Literary theory

Independent Reading Task Paper Towns by John Green Paper Towns is an award-winning novel by John Green. The novel is a story set in a small town in Orlando, Florida. The story is narrated by and follows the main character, Quentin. As the reader follows Quentin we learn about how he thinks and more importantly how much he likes a certain girl, who he hasn’t spoken to since they were kids. But one night, she leads him on an adventure until dawn and then disappears the next day. The focus of this…

After reading the “Slate” article and listening to the “Icon For Access” podcast, two opposite approaches to whether or not the international wheelchair symbol should be redesigned, I was able to learn about the affordance of different modes and the reaction each can get. Modes are methods of communicating or getting something across. Audio narration, alphabetic text, video interview, soundtrack, and image are all examples of modes. These modes can be utilized to help circulate (spread…

Summative assessment Task: Formal writing Question: Analyse how one or more written themes were used to comment on today’s society in Written texts. Word count: 1501 Statement of intent: I am going to write about how in the novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” the theme of women’s education is relating to modern day society. I will use examples from the novel and explain how they relate to both Afghanistan and New Zealand in modern day times. “A Thousand Splendid Suns” written by Khaled Hosseini…

Throughout all of the novels we have read this year, each one has taught me that literature can always have a deeper meaning. Different writings can all have different meanings around the world, or even to the person standing next to you. There is such a variety of interpretations of literature. Through reading “A Streetcar Named Desire”,“Hamlet”, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, the main theme that stuck out to me was that tough, emotional experiences can have an effect on characters’ minds…

and conducting literary research. This course has allowed me to have a different perspective on literature. In the beginning of this course I was uneasy about analyzing literature because I felt I would not comprehend the material. Now, my viewpoint has altered I feel more confident in analyzing literature. Since, I have learned various strategies for reading a work of literature. As I read the literature I searched for something deeper within. For instance, learning about literary devices…

Shawn Khan Mrs. Mikowski Hamlit 11 1 Feb 2012 Literary Periods Text Analysis In the song “The Dog Days Are Over” by Florence+ The Machine, the text gives rise to the idea of Realism. Realism is generalized with having an objective narrator, and leaves the reader to interpret the story in his or her own way. This occurred after the Civil War when Post War writers focused on creating works that did not idealize people or like transcendentalism. Basically, writers wrote truthfully…

Found texts are comprised of various genres that contain a plethora of categories, but in particular, receipts. Receipts have increasingly gained recognition over time for a multitude of reasons. Similarly to greeting cards, receipts have a formulaic appearance which makes them recognizable and visible to the public eye. A receipt obtained from Hard Rock Cafe resembled the pieces by Dennis Baron, Roland Barthes, and David Levy. Receipts have become a powerful measure of determining emotional,…

Many novels are open to various interpretations, The Plague by Albert Camus is an example of a novel through which different levels of meaning are created within its pages. The book represents many interesting and contrasting levels of literary works containing both fiction and non-fiction, literal and figurative as well as concrete and metaphysical. Different readers of the novel have various understanding of the text depending on their viewpoints and believes. ‘The Plague is neither deeply…

farmer's daughter named Anne Hathway. A church called Holy Trinity also has records of his three children that were baptised there. Due to the fact that there is so little information on him during the Lost Years, people started making stories and theories about why he was so quiet. One of the most famous tales of him was him having to, “flee from Stratford after being caught poaching deer in Sir Thomas Lucy’s deer park” (Chrisp 1). There is not much evidence to back this up. Maybe this is the…

How to Read Literature like a Professor Essay John Henson 09/25/17 Period 6 In the book “How to Read Literature like a Professor” many forms of literature are used to get the reader to understand why some of them are used and how to use them in certain situations. Terms such as Irony, allusion, symbolism, etc. are used in this book to get the reader to understand the way a professor writes literature and comprehend all of the terms themselves. For example the book…