"Cell One" (first published in The New Yorker); in which a spoilt brother and son of a professor is sent to a Nigerian prison and ends up in the infamous Cell One. "Imitation" (first published in Other Voices) is set in Philadelphia and concerns Nkem, a young mother whose art-dealer husband visits only 2 months a year. She finds out that his lover has moved in to their Lagos home. "A Private Experience" (first published in Virginia Quarterly Review) in which two women caught up in a riot between
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A. Expressive Theory Formerly “Expressionism” is a German movement in painting but later on, it extended its access to other literary arts too. Expressive criticism treats a literary work primarily in relation to the author. It defines poetry as an expression, or overflow, or utterance of feeling, or as the products of poet’s feelings. The theory tends to judge the work by its sincerity to the poets’ vision or the state of mind. Such views were developed mainly by the Romantic critics and remain
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth uses many literary devices in his poetry; especially in “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”. In this work, Wordsworth uses personification, metaphors, and repetition. Wordsworths uses these three literary devices to get the reader interested in what he has to say . Wordsworth even shows how he feels when he uses these in a certain way. By doing these things Wordsworth begins to build a picture of his surroundings in the audience’s mind. “I Wandered as
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most noted for her story “The Color Purple” (Goldman). The major theme of “The Flowers” is a lesson about young child’s first journey away from home, which went from a particularly simple life at home into a very complex dangerous world; and three literary devices the author uses to advance her theme is the use of setting, irony, and symbolism. First, the setting of “The Flowers” plays an extremely important role in the theme because it helps paint a better picture in the readers mind. The story
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and could be as materialistic as he wanted. A major aspect of realism was that authors kept their personalities and voices in the background. This is also true in The Death of Ivan Llyich. The Death of Ivan Llyich is by far the best example of a literary
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles The main decision that the reader has to make in this novel is whether Tess is a pure woman that is sinned against or a fallen woman who is punished for her sins. Personally, I have always held the opinion that tends to agree with Hardy that Tess is a pure woman who is constantly wronged against in the text. It seems that Tess’ fate is determined on the very first page in the novel where her father is informed of his wealth and heritage and regardless of this, Hardy’s omniscient
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CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY by John Lye Note: This essay was published in the Brock Review Volume 2 Number 1, 1993 pp. 90-106, which publication holds the copyright. The article addresses contemporary theory in its more post-structural mode, and were I to rewrite it today I would put more emphasis on the cultural studies model, on the growth of gender studies, and on New Historicism, than I do here. I believe however that what I have to say here is still relevant and describes the fundamental
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In what ways does Shakespeare explore human weakness in Othello? Shakespeare explores human weakness in his playwrite “Othello” through themes of power, jealousy, love, seduction, and as in most of his plays, through tragedy with murder or suicide. He also explores human weakness through tales of betrayal, revenge, evil, and racial discrimination. He uses his characters to show varying characteristics of each and how they fit into a complex existence. With the play opening with Iago’s discussion
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our text stated, the tone of this poem was “designed to fire up feelings”. (Clugston, 2010) The formalist approach of literary criticism is the type where the critic looks at the structure, imagery, tone, and other tools. This is done to see how these things work together to give the reader the full experience of the piece. The formalist approach is the most widely used of literary criticisms. In using the formalist approach when reviewing John Updike's poem, Dog's Death, you can see that the grammar
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