PPT-Literary Theory

Dr Maier Aristotle Poetics First significant work of literary criticism Authored in 335 BC Pity and Fear Eleos and Phobos Catharsis Mimesis A Multiplicity of Approaches Literary critics are almost never unified in their interpretation of a novel or any literary work Why do you suppose this is the case What factors make it virtually impossible for critics to come to a consensus regarding the meaning of a literary work . 2014-2015. Alliteration. stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a . series. “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. ; A . FORMALIST. By:. Haley A.. Erica C.. Elizabeth G.. DEFINITION:. A way of analyzing literature in which no outside information about history, politics, or society, is used, and no prior knowledge about the author’s life or time period is referenced. Strictly the text, and literary elements used within it. . 1301. New Historicism. A text can be better understood if one takes the time to investigate the background of its setting, or the life and time of the author. . New historicist readers use literature as a tool to interrogate society- more specifically, the society in which it was written. . Lecture, Week Seven. Dr Natalie Kon-yu. ACL 2009. The Struggle for the Australian Story. Conventional histories once had it that in the late 1800s two master narratives were tussling for control of the Australian story: . Close Reading Assignment. Climax. most exciting/suspenseful moment. Resolution. problems are . resolved. Complications/Rising Actions. new problems arise. Basic Situation/Exposition. conflict. . is introduced. By David Johnson. Chapter 5 . The Politics of English : Conflict, Competition, Co-existence. Introduction. In Chapter 4, the concept of the English language as a global industry introduced English-language publications as significant in the spread of English. . Feminist Criticism. Exploring women’s redefinition of their identity in writing.. - Snow White’s life with the dwarves as important to her education as a submissive female who learns lessons of service, selflessness, and domesticity.. The Literary 3x3 is a simple and ultra brief writing activity to prompt . t. hinking outside . the plot. The task: . summarize . the novel/story they have read without using specific names or events. “Money . in Jane . Austen”. Robert D. . Hume. The Pennsylvania State University. Abstract. Recent scholars have demonstrated that Jane Austen does not depict a ‘bourgeois’ world. But the attention paid to socio-economic issues of rank or class in the novels has been accompanied by relatively little specificity about the magnitude and buying power of particular sums, especially incomes. Austen lived a very straitened life in economic terms, and she was, unsurprisingly, hyperconscious of money. Each novel poses economic questions, but the difficulty of determining present-day-equivalent buying power makes it hard to judge the magnitude of the sums involved. While recognizing that ‘retail price’ and ‘average earnings’ may diverge as measures of inflation by a factor of more than thirteen, this essay argues that a multiplier somewhere between 100 and 150 produces a generally plausible equivalent today. It also argues that attention to the size and buying power of the specified incomes of Austen’s principals underlines their elite status. Bingley’s £4000–5000 per annum puts him in the top one-tenth of 1% of the population, and . Professor Helphistine. Spring 2012. Bibliography. Multicultural Literary Criticism. I. Origins of Multicultural Theory V. Current Articles. Response to Change. The Impact of Multicultural Theory. . English . 4U. by . Carlinda. . D’Alimonte. This presentation is partly based on a PowerPoint by . Suzann . Ledford.. Introduction to Literary Criticism. Any piece of text can be read with a number of different sets of “glasses,” meaning you are looking for different things within the text.. Way of looking beyond plot and character development . Allows you to put on a lens and view a text in a variety of different ways. Recognized Critical Lenses. Moral/Intellectual. Topical/Historical. New Critical/Formalist. ENG 4U. Diversity. Feminist literary theory is difficult to define because feminism itself is difficult to define. . The term “feminism” does not claim to account for . all. women’s experiences in exactly the same way because women have different experiences based on race, religion, sexual orientation, class, age, heritage, geographic location, physical appearance, etc. There is great diversity within feminism.. Literary theory and criticism are interpretive tools that help us think more deeply and insightfully about the literature that we read. Over time, different schools of literary criticism have developed, each with its own approaches to the act of reading..