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- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_Arkansas_Little_Rock/ENGL_3330%3A_Approaches_to_Literature_(McAbee)/12%3A_Writing_about_History_and_Culture_from_a_New_Historical_Perspective/12.02%3A_New_Historical_Criticism-_An_OverviewThe American history of the Vietnam war is a great example, for we continue to interpret and revise that history, and literature (including memoirs) is a key material product that influences that revi...The American history of the Vietnam war is a great example, for we continue to interpret and revise that history, and literature (including memoirs) is a key material product that influences that revision: think of Michael Herr’s Dispatches (1977); Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War (1977); Bobbie Anne Mason’s In Country (1985); Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried (1990); Robert Olen Butler’s A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992); and, most recently, Karl Marlantes’s Matterhorn (2010).Micha…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_Arkansas_Little_Rock/ENGL_3330%3A_Approaches_to_Literature_(McAbee)/06%3A_Writing_about_Form_-_Developing_the_Foundations_of_Close_ReadingLearning Objectives Understand the theory of New Criticism as the foundation for close reading. Apply the New Critical methodology to works of literature. Engage in the writing process of a peer write...Learning Objectives Understand the theory of New Criticism as the foundation for close reading. Apply the New Critical methodology to works of literature. Engage in the writing process of a peer writer, including peer review. Review and evaluate a variety of New Critical papers by peer writers. Draft and revise a New Critical paper on a literary work. Thumbnail: pixabay.com/vectors/edgar-allan-poe-american-author-34077/
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/Critical_Thinking_and_Literature_(Schmidt)/06%3A_Postcolonial_Racial_and_Ethnic_Theory_and_Reader_Response_Theory/6.03%3A__Literary_Snapshot-_Alices_Adventures_in_Wonderland“By eating the Owl!” The poem nudges the reader to complete the line by filling in the final ending to the poem: we know that the Panther will eat the Owl. Of course, a reader might complete the poem ...“By eating the Owl!” The poem nudges the reader to complete the line by filling in the final ending to the poem: we know that the Panther will eat the Owl. Of course, a reader might complete the poem by writing, “by throwing in the towel,” or “by picking up a trowel,” “by running down the hall,” or even “with an even greater howl.” In any case, you, as the reader, have activated the text.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Exploring_Perspectives_-_A_Concise_Guide_to_Analysis/zz%3A_Back_Matter
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Exploring_Perspectives_-_A_Concise_Guide_to_Analysis/00%3A_Front_Matter
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Cosumnes_River_College/ENGLT_311%3A_My_English_Literature_-_Romanticism_through_21st_Century_Textbook_(Gale)/01%3A_The_Romantic_Period/1.07%3A_Mary_WollstonecraftIn a treatise, therefore, on female rights and manners, the works which have been particularly written for their improvement must not be overlooked; especially when it is asserted, in direct terms, th...In a treatise, therefore, on female rights and manners, the works which have been particularly written for their improvement must not be overlooked; especially when it is asserted, in direct terms, that the minds of women are enfeebled by false refinement; that the books of instruction, written by men of genius, have had the same tendency as more frivolous productions; and that, in the true style of Mahometanism, they are only considered as females, and not as a part of the human species, when …
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_Arkansas_Little_Rock/ENGL_3330%3A_Approaches_to_Literature_(McAbee)/10%3A_Writing_about_Racial_Ethnic_and_Cultural_Identity/10.01%3A_Literary_Snapshot-_Alices_Adventures_in_WonderlandBecause Alice believes that her rules and standards are universal and should be obvious to all the people she encounters in Wonderland, she can be seen as a symbol of the British Empire, which worked ...Because Alice believes that her rules and standards are universal and should be obvious to all the people she encounters in Wonderland, she can be seen as a symbol of the British Empire, which worked to impose British standards of education, manners, religion, and politics on the people whose countries they controlled. “Were Alice to lose her place as the arbiter of meaning,” Stratton claims, “she would lose her privileged position in Wonderland,” a place where “colonial Otherness threatens the…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_Arkansas_Little_Rock/ENGL_3330%3A_Approaches_to_Literature_(McAbee)/07%3A_Writing_about_Character_and_Motivation_-_Psychoanalytic_Literary_Criticism/7.04%3A_Focus_on_Carl_Jung_(18751961)_-_The_Archetypal_Collective_UnconsciousnessSir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough (1890–1915), an anthropological compendium of cross-cultural myths, complements Jung’s theories of myth.Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough (1922; Project Gutenberg,...Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough (1890–1915), an anthropological compendium of cross-cultural myths, complements Jung’s theories of myth.Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough (1922; Project Gutenberg, 2003), http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3623. Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces(1949) positions Jung in his definition of the monomyth—the departure, initiation, and return of the hero who finds completeness and wholeness during the quest.Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Fa…
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Exploring_Perspectives_-_A_Concise_Guide_to_Analysis/05%3A_The_Analytical_Essay-_Expressing_Your_Points_of_View/5.02%3A_Creating_an_Effective_StyleDiscuss ways to make the style more effective and compelling. Discuss how to fix common mistakes in editing. Provide two contrasting example essays for review.
- https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Composition/Introductory_Composition/Exploring_Perspectives_-_A_Concise_Guide_to_Analysis/00%3A_Front_Matter/60%3A_PrefaceBerlin and others have labeled “current traditional rhetoric,” an approach that has always “denied the role of writer, reader and language in arriving at meaning” and places truth “in the external wor...Berlin and others have labeled “current traditional rhetoric,” an approach that has always “denied the role of writer, reader and language in arriving at meaning” and places truth “in the external world, existing prior to the individual’s perception of it.” By its very nature this approach keeps students from finding their own meaning in the composing process, making analysis seem like an academic game of guesswork to find the answer that the teacher has determined to be correct.
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