English 441 New Criticism Explained Beginning in the 1920’s and coalescing in the 1940’s‚ an interpretative approach emerged that did not define literature as essentially the self-expressive product of the artist nor as an evaluative reflection or illumination of cultural history. These "New Critics" opposed the traditional critical practice of using historical or biographical data to interpret literature. Rather‚ they focused on the literary work as an autotelic (self-contained) object. The New
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Exploitation of Teenagers as Reflected in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Coolie Our Indian society is far better than the rest of the universe from the point of view of culture as well as conventions and ways of living but on the other side‚ if we glance into our society‚ it has many social and political and economical evils such as bride burning‚ dowry system and dowry death‚ corruption in educational system‚ problem of illiteracy in India‚ domestic violence‚ communalism‚ injustice
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The entire purpose of this documentary The Untouchables was to seek an answer to an abbreviated question: why has no Wall Street executive been criminally prosecuted for fraud tied to the sale of mortgages. But the unabbreviated question and the one that infuriates us as Americans is: why has no executive of a major Wall Street firm been criminally prosecuted for anything. Containing interviews with top prosecutors of the DOJ‚ government officials and industry whistleblowers‚ Frontline reports allegations
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New Criticism [pic]New Criticism is a name applied to a varied and extremely energetic effort among Anglo-American writers to focus critical attention on literature itself. Like Russian Formalism‚ following Boris Eikhenbaum and Victor Shklovskii‚ the New Critics developed speculative positions and techniques of reading that provide a vital complement to the literary and artistic emergence of modernism. Like many other movements in modern criticism‚ New Criticism was in part a reaction against the
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A novel is a long prose narrative that describes fictional characters and events in the form of a sequential story‚ usually. The genre has historical roots in the fields of medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter‚ an Italian word used to describe short stories‚ supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century. Further definition of the genre is historically difficult. The construction of the narrative‚ the plot‚ the relation to reality‚ the
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Sociological criticism examines literature in the political‚ economic and cultural context in which it can be either written or received. It looks at the sociological status of the author to evaluate how the profession of the writer in a milieu affected what was written. It analyzes the social content of literary works culturally‚ economically and politically. Sociological criticism also examines the role the audience has in shaping literature. A view of Shakespeare might look at the economic position
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In the novel Great Expectations‚ the author Charles Dickens uses the first person narrative throughout the novel. The first person narrative is the main character‚ Pip. However‚ in this book the first person narrative comes in a retrospective form‚ with Pip looking back on his life. The retrospective point of view is key in this story for the reaction of the readers to the plot. In Great Expectations‚ the retrospective first person point of view makes the main character Pip unreliable‚ makes the
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New Yorker editor‚ and lifelong Dickens reader‚ gives us the 10 best books from the master. For more on the book‚ check out our Q&A with Gottlieb. Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels‚ and in an ideal world everyone would read all of them. (Well‚ maybe not – Barnaby Rudge is a tired and tiresome historical novel that the young Dickens kept putting off writing until contractual obligations forced him to finish it.) His first published book was Sketches by Boz – a collection of short pieces that
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Critical Analysis The story ‘The Lost Child’ is very emotional. The author Mulk Raj Anand has brought before us the bustling and fervent movements during the festive season in a village. The setting is a village street where the seasonal fair was going on during spring with groves and flowering mustard field near the street. The story dates back sometime before the contemporary period. There were people riding on horses on roads and others sitting and carried in the bamboo and bullock carts.
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Oedipus accepts the fate‚ as well‚ and gouges his eyes out‚ exiling himself from Thebes. Although generally accepted as a play of fate‚ many people have made criticisms against this claim. One critic in particular‚ Kurt Fasso‚ in his criticism “Oedipus Crux‚” believes this fate was not truly Oedipus’ – he just accepts it as his own. His criticism is valid‚ for it touches on points that do in fact prove his theory‚ in a single persuading and convincing piece‚ particularly concerning the discrepancies
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