Literary criticism

Reading Between the Lines An author’s main purpose of writing is for their audience to receive the message they are trying to convey. Our job as the reader is to interpret the channels that are being used to help get the authors point across. Sreedhar Potarazu, uses several different tactics throughout his article “Is Social Media Ruining Our Kids?”. In this article, he brings to our attention the growing negative effects of today’s youth frequently using social media. Potarazu uses ethos,…

Although criticism must be pure and honest, like Arnold suggests, his model of literary criticism is far too ideal to be realistic. Every person sees the object differently, and truly, there is no error in that. The greatest aspect of literature is its subjectivity. The most effective model of literary criticism does not simply describe the object, it encourages others to explore the object for…

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,…

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…

The pathos and ethos of cultures are often discernable in literary narratives as expressions of the sentiment of approval or disapproval. Thus, the impact of literary narratives on cultures cannot be understated; the arts do impact and influence culture in both positive and negative ways. This is not a new phenomenon and can be observed in cultures as early as 6 Century B.C. and can be traced throughout human history. An example of this can be seen in Homer’s Odyssey, in which there are certain…

is one way to analyze the text, but also not just what they are saying but, how they are saying it. To determine how they are portraying their message means to identify and examine literary devices are utilized. The structure in which the author writes is one way to convey what the author is saying but also the literary devices used such as a metaphor. When analyzing the Upanishads we see how the author uses metaphors and when analyzing Herodotus we see how the structure of how it's written…

texts they wrote. Foster showed that everything you have read may or may not resemble only what it refers to be but it may also hold a deeper meaning that helps give structure and reason to the novel at hand. Throughout the book Foster revealed the literary devices classical authors had used in their…

The discussion part of the article is going to be divided into three parts. The first part of the analysis is the deconstruction and the constructions of meanings behind the representation of Vibina’s character in Saints graphic novel by using the theory of social positioning and agency. The analysis on this part shall focus on the utterances produced by the characters and thevisual representations of the story. The second part of the analysis will be based on Kress and Van Leewuen’s…

The literary point of view of any novel or screenplay is an important characteristic because it gives either adaptation ambience towards the characters or how the story is structured. It also describes the character’s position in relation to the story and his/her outlook in regards to the attitudes and events that revolve around them and supporting characters in the storyline. Mildred Pierce, a 1941 novel written by James M. Cain and later adapted into a film noir screenplay directed by Michael…