Reader-response criticism

The representation of the past is achieved only through text that is to say through language. Self-reflexively, the reader sees how Crick textualizes his own story by including historical details of his family background, personal life, natural history and historical events. Here, we could also refer to Linda Hutcehon ‘s essay “The Pastime of the Past Time”, in which…

Biblical literalism is reading the words in the Bible as if they have come directly from God’s mouth. They take the parts of the Bible they want to believe are true making them sure because it is something that they do not want to see. Biblical literalism is no analysis of the text which is nearly impossible. In the film For the Bible Tells Me So there are five families, three of which I will be discussing, each with a gay or lesbian child directly dealing with feelings and situations they would…

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 act 1 scene 2, Shakespeare leaves it to the reader…

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…

Where one account is lacking in details another can fill where gives the reader/researcher more of a broader look on the event and what happened. An example of this is again the Jackson Daily giving a small biased summary of events through the view of white southern reporter in the sixties. If one solely based their thought on…

This is probably the main and most important point carried out throughout the book, and there is evidence of this carried out throughout the entire book. The author gives a nice application for readers to use in each chapter. She did this by asking rhetorical questions like: “How can we know what the bible means”, “What can we expect from studying the bible?”, and “What is this passage talking about?” One of the strongest thing the author did in…

The speeches in Thucydides are critical to the narrative of his History as they provide another perspective on the general context and reveal both the characters of the key protagonists and their intentions. The Sicilian books demonstrate their particular importance where they become a powerful influence on the outcome of the war, notably the two speeches of Alcibiades. Thucydides himself explains: ’of the various speeches made either when war was imminent or in the course of the war itself, it…

In “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading”, Eve Sedgwick, attempts to evaluate the current modes of interpretation, not to criticize the methodologies, but instead illuminate the actualities of monopolistic forms of interpretation and its imposing effect on the utilization of an equally valid alternative. That form of interpretation is called paranoid reading. Eve Sedgwick begins the essay with a personal story of her casual experience with paranoid reading. Through that experience, Sedgwick…

Genetics Involving Pheochromocytomas Jillian Benson Baker University School of Nursing Genetics Involving Pheochromocytomas Pathophysiology Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas are rare, benign tumors that develop from chromaffin cells, which are located in the neuroectodermal tissues around the spinal column and the adrenal glands (Grouzman et al., 2015 and Santos, 2014). Pheochromocytomas are located inside of the adrenal gland, while paragangliomas are located outside of the…

When we do not place the text in the particular social and historical context of the day, we fail to read the passage appropriately. We must read the text as if we were in the readers shoes pertaining to the information presented. A cultural background nugget that helped give me a better understanding of the text, is that of the slaves in ancient Greco-Roman times. Seeing that a large percentage of their population consisted of…