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    the light of Mikhail Bakhtin who was a Russian philosopher, literary critic and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. He mentions the importance of time and space, characterizations, settings and language in his definition of novel. These major ideas have become classic tools in literary criticism. These tools are the key concepts in the terms of discussion of the Jane Eyre with the Bakhtin’s theory. Initially, I am going to explain Bakhtin’s ‘’epic and…

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    by whom the reader is. Lewis argues, to distinguish between a good book and a bad, we must therefore not refer to how the book is written but by how it is read. Throughout the book, Lewis discuss’ his theories about why that is true, starting by separating the readers into two groups, one the “literary” and the other the “unliterary”. He processes by outlining a few of the differences between the two types of readers. The book then goes forward by defining what good literature is “But in…

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    incredibly helpful when evaluating the tripartite psyche because Wright thoroughly analyzes the id, ego, and super-ego. In addition, the article will be sufficient for other terms within the psychoanalysis literary criticism because Wright discusses how linguistics applies to each of the other theories. Her input will be helpful especially considering the diction Don DeLillo uses throughout White Noise for characterization and major…

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    Shakespeare's play, The Tempest, the idea of the abuse of power is a reoccurring theme that emerges throughout the play. While reading The Tempest, one notices that Shakespeare often uses literary theory to reveal the theme much more. By looking at many literary theories, one specifically being postcolonial theory, one can see the harsh abuse of power, which most readers don’t see; this is important because it shows not only what was happening then but what is happening today. To begin with, in…

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    Literary Canon Analysis

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    Literary Canon The literary Canon should not be abolished, but simply modified and modernized to suit the changes that have occurred in the world. The Canon was usually associated with the literary work of white Europeans, but after the 1980s changes occurred as the work of African Americans and women became more stage centered sparking a debate about the canon. The core of the canon comes from the literary works of the 19th century and that core should remain constant as the foundation, but it…

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    studying the roots of colonialism in the Renaissance and its influence on the modern world. In my second year of undergraduate study, I was introduced to postcolonial literature and theory in an introductory course with Dr. Stanka Radović. Reading polemic texts, as well as ‘subalterns’ writing back or breaking away from the literary canon, made me aware of the political aspect of literature and the political forces that shape both the writing and reading of literature. It awakened a new…

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    TASK 1 : ESSAY Discuss the application of relevant theories of literary criticism in the selected text. Literary criticism from my point of view can be defined as the art or practice of judging and commenting on the qualities and characteristics of various literary works. Modern critics tend to pass down the concerns of earlier centuries, such as formal categories or the place of moral or aesthetic value. Some analyse texts as self-contained entities, in segregation from external factors,…

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    admitting that feminism and narratology would seem to be strange bed-fellows, the one being “impressionistic, evaluative and political” , the other being “scientific, descriptive and non ideological”. Indeed, no contemporary theory has exerted so little influence on feminist theory as formalist-structuralist narratology . Author posits that there are many reasons for this distrust of narratology on the part of feminism.First and foremost reason that is discussed is that the complex and…

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    In her scholarly article “Why I’m Still Writing Women’s Literary History”, Professor Devoney Looser astutely asserts that women’s literary history is a field that is alive and thriving and therefore deserves to be treated as such. Her argument centers around addressing concerns expressed by various colleagues of hers that the academic field of women’s studies is now “passe” due to taking a “separatist” approach. Looser explicitly states that her article is therefore “a credo that has its origins…

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    There are several theories on the reading process and these different theories give different set of controls to the reader. But one thing is evident that there is no denying that the reader plays a role greater or equal to that of the author in realizing a text. Wolfgang Iser in his essay 'The Reading Process- a phenomenological approach' talks about how a text stays a text and doesn’t become a literary work until someone reads it. He talks about several parts of a work that remain blank until…

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