New Criticism

conceptualization of life experiences and emotions. In her 3 works “Rebus”, “Moment” and “A Hand is Shaped for What it Holds or Makes”, Hirshfield’s strong Buddhist influence is revealed. As a result of Hirshfield’s vast childhood experiences from growing up in New York City, she adds…

literature intersects with “the broader intellectual agenda” of geography (Brosseau 1994: 335). In this article, Brosseau not only documents the intersection between geography and literature since the 1970s but also argues that literature can be a new object for geography. He scathingly criticises the geographers who are looking for real facts and simple descriptive catalogues in novels. Such geographers, Brosseau points out, limit their main concern to “determining whether or not novelists were…

While it is easy to criticize the new medium of film for lack of substance—Aichele and Walsh wrote that “one does not expect especially valuable insights from [film]—it is clear that audiences can learn from the morals and values taught in biblical movies CITATION (Screening Scripture p.viii). Parallel narrative techniques used by biblical filmmakers represent an excellent example of a novel format through which religious teachings could be conveyed to mass audiences; through direct, immersive…

Method Participants The study will have about 300 undergraduate university students participating in the study. Participants must be undergraduate students who are 18 years old or older. Participants will be recruited from introductory psychology courses. The compensation for participation will be extra credit for the psychology course and a $5 gift card. Participation time for the study will last six months (a semester). Design This proposed research is a correlational study between the…

Americans love watching movies especially ones that involve romance and comedy. On average Americans spend $2,827 on entertainment alone. “The Fault in Our Stars” would be one of the movies that a lot of Americans either went to the movies to watch or rented the movie. This movie is all about a girl, named Hazel, who has cancer. Her mother makes her go to these meetings for teens with cancer, and that’s where she met Augustus. Augustus and Hazel get the chance to go to Italy and meet their…

How do poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon present their ideas of war in their poems, Exposure and Does It Matter? Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two famous war time poets, who conveyed their first-hand experiences of war through the form of poems to enlighten people towards the reality of war, as shown in “Exposure” and “Does It Matter?”. Exposure is an emotionally powerful poem that expresses the reality of the brutal weather conditions that were endured by the soldiers in the…

Gender Theory is a lens that can be applied to a novel by analyzing male and female characters. It involves analyzing gender roles, stereotypes, etc. In the novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, there are different roles assigned to women and men. In the time that the novel took place in, women had the role to be obedient wives and good mothers. Men had the role to wear the pants in the relationship. Some characters in the novel conform to the roles that are given to them, but…

The texts we will focus on are Walter Benjamin's essay, The Task of The Translator, and Paul De Man's commentary on it. Benjamin. During the period of Romanticism, translation was divided into two sorts : creative, and mechanical. It was also the industrial revolution and Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), like many translators, was really fond of mechanical translations. This German philosopher wrote The Task of The Translator in 1923, as an introduction to his translation of Baudelaire, Tableaux…

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…

Emerson’s argument, like that of many authors in The Norton Anthology, centers around the nature of the Poet; what they are and what they are not. The argument for the nature of the Poet as a sort of translator for humanity provides the basis for Emerson’s essay. Starting out, he states that The Poet “sees and handles that which others dream of” and imparts it to the rest of humanity (Emerson 621). The nature of the Poet is representative, he is attuned to something the common man is not, and…