticism‚ we would take the proverbial step back with a less empathetic approach‚ rather
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Commentary on the Reader Response Method of Literary Analysis Reader response criticism raises the question of where literary meaning resides- in the literary text‚ in the reader‚ or in the interactive space between text and reader. In other words the text itself has no meaning until it is read and interpreted by the reader. This analysis can take into account the strategies employed by the author to elicit a certain response from readers. It denies the possibility that works are universal (i
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Marxist criticism is a type of criticism in which literary works are viewed as the product of work and whose practitioners emphasize the role of class and ideology as they reflect‚ propagate‚ and even challenge the prevailing social order. Rather than viewing texts as repositories for hidden meanings‚ Marxist critics view texts as material products to be understood in broadly historical terms. In short‚ literary works are viewed as a product of work (and hence of the realm of production and consumption
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Reader Response Criticism: William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” “A Rose for Emily” was written in first person point of view. The narrator is never given a name‚ but it is apparent to the reader that the narrator is one of the townspeople. This is evident in the opening of the story when the narrator exposits that‚ “our whole town went to her funeral” (Faulkner‚ “Rose” 90). This story tells the tale of Miss Emily Grierson in psychological order‚ beginning with her funeral (as a flashback) and
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Literary Merit. While the process of establishing literary merit is difficult‚ it is the only method currently available to separate work that has significant cultural value from work that is ephemeral and essentially worthless. A work is said to have literary merit if it is a work of quality‚ this is if it has some aesthetic value or some sort of philosophy concerning beauty and art. Literature must provide a reader with historical information and relevance to ones life while using interesting
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select the winner of Nobel literature award every year‚ said that “We talk in the same way about everything which is published‚ and literary criticism is poorer for it. Literary criticism and teaching were limited today.”[ Flood Alison “Nobel judge fears for the future of western literature” theguardian.com‚ 7 Oct 2014 ] Both of them considered the limitation of criticism. Therefore‚ Said claimed that the text should be worldly‚ they are to part of the social world‚ human life and the historical moments
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Stephanie Ihekwoaba English 3341—Fall 2013 Monday‚ October 21‚ 2013 New Criticism Analysis of The Crate (Francis Ponge) VS. A Dog After Love (Yehuda Amichai) As defined by the editors of the Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms‚ mentioned in a handout given by Professor Tomás Q. Morin‚ New Critics have the ability to “treat a work of literature as if it were a self-contained‚ self-referential object‚” rather than intently evaluating a poem on the basis of the reader’s emotional
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Feminist and Womanist Criticism of African Literature: A Bibliography By Sharon Verba July 20‚ 1997 Those women who struggle without giving up hope‚ herald the impending change...: change in attitude for both men and women as they evaluate and re-evaluate their social roles.... -Rosemary Moyana‚ "Men & Women" Rereading‚ willful misreading‚ and de- and re-coding are tools used in African literature and womanist or feminist discourse to challenge "canonized ’literature ’"
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focus of this essay‚ to determine what seem to be ’objective’ features of ’New Criticism’‚ will be based on three poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The first poem in this study ’ "Over the dark world flies the wind" ’ and the one which I shall pay particular attention to‚ is a poem of ten lines and is purportedly the type of lyric which David Buchbinder like Graham Martin suggests lends itself best to this type of literary theory: Though the new critics were careful always to signal that their use
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