Tag: Literary Theory
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British Colonial Diaspora in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Janet Ridout Dr. Ramie Tateishi English 600 6 October 2013 The Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory of Cultural Studies in Relation to British Colonial Diaspora in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth Contemporary British fiction has had several debuts in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Novels like Joseph Conrad’s 1907 novel The Secret Agent, Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel…
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Wanton Acts of Southern Narrative
23 March 2013 Wanton Acts of Southern Narrative: Notes on the Sublime, the Grotesque, and “Grayling; or, ‘Murder Will Out‘” William Gilmore Simms, Esquire of Charleston, South Carolina (1845) In researching William Gilmore Simms, a prolific literary figure of Southern heritage, an argument is bound to come up in the heated debates over Simms’s sympathies…
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Transatlantic Discourse as Defining Nineteenth Century from Twentieth Century Gothic Literature
English 620B American Gothic 24 March 2013 Transatlantic Discourse as Defining Nineteenth Century from Twentieth Century Gothic Literature 366 words / 3 pages Helen Sutherland writes as to the differences distinguishing American gothic fiction from its British heritage lies in the trans-Atlantic…
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Feminine Archetypes of American Gothic Literature
ENG 620B American Gothic 17 March 2013 The Female Gothic in American Literature 456 words / 2 pages The American English manifestation of the female condition as a literary significant composite construction based loosely on the artistic license of the respective author’s judgement regarding women and their place in fictional works, as well as female representations as…
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mcw600_unit1_notes_Qualities of Exceptional Literary Writing
Here are some basic tenets of Humanism as provided by Mary Klages of the University of Colorado, Boulder. Actually, these ideas will probably sound quite familiar to most of us, as these are the basic or at least underlying ideas of most of our studies in literature in high school and maybe even in college…