Brett Weidman’s Literary Manifesto: A Reflection on Criticism
During my time in English 220 I was stunned by the sheer number of possible ways of analyzing any given text. Though they are all extremely valid ways of examining what a text actually means and can...
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As a social scientist, I’ve always clung to the idea that context is content. There is no thought that could have 0% relevance in any scenario, since, if it did, the idea would never cross one’s mind...
View ArticleMy Manifesto on Literary Analysis
The question of how one should read/contextualize literature has filled countless books, but I’ll try to sum it up in 300-500 words. Throughout English 220, I felt that New Criticism offered a far too...
View ArticleMy Literary Manifesto
I have long been interested in possible connections between literary works and their historical and cultural contexts. Although New Criticism proved to be an efficient (and often essential) way to...
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Firstly, during English 220, I genuinely enjoyed learning about all of the various methods of text analysis that are utilized. While all of the critical approaches that we have discussed have been...
View ArticleMy Reflection on Criticism
During this class, I was astounded at the various ways one can look at a piece of literature, or any written material. One word can change how one reads a poem or novel, or even the order the words in...
View ArticleWhat Lies in Wildness: My Ecocritical Manifesto
Evidence exists to support multiple interpretations of meaning in a text. That method which takes advantage of the largest number of methods, and applies them in a way that affects change outside...
View ArticleLiterary Theory Manifesto: James George
In our English 220 class we’ve discussed many different ways in which literature can be analyzed. We have applied this knowledge while reading the texts of Mrs. Dalloway, Othello, and various poems. We...
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How should one go about analyzing a text? Alas, a worthy question, one we have spent the semester addressing. In my attempt to answer it, I have decided to focus upon a single aspect of the grander...
View ArticleToolbox Manifesto
There isn’t, in my opinion, any type of literary analysis that is more or less deserving of study. Each form of literary analysis, if you’ll excuse the metaphor, comes together to form a toolbox of...
View ArticleHow should literature be read?
I feel literature should be read in a new historicist criticism. I would being reading the giving text as if it’s written as a historical literature. The text the author wrote would...
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