Reader-response criticism

lead the reader to think about the consequences that the decision would create. If she just stopped the war, would it be that simple? Another event that leads to deep thinking, is the ending when the realization that there is more than one true princess. This resolve in the end of the book leads to the curiosity of the other lives. This leaves the reader with questions about the other girls. Questions such as; what was the queen thinking? Another question such as is this wrong? The reader is…

Literary Analysis Collection 1 Characters, conflict, setting, and theme are examples of literary elements. In the stories of “The Trip,” “The Leap,” and “Contents of a Dead Mans Pocket.” The authors use these literary elements in a similar and different ways. Characters are any person, animal, or figure represented in any literary work. Conflict is when two forces oppose one another in a literary work. Then there is setting which is the time or place in which a story occurs in a story. Theme is…

Hermeneutical Method and Exegetical Paper Literary Criticism is a hermeneutical method which pays close attention to the structure of the text. One of the first question which should be asked when conducting a literary criticism is what genre does the text fall into? When performing a literary criticism as a hermeneutical method, it is also important to establish the pericope of the text as it is extremely unlikely and impractical that a literary criticism would be written about the entire…

take these tool and apply it to a text in an attempt to look at it from a different perspective. It grants them the ability to examine a particular aspect of a text, which they regard of significant importance. When these theories are passed onto readers, it allows them to observe texts in a different manner and to challenge the content before them. One theoretical perspective that challenges conventional ideas about literature would be structuralism. This theory is an, “intellectual movement,…

6 Thinking Hats Personal Narrative “GOD’S NOT DEAD HE’S SURELY ALIVE!”, I sing along with my church. I go to Mission Community Church where we say, “Do justice. Love mercy. Walk humbly,” based off of Micah 6:8 in the Bible. I have been at Mission for 2.5 years. The current Pastor, Joel Thomas, is not teaching straight from the Bible and is not clear on his teachings. He also focuses too much on grace. My family is contemplating whether or not to stay at Mission. I will be using the…

The internet movie review of Django Unchained by Roger Ebert creates thoughts of curiosity, query, and resolution amongst readers while maintaining an impersonal, constructive tone that allows the audience to come to their own conclusion about the film and directing style. “… deus ex machina. I apologize to my many readers who already know it. A "deus," for those few who may not, is a person or device in a story that appears from out of the blue and has a solution to offer.” (Roger Ebert). The…

How do I Love to Stop All the Clocks “Stop all the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone” by W.H. Auden and “How do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are both poems that are expressing the author’s love for someone. However, with the aforementioned poems, the poets are in a different point in their experience of love. While Browning is writing for someone in that moment, Auden is writing in mourning for someone. Together, these poems show the power of love through life and after death. In…

There are not many supplemental material used within the lessons. The lessons rely solely on the Bible, without the use of multimedia sources and or visual aids. While I assumed that readers believed that the Bible was the inerrant, authoritative Word of God, I did not blatantly regard the bible as such within my lessons. Further, I assumed that all of my students would be believers already, so I did not give background information about…

53). Even in the womb, Mwindo somehow miraculously provides food and firewood for his suffering mother (Biebuyck & Mateene 1969 53). The mystical elements surrounding Mwindo's birth help establish his status as a hero in the eyes and ears of the readers and listeners as like most other epics performers recite The Mwindo Epic orally (although in this case it is written in a book). Unexplainable events relating to one individual throughout Congolese history have been attributed to the individual's…

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…