PPT-Literary Analysis This is

a literary analysis essay which will analyze the authors development of theme in a story The introduction must introduce the author William Golding the title of the story Lord of the Flies. As with any analysis this requires you to break the subject down in to its component parts Examining the different elements of a piece of literature is not an end in itself but rather a process to help you better appreciate and understand the work o 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.. 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. . Moving Beyond the Formulaic. 1. Literary analysis . involves: . examining . all the parts of a . text (character, setting, tone, theme, imagery, etc.). thinking . about . how. the author uses those elements to create certain effects. The Literary 3x3 is a simple and ultra brief writing activity to prompt students to think outside the plot. The task: students summarize the novel/story they have read without using specific names or events. English novel Engl2349. . Dr. Sami S. . Breem. Plot. . plot/events/actions. . Aristotle’s plot-line/structure/diagram. introduction/exposition. . rising action/development. . climax/turning point. Close Reading Assignment. Climax. most exciting/suspenseful moment. Resolution. problems are . resolved. Complications/Rising Actions. new problems arise. Basic Situation/Exposition. conflict. . is introduced. 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.. “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 . Purpose . A literary analysis is not merely a summary of a literary work.. Instead, it is an . argument. about the work that expresses a writer’s personal perspective, interpretation, judgment or critical evaluation of the work.. Norton Field Guide . . “Literary analyses are essays in which we examine literary texts closely to understand their messages, interpret their meanings, and appreciate their writers’ techniques” (81).. Literary: anything having to do with written works (books, poems, stories…). Literary Genres. Literary: anything having to do with written works (books, poems, stories…). Genres: this is where books are sorted and divided by different topics, areas, departments, subjects or . Instructor: Yelena K. Bailey-Kirby. The Purpose of a Literary Analysis:. A . literary analysis is not merely a summary of a literary . work; . i. nstead. , it is an . argument about . the work that expresses a writer’s personal perspective, interpretation, judgment, or . Psychoanalytic Criticism . Psychoanalytic.  criticism adopts the methods of "reading" employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author's own neuroses. One may psychoanalyze a particular character within a literary work, but it is usually assumed that all such characters are projections of the author's psyche..