Literary criticism

Even the greatest literary masterpieces have critics and criticisms. The Awakening by Kate Chopin is not an exception. Christina R. Williams literary criticism of The Awakening titled, “Reading Beyond Modern Feminism: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening” is an accurate and fair judgment of the Chopin’s work. The positions taken in the criticism are all ones that support my own analysis of the book. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is frequently mentioned to be an early novel of feminism. While the book has…

All types of literary criticism have been used to help readers receive intuition about a literary work that they have read or are going to read; they are used to help the reader understand the themes and symbols that they might not have known without a particular type of criticism. The Marxist literary criticism is used when one wants to view a book, or other form of literature, in terms of the role that social classes play in the book as well as the role of the class and beliefs of the author…

In her book Writing Women’s Literary History, Margaret J. M. Ezell discusses, among other topics, the aspects and effects of literary criticism upon women’s literature. With the large and obvious exception of Virginia Woolf, about whom, it should be conceded, Ezell devoted more than a chapter of discussion, Ezell spends a great deal of her book discussing the myriad ways that men and their actions and opinions shaped the development of women’s literature. In particular, in her discussions of the…

Ecocriticism explores how nature and natural world are imagined through literary texts. Ecocriticism is divided into two waves. The first wave is emphasized on nature and writing it as an object of study and as a meaningful practice. The main point of the first wave is the idea that there is environmental crisis regarding the cultural and physical aspects, in the world, so there is need to raise awareness and create solutions for those problems. In first wave ecocriticism, the primary concern…

essay “Styles of Reading”, he points out how focusing on event chains in a story is important to understand all aspects behind a stories comprehension. It was an interesting study in how people read, and how the way in which we read affects literary criticism. Dillon included multiple people’s responses to “A Rose for…

Bandy, Stephen C. "'One Of My Babies': The Misfit and the Grandmother." Studies in Short Fiction 33.1 (1996):107-118.Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Janet Witalec. Vol. 61. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center. Web. 28 Mar. 2016. The critic, Stephen Brandy, believes that the short story “A Good Man is Hard To Find” is a harsh realization to the truths of Christianity beliefs. He claims that “one cannot deny that the concerns of this story are the basic…

Every work of literature can be classified as belonging to several categories, be it fiction, nonfiction, etc. Maus, however, exhibits features of several of these categories, and, because of this, it is harder to classify it as belonging to just one of them. Elements that commonly form part of both biographical and autobiographical works are found in this book, along with those of the novel. The book tells two stories at once; it shows the author dealing with his father, Vladek, after his…

literature has never been an objective science, these self-serving perspectives effectively remove any objectivity from the criticisms at all. Of course, by writing two characters that both represent a level of cravenness and evil (Othello did, after all, cold bloodedly murder…

Antigone was written by Sophocles in around 442 BCE, but it was not his only piece of literature (Classical Literature, 2009). Before the writing of Antigone, Sophocles had also written Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Seven against Thebes (Classical literature, 2009). Therefore, the story is categorized as drama in the classical period. Antigone was written when the national issues were held dear and were of great concern in Greece. For example, there was a thrilling and brutal war…

Amongst the enormous corpus of Hindu literature, Mahabharata stands out as a text of great magnitude, originally comprising of 100,000 Sanskrit shlokas, say about 2 million words. ‘Vedvyasya’, the author of Mahabharata has weaved a plethora of characters in this great Hindu epic, through which he takes the reader through every conceivable human emotion and situation, thus making it possible to identify with it even today. It even boasts, ‘What is here is found elsewhere. What is not here is…