Critic

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1950’s. Pop art came out in Britain and The United States culture. The origin of the name “Pop art” is unknown but it’s often credited to a British art critic named “Lawrence Alloway”. In Lawrence Alloway’s essay titled “The Arts and Mass Media”, even though he would not exactly use the words “Pop” and “Art”, he was one of the high level critics to approve Pop Art as a legitimate art form. Characterized by bold, simple and everyday imagery and vibrant block colors, helped to narrow the divide…

Taste in beauty is a subjective thing and every person has a different taste. However, Kant and Hume view differently on the taste of beauty. Hume claims “every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.”(268-269) Whereas Kant thinks even though taste in beauty is subjective, people are still demanding others’ agreement. Thus, taste in beauty is subjectively universal. Hume defines the standard of taste as “a rule, by which the carious…

The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for bringing a color of romance back into the dark times of New England. The critics are either keying in on how this novel stands out from the rest, or saying he is not giving enough information for this even to have a story. The Scarlet Letter has lead to be one of his most popular works by many critics emphasizing his style of writing to be like “nothing they have came across” this is why Hawthorne became such an well known author…

For example, the critics who adapted a supernatural view had their explanation of what really happened in revivification scene. As Terry Heller's has suggested," The epigraph asserts that the will is mysterious, that God is a great Will pervading all things, and that man…

Friedrich Nietzsche strongly opposes the Socratic way of thinking. Socrates wanted to eliminate all remnants of myth and tragedy in modern culture and replace it with an age of reason where the theoretical man has the most power. The theoretical man wishes to reveal all of the world’s secrets before him because he is following Socrates’ belief that “knowledge is virtue”. Nietzsche opposes this idea for two reasons: the elimination of myth and tragedy from the world will make us unfulfilled as a…

Another important aspect of the first wave critic’s view of non-oppositional resistance is the idea of colonial ‘hybridity’. Bhabha presents ‘hybridity’ as a reimagining of a term that previously had been used to “imply that different races were different species” and instead argues for a new imagining of ‘hybridity’: a production of ambivalence and the means through which the colonise may defy their subjugation. He proposes that hybridity can therefore be seen as a form of non-oppositional…

had ever produced? That is why “[biographical] critics have supported the idea that the highest literary art is pure form, untouched by gossip or personal emotion” (Mays 1312). If Disney created the best film known to man, any other film would not compare and could never stand against that worldly acclaimed film. Frozen brings up a great point in regards to feminism, but this film is best fit with biographical criticism based on the Honest Trailers critic…

Colvert, Colvert discusses some of the critics’ views of Stephen Crane. One of these critics called him a very bad writer for his usage of language in a way in which he seems to end up at the extremes of writing. “Many of the critics also described Crane as a writer with a very eccentric style. According to Colvert, many of the readers during the early 19th century were not used to the…

Majority of the critics believe that the theme was the pursuit of the American Dream. The critic Bern argues that the American Dream is solely about greatness instead of personal freedom or financial success (Combs 60). More so, Dickstein agrees with the theme of the American Dream. Dickstein believes that the dream stands for “material success, not emotional expansion.” The purpose of Gatsby’s money is to enable him to reel backwards, to freeze time and undo the past (DB). Another critic who…