Literary theory

answer to this question may appear simple and in Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery” the satire is obvious. By using literary criticisms readers can evaluate more in depth what the story is actually trying convey. Two major literary criticisms that will discussed in detail are Psychological Theory and Historical Criticism and New Historicism. Psychological Theory basically deals with the psychological aspect or the mindset of a person. The second criticism is Historical Criticism and…

race, gender, and power and so using these theories a creative writing piece can be formed. In fact, one can make a song, poem, or novel inspired from one of these theories: psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, queer theory, marxist theory, historical criticism, postcolonial and critical race theory, and reader response theory, and have their work tailored to it. Moreover, that person can also create plots and characters that portray that specific theory or a combination of…

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…

Although it did not begin to receive a great deal of attention until the mid-1900s, the literary criticism of feminism has origins as far back as the 1700s. At the time, women were beginning to receive more attention for the work that they were doing. Feminism, as a literary theory, examines the ways that literature reinforces or combats the oppression of women in society as a whole. While examining how culture is inherently patriarchal, feminism looks to cement the importance of women into…

Mapping Project: Fadlan and Battutah In Franco Moretti’s, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History, in a chapter titled, “Maps,” Moretti notes that “there is a very simple question about literary maps: what exactly do they do? What do they do that cannot be done with words?” and “Do maps add anything, to our knowledge of literature?” (Moretti, Maps, 35). In this essay, I hope to explain the significance of maps in both Ibn Battutah’s, The Travels of Ibn Battutah and Ibn…

his comical nature helps him gain the sympathy of all but Prince Harry, whom he shares a seemingly genuine friendship with. Shakespeare reveals the lack of sincerity in Hal and Falstaff’s friendship through two major literary devices: metaphor and meter, along with other minor literary elements. Throughout the first part of Henry IV, the sun is used as a recurring metaphor for Hal. In his famous soliloquy after conspiring with Falstaff and the other highwaymen about the Gadshill robbery, the…

In the introduction to his book Museum of Words, James Heffernan discusses and contrasts a few possible definitions for ekphrastic literature. Ekphrasis is most generally thought of as “the literary representation of visual art” (1), but after considering what multiple other scholars have said about this concept and genre of literature, Heffernan proposes his own definition “simple in form but complex in its implications: ekphrasis is the verbal representation of visual representation” (3). He…

slight preference in applying outward theories over inward theories and that my strength lies in writing clear thesis statements, but I do need to work on my proofreading, transition sentences, and time management. Before I started this course, I knew absolutely nothing about the…

Lorde implies that protecting and providing for them the best that one can should be a priority that is acted on, not just talked about. Speaking about putting them first and doing it are two very different things as are "...poetry and rhetoric...." (1030) Poetry is metrical composition in verse that uses figurative language, symbols, metaphors to help express aspects of internal and external realities in some meaningful way. The key is the meaningful way. Poets, as well as all artists, want…

“The Veldt” is a short and twisting story written in 1950 by Ray Bradbury about the Hadley family who lives in a futuristic world that ends up “ruining human relationships and destroying the minds of children” (Hart). The house they live in is no ordinary home, Bradbury was very creative and optimistic when predicting future technology in homes. This house does everything for the residence including tying shoes, making food, and even rocking them to sleep. The favourite room of the children,…