Essays on Literary Criticism

Even though How the Grinch Stole Christmas exhibits traits that fall in line with other criticisms, it largely falls under Socio-political or Marxism literary criticism. That is not to say it does not contain elements of moral criticisms, as it weighs the values of the...

This paper will go in depth about African American literary criticism, what it is, and how we can apply it to the introduction of Robin D.G. Kelley’s, “Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination” as well as a short summary and interpretation of the text. Another...

How can we best reach the most precise and complete knowledge of a literary work? Ought we to take in to account the historical, political and social contexts surrounding the writing and reception of the work? Are we to trust the avowed intention of the...

The world is a dynamic place. There are constantly new events unfolding, new stories being told and new adventures taking place. Events of all kinds take place, like something exciting as winning the lottery, something important like a job promotion, or something devastating like war....

Nineteen Minutes is written by Jodi Picoult, it was a very down to earth type of book and it had a very good story line. The main idea of the book was about how a student named peter would get bullied non stop and picked...

Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Stephen was born January 25, 1882, in London, England, and was the daughter of Julia and Leslie Stephen. Her parents had been previously married, but both their spouses died. After Julia and Leslie got married, the couple had four children, Virginia...

The Breakfast Club »(English The Breakfast Club, also known as the” Weekend Club “) is an American teenage comedy drama [1] [2] in 1985 by director and script writer John Hughes. The second part of the trilogy, consisting of films:”Sixteen candles”«Club” Breakfast “»”Ferris Bueller takes...

Criticism is an integral part of the literary world. The importance of professional literary criticism is invaluable because a critic sees the work as a whole and at the same time takes into account its individual elements: the plot, composition, image system and language. The...

Reading Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison thoughtfully explores the importance of African Americans in the American literary imagination. Morrison shares her concerns with American language and the American literary imagination being both characteristically white, and questions the impact of...

The author Emily Wingate, was a student at the Dartmouth University, during the time that she wrote this essay. The essay won Dartmouth’s annual Literary Theory contest, which is reviewed by the ivy league university’s top ranked english professors such as Dr. Michael A. Chaney...

Readers from all over the world usually are very focused and attentive to what they read. They know most poems, short stories, novels, or plays are not a solid piece of fabric, but a series of threads separated by gaps that readers must fill in....

In Willstead town, in North Carolina strange things are happening. Do you want to know more? Well in A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine LEngle a wonderful writer tells all the weird things that are happening. Madeleine LEngle was born in 1918 and she is...

The composed landmark of Coleridge’s basic work is contained in 24 sections of Biographia Literaria (1815– 17). In this basic disquisition, Coleridge concerns himself with the act of feedback, as well as, with its hypothesis. In his down to earth way to deal with feedback,...

“Postmodern Blackness” is one of several essays that bell hooks has written. It is, by its nature, a philosophical essay in which the Afro-American writer mixes what is literary with what is racial. Hence, in it she attempts at evoking the exclusionary role that the...

The theatrical device of performing a play within another play has been employed for centuries, most notably in European theatre and literature (Fisher and Greiden xi). The play within a play “describes a strategy for constructing play texts that contain, within the perimeter of their...

Nature is an important feature of poetic realism, an offshoot of German realism in the late 19th century. Gottfried Keller, the author of the novel Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (Romeo and Juliet in the Village), is a Swiss writer who belongs to this...