New Criticism VS Reader-Response Criticism What is more accurate‚ new criticism or reader response criticism? The answer is neither‚ seeing as both styles of critic views and analyzes the topic at hand and gives feedback. Though both styles offer feedback‚ they are different forms of feedback entirely. New criticism involves focusing on the material at hand‚ and not what it was meant to be perceived as‚ to judge the topic by every measurable feature possible. Reader response criticism is when
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The word criticism is derived from the Greek word meaning " judgment". Hence‚ criticism was known to be the exercise of judgment on works of literature‚ or it can be said that criticism is the play of mind to observe the merits and defects on the work of literature. A critic ‚ therefore‚ is a person who expresses judgment on works of literature or poetry or the art of an artist or a painter. The critic is also defined as a person who is possessed of the knowledge necessary to enable him to pronounce
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This page intentionally left blank A HISTORY OF FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature‚ fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism‚ leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the Middle Ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards‚ and analyses the
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Literary criticism is when an author critiques the qualities and attributes of literacy. Oftentimes authors use this mechanism as a form of tone‚ symbolism‚ imagery‚ and even to allude to the bigger picture. In the Honest Trailers the critics use gender‚ reader response‚ and empowerment criticism to explicate a particular point. In many films and other popular culture‚ blondes are usually stereotypically portrayed. They are exhibited as pretty girls who are not the sharpest tool in the toolbox.
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THE CONTRIBUTION OF MARXISM TO THE STUDY OF LITERARY CRITICISM It is evident that Marxism has made great contribution in the study and criticism of Literature‚ there is need to explain a little bit on Marxism before we discuss its contribution. Marxism is a social and political theory based on the works of Karl Marx and his followers‚ associated with the socialist and communist movements‚ these works mainly are Manifesto of the Communist Party and the German Ideology. It should be understood
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John Crowe Ransom and Michel Foucault are two well-known critics who attempt to offer explanations of who an author is. Using their texts Criticism‚ Inc. and What is an Author‚ this essay aims at highlighting how these critics define the concept of an author and how each enhances our understanding of it. In Criticism‚ Inc. Ransom argues that proper criticism of a text is one in which the ethical and historical aspects are eliminated and instead focus given to the text itself. In this case‚ Ransom
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ENG1501/101/3/2014 Tutorial letter 101/3/2014 Foundations in English Literary Studies ENG1501 Semesters 1 & 2 Department of English Studies IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This tutorial letter contains important information about your module. ENG1501/101 CONTENTS Page 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 3 2 PURPOSE OF AND OUTCOMES FOR THE MODULE ...........................
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Role of the Author: New Criticism and Poststructuralism This paper studies the role of the author from the perspectives of New Criticism and Poststructuralism. The nature of the two critical approaches must be elucidated before the discussion. According to ‘The Norton Introduction to Literature’‚ New Critics’ critical practice is to demonstrate formal unity by showing how every part of a work contributes to a central unifying theme. Every part is related to the whole and the whole is reflected
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Literary Theory and Criticism and Its Relevance Today Literary criticism is primarily the evaluation of the importance of a particular work or body of work on such grounds as: the personal and/or cultural importance of the themes and the uses of language of a text; the insights and impact of a text; and the aesthetic creation (or‚ performance) of the text; mainly as these areas are seen to be reciprocally dependent‚ supportive or inflective. The word ’criticism’ has ordinary-use negative connotations
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Unreliable Narrator From the perspective of how figures of speech help to characterize in Love is a Fallacy An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose credibility has been seriouly compromised in fictions (as implemented in literature‚ film‚ theatre‚ etc). It is a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty‚ misleadingly biased‚ or otherwise distorted‚ so that it departs from the “ture” understanding of events shared between the reader and the implied author. The discrepancy between
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