Feminist literary criticism

Everybody during their spare time, especially a young child who is in the process of barely discovering who he/she is, has different interests regarding the type of topics and genres they enjoy reading. I had the pleasure of interviewing, for this particular project, a family oriented, ten-year-old female named Selena Dominguez. After questioning her I discovered that, although not a fan of reading, she does enjoy reading fiction books filled with fantasy and adventure. Two books that I will be…

to bring to light and analyze paramount issues of a particular time period. Critic Harold Bloom claimed that no aspect beyond aesthetics, or influence should be considered when determining whether a work or text is great or worthy of being in the literary cannon. This essay will specifically delve into Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and how it completes preceding works in classic Greek Tragedies. In the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the main character Onkonkwo, can easily be…

What does each of the three authors suggest is the appeal of “getting famous”? Atwood suggests the appeal of fame is in receiving attention and love from the audience. In Text 1, the character uses her admired voice to be “courted” by spectators. In response, she has “bouquets… thrown to it”, “money… bestowed on it”, “men [falling] on their knees before it”, and “applause [flying] around it”. Thus, Atwood’s protagonist wants fame to be celebrated. In Text 2, Smalley suggests fame is not only for…

According to George P. Landow, canonization can be assigned to a relic of great books, narratives and other classical text considered by scholars to be the most important and influential texts of the western culture. It is also a method which speaks among race, ethnicity, class, and gender. Edmudson point out in his book that “it was the belief in great writing that thirty years ago made me become a teachers”(Edmudson 1). He deduces that great writing is written in English by great white…

This essay looks to discuss my assumption that the best interpretation of a work of literature is the author’s intention for the work, as it is the basis for the work. This paper criticises this assumption as it does not allow for a sufficient understanding of literature and since there is no way to prove that there is a best interpretation. The paper offers a new assumption to alleviate these problems which states that a set of interpretations which have sufficient textual evidence are the…

How do poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon present their ideas of war in their poems, Exposure and Does It Matter? Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two famous war time poets, who conveyed their first-hand experiences of war through the form of poems to enlighten people towards the reality of war, as shown in “Exposure” and “Does It Matter?”. Exposure is an emotionally powerful poem that expresses the reality of the brutal weather conditions that were endured by the soldiers in the…

The texts we will focus on are Walter Benjamin's essay, The Task of The Translator, and Paul De Man's commentary on it. Benjamin. During the period of Romanticism, translation was divided into two sorts : creative, and mechanical. It was also the industrial revolution and Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), like many translators, was really fond of mechanical translations. This German philosopher wrote The Task of The Translator in 1923, as an introduction to his translation of Baudelaire, Tableaux…

Emerson’s argument, like that of many authors in The Norton Anthology, centers around the nature of the Poet; what they are and what they are not. The argument for the nature of the Poet as a sort of translator for humanity provides the basis for Emerson’s essay. Starting out, he states that The Poet “sees and handles that which others dream of” and imparts it to the rest of humanity (Emerson 621). The nature of the Poet is representative, he is attuned to something the common man is not, and…

not only what was being said but why, why exactly did the author make note of that specific detail, of that specific quote or turn of phrase, what significance did that have on the author, and the memoir as a whole? I struggled with this style of literary analysis and I would say that to a degree I’m still struggling with it. As a reader we all struggle with the impulse to take the words at surface level, anything more takes a certain level of effort that often in our fast paced lives we aren’t…

I am going to summarize and analyze the novel named ‘’The Crying a Lot’’. This novel belongs to Thomas Pynchon who is one of the best in postmodernist literature. I will explain 1960s period, short summarize of book and communication problem in the novel. Firstly I want to start with short entrance about the period when Thomas Pynchon wrote this novel. He is an American postmodern novelist. His novels contains lots of question. It was written in the 1960s. In this decade there were lots of…