PPT-Literary Analysis Strategy

Instructor Yelena K BaileyKirby 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 writers personal perspective interpretation judgment or . 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.. Critical reading: psychoanalytical, . marxist. , feminist. LQ: Can I compare poems . thematically while . analysing. language form and structure?. Literary terms: Juxtaposition, assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme, caesura, crescendo, bathos, pathos, satirical, misogyny. 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 . 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. 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. . Dr. Maier. Aristotle: . Poetics. First significant work of literary criticism . Authored in 335 B.C. . 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? . Lecture, Week Eight. Pamela Niehoff. 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. 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 . 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 . Mrs. Crowell. (information adapted from Ms. . Klassen. ). Literary Criticism: An Introduction. A DEFINITION:. Literary Criticism is the . study, analysis . and interpretation of a literary work. . The .