Source criticism

LCP: Primary Source Analysis Your analysis of the American author’s work(s) you selected will form the foundation of your research paper. Do not consult SparkNotes, Shmoop, etc. -- it’s obvious to me when you do, and I’m not interested in what lame internet sites say. I want to know what you think. To analyze anything, consider its function (purpose) and form (design), and how the function and form work together. To apply this to literary criticism: Ask yourself what purposes the author has…

his M.A also in 1963 and his Ph.D from Yale University in 1974. His main course of study was 17th-18th century English Literature, film and criticism as well as American Culture. William Kurtz Wimsatt and Robert Penn Warren were both professors of history during Braudy’s time at Yale and are co-authors of Literary Criticism: A Short Story. With criticism being a main course of study for Braudy, these two professors were vital in the formation of Braudy’s educational career at Yale. Politically…

James argues that the novelist is free to approach the task with complete freedom, the only obligation being that the novel should be ‘interesting’ and ‘a personal impression of life’ (2001, p73); it is only the execution that should be subject to criticism (2001, p.78). Additionally, James insists that whilst there are certain ‘rules’ to writing good fiction the novelist must write ‘truthfully and faithfully, but simple, and yet be understood in a far fuller sense than was present in his own…

the author displays. There is no definite answer. Readers often analyze a piece of literature with the use of background information, but how would readers analyze a text within a text itself and only itself? Formalists use this procedure of new criticism to reject any background information to isolate the text and get a closer view. Formalists also use this technique to focus more on the…

Quantitative history during some of his political narrations, however the material is significantly lacking in references and skewed with political interest from the author. (ref) It is the historiographical criticism and his philosophical discussions on political views that make this an excellent source for a historiographical comparison. The main contribution to historiography is his designating prohibition as the conclusion of an era thus giving the progressive movement a beginning and an…

Historians and International Relations scholars have long had a relationship that allows for interworking, while distinct differences still remain separating the two. In studying the past, a historian and an international relations scholar would take into account the past as a force that generates the questions and theories of both parties. On the other hand, there lies a difference in the way that the historian would place more emphasis on recounting history and international events for their…

stand out as a common source of essential information. Users can add new works or edit the contents of other users’ articles. According to Hasty et al., “Since its 2001 launch, Wikipedia has become the most popular general reference site on the Internet, ranking sixth globally based on Internet traffic” (368). With many volunteers around the world, Wikipedia has massive content that is distributed in different languages. The size and popularity of the platform make it a common source of general…

“[w]hile literary geography is the overall topic, literary cartography provides one possible method, more precisely: tools in order to explore and analyse the particular geography of literature” (Piatti 2009 n.p.). Moretti and Piatti are aware of the criticisms stemming from their inevitably reductive and fragmentary method. Piatti replies to these accusations. She points out that the use of abstraction and statistical methods “has to be imagined as a rather complex interplay between text…

not many people are interested in history. Before taking this class I thought history was a boring subject that I would not need later in life. Through this class I have learned that it is important to know what you are talking about, to look at sources carefully, and that history can be important to me in my future career. Through this class I have learned that it is important to gain as much information as possible to a subject that you are arguing about. This was an important lesson to learn…

Crowdsourcing is the process of getting work or funding, usually online, from a crowd of people. With the web's appearance, crowdsourcing has increased considerably more force in the continuing business world. Some associations that are substantial even governments have encountered the force and pitfalls of utilizing the web for crowdsourcing. As per Wikipedia (n.d.), the expressed word crowdsourcing was instituted in 2005 and it is a words' compression "crowd" and "outsourcing". The term for…