Feminist literary criticism

Md. Milad Hussain Tom Wells History 1301 November 08, 2015 Book Project of “Isaac’s Storm” Discussion points for description factual are not limited to such questions as supportive or inconsistent with the writer, debating the book's rightness, or taking a position on polemical issues. Just as for imaginative writing, readers carry their personal personality to the books that they are investigative. What is clear and…

DeLillo, Don, and Mark Osteen. White Noise: Text and Criticism. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1998. Print. This criticism contains the complete text of White Noise along with several critics’ opinions on the novel at the end. Critics such as John Frow, John Duvall, and Albert Mobillo address the diction, themes, and metaphysics throughout White Nosie. The book also includes Tom LeClair’s interview with DeLillo, which provides valuable information as DeLillo explains his thinking while writing…

that of the author in realizing a text. Wolfgang Iser in his essay 'The Reading Process- a phenomenological approach' talks about how a text stays a text and doesn’t become a literary work until someone reads it. He talks about several parts of a work that remain blank until a reader comes into scene and makes the literary work continuous and alive. Wolfgang Iser explains the reading process in detail talking about the author’s mindset while writing and reader’s state of mind while reading a…

TASK 1 : ESSAY Discuss the application of relevant theories of literary criticism in the selected text. Literary criticism from my point of view can be defined as the art or practice of judging and commenting on the qualities and characteristics of various literary works. Modern critics tend to pass down the concerns of earlier centuries, such as formal categories or the place of moral or aesthetic value. Some analyse texts as self-contained entities, in segregation from external factors,…

Wolfgang Iser’s essay The Reading Process: A Phenomenological Approach, delineates the author-reader relationship in completion of a literary work, where the author plays the ‘artistic’ role, which is that of the creator of the text, and the reader plays the ‘aesthetic’ role, which, he mentions is the process of the ‘realization’ of the text . (Iser 279) He refers to Roman Ingarden’s “Intentionale Satzkorrelate” (Intentional sentence correlatives), where the interaction of the otherwise…

The short story chosen was taken from the book titled Malaysian Short Stories (Fernando, L. (Ed.), 2005). I chose to write on K.S. Maniam’s short story- The Dream of Vasantha. The Dream Of Vasantha depicts a hardworking widow and her dream of seeing her son be a humble yet successful person. Maniam plotted the story with an introduction of Vasantha’s daily routine of washing clothes at the houses of Mr. Pillai and Mr. Ganda Singh. Vasantha reminisces the death of her husband too. As Vasantha…

Amit Chaudhuri is a versatile writer of contemporary Indian English Literature. He depicts domestic life, gender roles and social relations. His works reflect the Indian values and Bengali sensibility. Chaudhuri’sFreedom Song is about the family afflicted by old age. The young people are doing all kinds of things that are perceived as idiosyncratic. It deals with ordinary people’s consciousness. The old couple, Khuku and Shib live in Calcutta. The novel chronicles the lives of Bhola and his…

In her scholarly article “Why I’m Still Writing Women’s Literary History”, Professor Devoney Looser astutely asserts that women’s literary history is a field that is alive and thriving and therefore deserves to be treated as such. Her argument centers around addressing concerns expressed by various colleagues of hers that the academic field of women’s studies is now “passe” due to taking a “separatist” approach. Looser explicitly states that her article is therefore “a credo that has its origins…

In C.S. Lewis’s An Experiment in Criticism, Lewis attempts to distinguish how good and bad readers interpret books. 'Let us try to discover how far it might be plausible to define a good book as a book which is read in one way, and a bad book as a book which is read in another” (1). Although Lewis’s essay is primarily dominated by “the many and the few,” the paramount message of the book pertains to the ego; moreover, how the literary experience heals the wound without undermining individuality.…

The purpose of this paper is to examine Walter Besant’s lecture “The Art of Fiction” in light of Henry James’ published response of the same title. I will argue that James’ is correct and warranted to critique Besant’s approach, but that James’ concerns are ultimately overstated. Besant’s lecture “The Art of Fiction” aims to defend fiction and elevate the novel among the “higher” arts. Historically, critics wouldn’t dare speak of fiction in the same breath they praise the fine arts – to even…