Literature review of “The Things they Carried” and “The White Heron.” The Things They Carried This is a collection of stories given by different narrators about their times and experiences as members of a platoon group of soldiers during the Vietnam War. There are at least three main narrators of the stories in the book, the author Tim O’Brien, Mitchell Sanders and Bob Kiley. The stories capture real life events of happenings on the battlefield and beyond but the author intentionally opts to portray
incredible poetry, but of literary criticism itself. The purpose of literary criticism, in his view, was “to know the best that is known and thought in the world, and by in its turn making this known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas” , and he has influenced a entire school of critics. He was the creator of the sociological school of criticism, and through his touchstone method introduced scientific objectivity to critical evaluation by providing comparison and analysis as the two primary trappings
prophet,” is an adage. The function of a Comparative Literature is to analyse and appreciate the artistic values, and lasting impressions of different literary works in a broader spectrum. The benefits to be gained from cross-cultural or cross-national works involve deeper understanding of other cultures and enriching the process of research. In this analysis, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), an American essayist, orator, and poet, the exponent of Transcendentalist movement – represents the west, while
literature like emotions, feelings, piety, metaphors, epitome, rhythm, colors, etc. without these things an author can’t write a good literature. Most of the scholars had done research on Urdu literature like Masood Hussain Khan carried out original research on ‘Urdu 's phonetics and phonemics’, Gopi Chand Narang on ‘Stylistics and Literary Criticism’, Mirza Khalil Ahmad Beg researched on ‘Literary criticism and linguistic implication’, Shamsur Rahman Farooqui on stylistically studied on the poems
the individual versus society. The feminism reflects on Blanche shows Tennessee Williams’ humanistic solicitude on women in 20th century, which stimulates the introspection of female circumstances in industrial civilized society. On the basis of analysis above, this research proposes the complex nature of the problem of women being underrepresented in history. Tennessee Williams ’portraits of displaced women would help the process of the formation of individual subjective consciousness. By composing
ideas about what it was. With the advantages of retrospection, we can see that 'comparative ' was set against 'national ', and whilst the study of 'national ' literatures risked accusations of partisanship, the study of 'comparative ' literature carried with it a sense of transcendence of the narrowly nationalistic. In other words, the term was used loosely but was associated with the desire for peace in Europe and for harmony between nations. Central to this idealism was also the belief that comparison
Achebe’s novel Arrow of God. Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works (2006) by Ure Mezu is a book which assess Chinua Achebe as a person, a writer and the inaugurator of the literary tradition of cultural nationalism. This book is a compilation of the essays from leading Diasporic African writers. Things Fall Apart- Multiple Critical perspectives (2009) by Chinua Achebe is a book in which Achebe himself discusses about different issues put forward in through his novel. Representing
Literary Analysis A poem in fragments is the manner in which author T.S. Eliot describes his remarkable work The Waste Land. The Waste Land is esteemed as a modernist text for that it is labor intensive pushing past the previous genres, leaving behind the democracy and wistfulness of Whitman and Realism 's weight on reality and realness with innovative thoughts of money, intimacy, intellect, industry and individualism. The Wasteland contains five spasmodic divisions designed each in separate sections
Films are often able to incorporate recurring ideas and images in effective ways that still stay true to their original literature themes. Multiple different elements of film analysis are utilized by the director to integrate those ideas, or motifs, into the film. Motifs help provide significance to components throughout the story via symbolism, which has the ability to give seemingly irrelevant objects a deeper, more important meaning. William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker follows the story of the
operates once set in motion. Through critical analysis, one can grasp these new rules within a reading of Kristen Roupenian’s “Cat Person,” a vignette of a young woman’s experience in the operations of 21st century dating depicting major “red flags” such as entitlement, disregard, miscommunication, and misinterpretations of the relationship. In order to truly grasp the meaning of any reading, the reader must become an analyst. Several schools of literary criticism exist and may be chosen from to