Literary agent

Source Critique Paper Published in 1995 and written by Lee Patterson, the article Literary History aims to both explain and criticize the way in which the history of literature has been understood since its ideological conception. More precisely, Patterson primarily focuses on literary history through an extrinsic approach, which he defines as “the relation of literature, as a collection of writings, to history, as a series of events.” By approaching the topic in this way, he is able to evade…

Bode, Rita. "They … Should Be Out of It: The Women of Heart of Darkness." Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 26.1 (1994): 20-34. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 69. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Criticism Online. Web. 29 Feb. 2016. Rita Bode Looks at Heart of Darkness from a female role and mentions that women in the novel are just as important as the men. The men have their own little groups in which they rely on and so do the woman in an equal manner,…

Authors throughout history have utilized our senses to connect the reader to the characters in the novel in a symbiotic relationship. Without our connection and relatability, the impact of the struggles a character faces would not be the same on the reader. This is held true for Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. Chopin employs auditory allusions to foreshadow the fate of the protagonist Edna Pontellier. These small breadcrumbs of allusions placed throughout the novel lead us down the path of…

Crimson Peak by Guillermo Del Toro is a visually stunning and technical masterpiece. It has taken me a while to perceive it as that. As a viewer who has been exposed to the trailer before watching the movie, I left the theater disappointed and wanting more out of this horror movie. It wasn’t till plenty of research that I found that Crimson Peak is in fact not a horror movie. Correct, but is it any surprise that the director of Hellboy, Pan’s Labrynth, and the Devil’s Backbone, was able to…

Compare and Contrast The two stories A Secret Sorrow by Karen Van der Zee and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin can be seen to have contrasting qualities. Primarily, A Secret Sorrow conveys a cliché love story of a woman, Faye; who can’t have kids and is scared of being a disappointment to her soon to be husband, Kai. However, they work out their issues, adopt kids, and live happily ever, “in the low white ranch house under the blue skies of Texas…” (Zee 37). Second, A Sorrowful Woman is…

critical lens to the schools of criticism that he does not agree with. For example, he states “By a reading, I mean the application of an analytical vocabulary- Marx’s, Freud’s, Foucault’s, Derrida’s, or whoever’s- to describe and to judge a work of literary art” (1). Using the formalist school of criticism, he is trying to denounce the importance of intertextual school of criticism. He does not want people to criticize reading, but it is still a part of the education system, and that it would…

When I took the AP Language and Composition course my junior year of high school, I scored a three on the exam. As a student who always enjoyed English and did well in the subject, this was a low point, but . However, I still loved literature and knewI still wanted to become an English major at college. That is how I ended up in Dr. Clermont-Ferrand’s “Introduction to English Studies” class. Looking back at my work throughout this course, I noticed that I have a slight preference in applying…

There are many literary devices writers throughout history have utilized. One of the most powerful, yet complicated literary device is irony. Irony occurs when what a reader expects to happen is the complete opposite of the actual outcome. Irony helps illustrate humor especially in the works “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain and “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor. “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a framed narrative that tells the tale of Jim Smiley…

detached. It is as if it is the only way the narrator can deal with the tragedy is to become distant from what is happening. Frost uses many literary devices to make this poem striking. Immediately, allusion can be found in the title of the poem itself. Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea. Allusion is often taken from literary…

In literature, authors usually depict flat characters by using indirect or direct characterizations and don’t give them conflict. Rather depict the characters as uncomplex or simply uninteresting. However, flat characters can often be glimpsed over, but serves as a “magic casement” which reveals their true purpose in the main conflict of the story. These magic casements are revealed, specifically in Chinua Achebe’s contemporary novel, Things Fall Apart, follows the story of a headstrong clan…