Literary theory

Shakespeare's stance on the value of a woman and a man's masculinity has been widely debated throughout many years. Though, many of Shakespeare's works portray a strong female character that has superiority in matters of love and portrays the male as unreliable and are made out as fools (Thrasher 40), however, this portrayal is not consistent throughout every piece of work. It can be inferred that Shakespeare's wavering stance on gender roles and who holds the power is stemmed from his…

Literature is not the easiest thing to comprehend. At most, it may be one of the most complicated readings to understand. Authors create their own piece of art, referred to as literature, which creates a hidden message. Will we ever know that message? We, the readers, will most likely never know what the true meaning is in a piece of literature written by whom is not ourselves. We can only make assumptions about the message the author displays. There is no definite answer. Readers often analyze…

Carissa Beck Writing About Literature Jessica Roberson 2/18/18 The Lottery Many people pick stories with themes and symbols that smack them in the face. It is true that these are nice to read because it does not take much brain power to understand every bit of what is going on. Other people, however, may enjoy a book the is more of a hidden gem, with meanings just as hard to find as the story itself. Many people claim that Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery” to be a hidden gem. “The…

One of the distinguished literary theory 's brought forth by Aristotle is the theory of the tragic hero. A comprehensive definition of this theory is a character whether in film or book who makes a judgment error that leads to the character’s own destruction. For this question I will be looking at Joe Paterno and why I consider him to be an excellent example of a tragic hero. I will break down his story as a tragic hero in parts as illustrated in the class notes. Tragic Hero Part 1: The first…

V.S. Naipaul, a Trinidad-born British author of Indian origin is an eminent commonwealth writer. He has been recognized as a literary giant, one of the finest writers in the English language today. Rootlessness and alienation form the dominant themes of Naipaul’s best novels. His novels show his obsession with the lot of the Caribbean people – their displacement, exile, dispossession, alienation and isolation. He analyses how the colonial experience of displacement and the consequent experience…

receive distinctive facets of the argument. Elliot’s repeated emphasis on the necessity of tradition and culture may have been a response to modernity. Several critics argue that Elliot’s ideologies initially acquired influence from F.H Bradley’s theories of experience, and Maurrasian political…

paper entitled “Odysseus’ Scar and the Question of Literary Form,” I concluded that wartime autobiographical writings—including letters, diaries, testimonies, oral histories, etc.—is a literary genre that successfully mediates the personal and the documentary, the contemporary immediacy and the broader history. This second position paper is an extension of the first one, looking into the tricky nature of autobiographical texts as a fragmentary literary genre. It argues that while fragmentary…

to this theory is that “women as readers” are consumers of solely male produced literature and oftentimes men hypothesize femininity, providing false pretenses surrounding the true nature of women (Showalter). A few prominent theorists and works are Charles Bressler, author of Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, Toril Moi and her essay “Feminist Literary Criticism,” and Elaine Showalter’s “Toward a Feminist Poetics.” The common motive behind the feminist literary…

Gender Performativity: Reading Mahasweta Devi?s Draupadi and Luisa Valenzuela?s Other Weapons In this paper I propose to read and discuss two short stories, Luisa Valenzuela?s Other Weapons and Mahasweta Devi?s Draupadi under a comparative spectrum. This apparent unlikely comparison from two distinct social, political, linguistic and cultural paradigms, as diverse as Latin America (Cuba?) and Bengal, is the result of my curious attempt to decipher Laura and Dopdi on the lines of Judith…

‘Collective Unconscious’ codifies the literary allusions, myths and symbolisms of the poem to form…