...“Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, was published in 1995. The genre of the story is southern gothic. Gothic tales are usually creepy, like in this story there is a missing leg and a missing glass eye. Gothic tales are also describes by a small or enclosed place. Half of the setting takes place in the kitchen making it clear that it is from Hulga and Mrs. Hopewell’s point of view. The Climatic action takes place in the barn loft emphasizing Hulga’s vulnerability. The reason the story is southern gothic and not just gothic is because it takes place in the South. The title of the story is a phrase repeated by Hulga and Mrs. Hopewell throughout the story. Mrs. Hopewell thinks she can decide between if a person is “trash” or if they are...
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... ____________________________________________ Course Title Course Code Pre- requisite Credits : : : : World Literature Lit 02 Lit 01 3 Units Vision-Mission Statement : Instructor : Email : Office : Consultation Hours: MWF Venue : Consultation Rm. I. Course Description: Socorro D. De Jesus, Ph.D. Associate Professor 1 socorro_dejesus@hotmail.com General Education Faculty Rm, 2 nd floor, St. Anselm's Building 1 The course will introduce students to the writings of persons from selected countries across the different continents of the world. Students will gain an understanding of literary concepts to be able to interpret, analyze and evaluate various genres. Furthermore, students will have the opportunity to learn and appreciate the cultural heritage that is articulated from each literary text. II. Course Objectives: At the end of the semester, the students should be able to : 1. read and understand representative literary texts from various continents in the world. 2. analyze literary texts using the various approaches in literature. 3. employ critical thinking skills. 4. appreciate the...
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...Cut Apart From Submerged Privacy It can very be difficult for a reader to understand a piece of literature if he or she has not undergone the process of research through background info about different aspects of the literary work. Analysis of the piece can always help, but it is not as effective without background information to back it up. Analysis and background information work hand and hand to cut literary pieces apart from their submerged privacy and uncover very important details hidden between the lines. Mark Doty’s “A Collection of Minerals” is an autobiographical poem, and it paints a very clear picture of when, where, and how he feels about that time in his life. Analysis and background information about the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mark Doty himself can help give the reader more insight into Doty’s emotional journey in “A Collection of Minerals.” In “A Collection of Minerals” Doty yields just enough detail and well thought out descriptions in order to inform the reader of when and where the story takes place. He allows the reader to know exactly how he feels. Doty uses allusion and symbolism tell the story of how his innocence faded away during a troubling time in his personal life and a troubling time in the country. “This was Titusville, Florida, / the year our class practiced/ climbing under our desks,...
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...two months of hard work. From the very beginning when I chose the topic till the completion of the thesis, I have benefited from many people . First of all I would like to show my sincere gratitude to my tutor, Shen Guozheng. Without his sincere and trustworthy guidance，valuable suggestions and critical comments，it would be difficult for me to accomplish this thesis．His loyalty to teaching and punctilious work style has profoundly impressed me. Moreover, I heartily thank all the teachers who have helped me in the past four years, who have provided me with incentives and direction for my study. Thanks are also due to my classmates and friends for their constant encouragement and their ways of assistance in the course of writing. Last but not least, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my family members, for their selfless support，thoughtfulness and encouragement． Abstract Jane Austen was one of the distinguished realistic novelists in the nineteenth- century-English literature．Pride and Prejudice is a world wide popular novel published in 1813．Austen set the story in the first decade of the nineteenth century．At that time，marriage was the only way for women to gain social status and recognition. The author of the present thesis will analyze the five marriage patterns from the perspective of sociohistorical literary criticism to explore the important role that money and love plays in marriage. It can be seen clearly that Austen fully expresses her...
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...text (contents); 3. Television agency; 4. Television and technology; 5. Television history; 6. Viewer, audiences: I, We, They. Why study television? People wrote about television as a general media. There was a certain resistance to the study of TV. To study popular culture was parallel to the fear of the death of high culture. Umberto Eco (1964) and others gave special attention to TV and other “minor arts”. The interest in the study of reader/receiver increased in the 60’s in the universe of high culture and the academy. R.Barthes – encode/decode. Later the canonization of popular mass culture in Anglo-American countries changed the vision of the society about the TV. In the US they reflected about the industry. Cultural industries – television is culture but it’s also an industry. If we think in Hollywood as a dream factory we have also a culture industry. Nowadays popular culture is a part of our life. Common sense and TV – resisting the analysis of television is also a consequence of commons sense. But there is a paradox: it is so easy to watch that it becomes difficult to analyze. TV is inscribed in daily life. TV is transparent. Popular culture, namely TV, has a supposed transparency: what I see is what it looks likely to be. It’s so easy that it resists analysis, but what is easy to watch is as complex as any other phenomenon. Kracauers perspective – “The Mass Ornament”, 1931 * Analyses of widely read books are an artifice...
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...UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND LAW DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF ISSAYYAAS HORDOFAAS NOVEL YOOMILAATAA BY:- TEKALIGN GURMESA ADVISOR:- ASHENAFI BELAY SUBMISSION OF RESEARCH PROPOSAL TO DEPARTMENT ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Contents Page Acknowledgement Abstract Chapter one 1. Introduction 1.1. background of the study 1.2. Statement of the problem 1.3. Objective of the study 1.3.1. General Objective 1.3.2. Specific Objective 1.4. Significance of the study 1.5. Delimitation of the study Chapter two 2. Review of Related Literature 1.6. Definition of theme 1.7. Theme and other element 1.7.1. theme and plot 1.7.2. theme and setting 1.7.3. theme and conflict 1.7.4. theme and character 1.8. Review of Related studies Chapter three 3. Research methodology 1.9. Research Design 1.10. theoretical frame work 1.11. Procedures of Analysis Time budget Budget plan Reference CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background of the Study Literature is the reflection of culture, religion, history and politics of human being. According to Owo Moyela(1993), literature is “linguistically the commented facts and ideas through which people used to present their deeds and world views from one generation to other”. We can infer from this quotation...
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...ITT-Technical University Rhetorical Analysis of Dr. Martin Luther Kings “I Have A Dream” (Revised) Introduction On August 28th 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the “I Have a Dream” speech which was addressed to not only the 200,000 white and black Americans but people all around the world. The “I Have A Dream” speech has been considered one of the most greatest and powerful speeches in history. Why was it given? Simply to rectify that all me were created equal despite their race or color. In this Analysis I will be explaining some literary terms he used as strategies in his speech, and also explain how Dr. King used two rhetorical patterns to help him support his argument, those two patters are Ethos, & Pathos. Strategies Dr. King used many literary terms in the “I Have a Dream” speech such as Alliteration, which is the repetition of sounds. For example he says, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” The “c” in those three words of that sentence gives it a repetitive rhythm feel which will make that important part of the speech catch and memorable. Also from that same sentence he used Anaphora, which describes the most famous part of the speech, where in this case is “I Have a Dream”. Although he used it many times just buy naming this speech “I Have a Dream” it will make...
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...Intellectual Property and Developing Countries Intellectual Property and Developing Countries The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) describes Intellectual property (IP) as creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce. Because Intellectual property is not physical, it poses some difficulty when trying to establish and enforce laws to protect it. The most common ways of protecting Intellectual property are done through patents, trademark and copyrights. Patents and trademark laws protect inventions, trademarks industrial designs, and geographic indications of source (i.e. symbols that specifically distinguish the source of goods); and copyright laws cover literary works, choreography, novels, paintings and architectural designs. Although it is a somewhat controversial issue, I have found that it is very necessary for developing countries to have customized intellectual property laws. These laws will aid in efficiently accessing and sharing of research and technological information, increased innovation, and present a more enticing environment for Foreign Domestic Investments (FDI). Although greatly debated, in the biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry, strong intellectual property rights are very important and can literally save lives. In China alone stronger IPR laws that prevent counterfeiting could save as many an astronomical number of lives each year. The World Health...
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...of the Laureate Research Project. . Pacing: This map is one suggestion for pacing. Springboard pacing guides precede each unit in the “About the Unit” sections and offers pacing on a 45-minute class period length. Prentice Hall Literature – Use selections from Prentice Hall throughout the quarter to reinforce the standards being taught as well as the embedded assessments within the SpringBoard curriculum. QUARTER #1 SpringBoard Curriculum Pacing Guide August 23 – October 22 Standards and Benchmarks | Unit Pacing Guide | SpringBoard Unit/Activities | Assessments | SpringBoard Unit 1Literature * The students will analyze and compare significant works of literature and id relationships among major genres * Analyze the literary devices unique to the literature and how they support and enhance theme and main ideaReading * The student will use pre reading strategies and background knowledge of subject/content area to make and confirm complex predictions * Determine main idea and essential messageWriting * Pre write by generating ideas...
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...is literally "an acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts. The word literature as a common noun can refer to any form of writing, such as essays or poetry; Literature as a proper noun refers to a whole body of literary work, world-wide or relating to a specific culture... * lit·er·a·ture n. 1. The body of written works of a language, period, or culture. 2. Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value:"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity" 3. The art or occupation of a literary writer. 4. The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field: medical literature. 5. Printed material: All the available collected literature on the subject. 6. Music: All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble: the symphonic literature. Good literature has something important to say about life. If we take the time to read and understand the literature, it should help us to learn more about life. It may be that we do not agree with what the writer says. Nevertheless, the act of studying it will have made us think more carefully about the topic on which the writer focuses. The word genre in literature means a type or style of writing: ...
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...neologisms and key concepts, such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence. These concepts describe ways in which the colonized people have resisted the power of the colonizers. As David Huddart claimed in his book, because “its histories and cultures constantly intrude on the present”(Huddart,2006:1), being considering the present situation, for example, violently proclaimed cultural difference is combined paradoxically; the globalization has complexly interconnected networks, colonialism could not be understood as something only existed in the past. When people attempts to understand it, Homi Bhabha suggests that transformation of the understanding of cross-cultural relations is demanded. Some Honi Bhabha’s writing on, for example, colonialism, race, identity and difference, are collected into the volume The Location of Culture. This essay will focus on several issues that Bhabha has mentioned in his book. At the very beginning of the introduction of The Location of Culture, Bhabha says “It is the trope of our times to locate the question of culture in the realm of the beyond” (Bhabha, 1994:1). So, what does beyond mean? “The beyond is neither a new horizon, nor a leaving behind of the past” (Bhabha, 1994:l). But in the beyond, “there is a sense of disorientation, a disturbance of direction” (Bhabha, 1994:1). Bhabha points out that, people nowadays find out that they are in the moment of transit, and during the transition, when time and space cross, complex figures...
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...Art as Technique 1. Defamiliarization is stripping objects or subjects from their individual or “familiar” characteristics and giving them unusual or “unfamiliar” traits to allow the reader to see it in a whole new perspective. An example of this is in Tolstoy's defamiliarization of spanking, explaining the act as “to strip people who have broken the law, to hurl them to the floor, and to rap on their bottoms with switches.” The crude description removes the disciplinary context it had and creates a vicious and “savage” form of abuse. This continues with Tolstoy saying “Just why precisely this stupid, savage means of causing pain and not any other – why not prick the shoulders or any part of the body with needles, squeeze the hands or the feet in a vice, or anything like that?” The initial reaction to the latter quote is condemning its barbaric nature. However upon thinking that, it exposes several contradictions and hypocritical opinions as the only thing that changed in both scenarios was the form of punishment, not the infliction of pain on the child itself. Like Shklovsky said “the object isn’t important,” it is the connotations it conveys. 2. The concept is quite prevalent in feminist literature, specifically in the feminist critique in which most, if not all, the female characters are produced by men and male-oriented literature. However, gynocriticism isn’t immune to this technique as it could easily be exploited to further “radical feminism”. In the feminist...
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...Freud’s theories however sparked an all new era of Psychology. Although Freud’s theories seemed very radical, when put into life situations they actually make perfect sense. Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism refers to literary criticism or literary theory which, in method, concept, or form, is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic literary criticism is a very common method of analyzing stories such as The White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe. Sylvia, a shy girl, who is rather naive and innocent. For most of her life has been sheltered from the atrocities of life. Being shielded from the outside world she hasn’t come to the conclusion that people can be bad. However this changes when a handsome and mysterious stranger wanders in her area. At first she intimidated by the man but is very eager to assist the man and wants to make a good impression. When finding the heron true changes begin to form in Sylvia. In sparing the heron she is more confident in her decision and assertive, she is willing ignore a person’s approval in order to preserve a beautiful part of nature. The white heron can represent Sylvia’s purity or innocence. According to psychosexual analysis the tree in which Sylvia climbs can be a phallic symbol for the ornithologist. While going through the forest with the ornithologist, he takes the lead although Sylvia is familiar with the...
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...September-October, 2011 PROTECTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN BANGLADESH: AN OVERVIEW S. M. Atia Naznin1 S. M. Atia Naznin (2011). Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in Bangladesh: an overview. Bangladesh Res. Pub. J. 6(1): 12-21. Retrieve from http://www.bdresearchpublications.com/admin/journal/upload/09251/09251.pdf Abstract In this era of globalization and rapid expansion of world economy, intellectual property and the corresponding rights over intellectual property are crucial to the economic, social and technological development of any country beyond doubt. Globalization also has made the Intellectual property rights a subject matter of international concern. All nations who want to promote and project their development in all aspects must protect the rights over intellectual property by granting legal veil through exclusive enactments. Realizing this fact, all industrialized nations and by now most developing countries of the world have enacted laws for the protection of ‘works of mind’. To comply with the international obligations Bangladesh also has introduced intellectual property rights protection system. This research paper explores to seek how enforcement mechanisms in Bangladesh are intrinsically precious, effective and thenceforth, worth in protecting the rights of IP holders. As an obvious flow of discussion the paper reiterates to look beyond the constraint and formulation of a comprehensive legal framework for IP protection. Key Words: Intellectual property...
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...Sektionen för Humaniora Engelska 61-90 The Importance of Class and Money A Marxist Analysis of Jane Austen’s Persuasion Therese Andersson C-essay Tutor Kristina Hildebrand Abstract This essay analyzes how issues related to money and social class are presented in Jane Austen’s Persuasion. The method used will be a close reading as well as aspects of Marxist literary criticism, a theory that will be presented in the second chapter. Background information about the author and her time will then be given in the third chapter. In chapter four, the character of Sir Walter Elliot will be analyzed, in chapter five Elizabeth Elliot, and in chapter six William Elliot. Some of the other characters will be analyzed, more briefly, in the seventh chapter. Conclusions will then be drawn in the eighth and final chapter. 2 Table of contents Abstract.....................................................................................................2 Table of contents.......................................................................................3 1. Introduction.........................................................................................4 2. Theory and method..............................................................................5 2.1 Close reading............................................................................................5 2.2 Marxist literary criticism...........................................................................
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