This spring semester of 2017 I took the course Introduction to Literature 2341-16 with Dr. Rivera. This was a challenging course for me at the beginning, since reading and writing has never been my favorite things to do. However, with effort and preparation I could overcome my weaknesses and be able to succeed. Reading is one the hardest things for me, but surprisingly this class changed my appreciation for reading. I used to not read the assigned reading in view of them being boring and also when
student centered rather than teacher centered. 92% of students believed that by reading literary texts in English they would be able to expose to many new words and more than 80% of the students thought that they could improve their proficiency level in the English language through the literature lessons (Abdullah, Zakaria, Ismail, Wan Mansor & Abdul Aziz, 2007). In a way, students can also enjoy analyzing the literary works while learning the moral values promoted in it. Since the texts chosen are based
The 19th century in Western literature is one of the most significant and interesting periods of all. Many of the modern literary tendencies have derived from this formative era.Nineteenth-century literature is characterized by the Romantic movement and by the strong nationalism which was formed by French Revolution and American revolution in 18th century.Romantic movement developed as a rection to scientific and rational attitude of 18C..It was a shift from age of decorum,reason and order to Romantic
Similar to the belief of feminism, the feminist literary theory is used to identify the relationships between male and females and their roles in society in literature. The examination of exploitation of the oppression and marginalization of women is called the Feminist Critical Lens. Lois Tyson, author of Critical Theory Today, describes the feminist literary theory as “"...the ways in which literature (and other cultural productions) reinforce or undermine the economic, political, social, and psychological
Michael Wraa English 110 Professor Joyce Heyman 6 March 2015 What the Readers Response Really Means to the Reader! When writers create their published works they put a lot of effort into conveying a message to the reader. In People Like that Are the Only People Here by Lorrie Moore this is no different. Lorrie Moore does a fantastic job of making sure that her readers will make a personal connection in the text to their real lives and the world that they live in. Reader Response Theory focuses
Psychoanalytic Criticism is a theoretical critical approach that became popular around the same time that psychoanalysis developed during the early 19th century. Rather than focusing on the literal aspects of the literature, the reader is to focus on the symbolic language and dream-like world the author purposely sets for the story. Each part of a psychoanalytically criticized text has both a small meaning for a character, as well as a greater meaning for the point of the story. Stories that deal
My Second Excursion to Whangedoodleland: An Analysis of Reader’s Response Theory First proposed by the late Louise Rosenblatt, reader’s response theory is an innovative conjecture on how and why people react in varying ways to a text. Specifically, Rosenblatt states in her work that a reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition when interacting with a text. In her second
Critical reading is far from an individual endeavor. Our consciousness is not one being, it is many, each with a different voice, tone, you might say. Depending on what you are reading a different member of the consciousness team is articulating it to your brain for interpretation. As authors write they have a specific goal to speak directly to one of those muses in our head, we interpret this selection as the authors tone. In the end, what we perceive as tone is really the author’s attitude towards
feminist lens. Feminist criticism analyzes the representation of women through a traditionally male dominated society, it’s concerned with the ways that literature reinforces or undermines the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women (The OWL at Purdue, “Feminist Criticism”). The assumption in feminism is that women are not treated equally to men, and that women are disadvantaged in comparison to men (About Education, “Feminism Definition”). Feminist criticism in general demonstrates
Moretti in his polemical essay attempts to outline how the literary world-system works. Here, as he emphasized in another essay in response to the following one, novels, as a literary genre, are representative of the most mobile strata of the system, not of the entire system, as an example to show the mobility of world literature. In his opinion, the study of world literature needs a collective work where the important facts of literary history be shared. In this way, his proposed method for studying