Textual criticism

wrote, “Mrs. Hawthorne’s Headache: Reading The Scarlet Letter” However, I am also sure that my response to what he has written would not be what he expected. This reader, writer relationship is one of the first ideas he touches on in his literary criticism, and it is one I understood easily. As I read, I was taken back by how many ideas and concepts I had seemingly missed during my initial reading of The Scarlet Letter. Though I attempted to soak in everything Leverenz discussed, at the…

The Freedom Riders is one example where the truth was either hidden or revealed through the news. Bias where strong in the south where people were segregated meaning that African Americans were usually passed off as troublemakers compared to others who saw the acts of segregation an act of cruelty. The trick to get pass bias is to interpreting the document to discover what is fact and what is fiction. It would deem best for one to gather multiple primary source documents such as first hand…

In A.Berkeley Mickelson and Alvera M. Mickelson’s textbook: “Interpreting the bible”, the couple had the purpose and goal to equip” prospective pastors, as well as other Christian leaders in developing sound principals of interpretation that would help them to understand the truths of the bible and to evaluate the religious ideas that are brought and carried out in our daily lives” After many years of having their textbook in seminaries, colleges, and other institutions of higher learning, the…

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…

depressive position forms an understanding of situations by acknowledging the realities of it and then using natural knowledge to reach a satisfying conclusion. The depressive position reflects the way that reparative reading purposefully uses the surface textual details to interpret literature. The paranoid position reflects how paranoid reading also actively seeks or implants meaning into text so that unforeseen knowledge is realized before it can surprise the…

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…

To interpret a passage responsibly and reflectively, one must study the literary context around the passage. By literary context I mean how the context shapes the meaning of the text. If we know it or not, each time we come to a text, we are already implying our presuppositions about what we know. More than often, our presuppositions are incorrect because we receive them from our present day in age and not that of the day the text was written. We need to throw these out, and study the text…

The author in “Why Literature Matters” is saying that recently people have stopped literature. And the author states this in paragraph two. Also the author in order to backup her claim uses a lot of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos In the first half of “Why Literature Matters” the author uses logos to support her claim that people have stopped reading literature. Like when she says “According to the 2002 survey of public participation for the arts.” She got facts from them to help make her argument…

Friedrich Nietzsche derived two opposing terms to describe the ways to respond to drama and real-life art. These two distinctions known as Apollonian, the side dominated to by reason, and Dionysian which focuses more on emotion; either emotion to music or the rage of tragedy. Critical thinking is a major part of the humanities, the distinction of the two sides will come in handy while analyzing literature, music, and theater. In literature, the use of word choice to convey a special message is…

Reading Between the Lines An author’s main purpose of writing is for their audience to receive the message they are trying to convey. Our job as the reader is to interpret the channels that are being used to help get the authors point across. Sreedhar Potarazu, uses several different tactics throughout his article “Is Social Media Ruining Our Kids?”. In this article, he brings to our attention the growing negative effects of today’s youth frequently using social media. Potarazu uses ethos,…