Application of a Literary Theory to a literary work helps in analyzing the different modalities involved in the creation of a text. A critical approach enables learners to appreciate the textual content and abets their proficiency both in theory and analysis. This exercise throws the literary text into a new light, where different interpretations result in better understanding. Gerard Genette a Structuralist has given a comprehensive outlook on the three major typologies of narratology like story, narrative and narration. In the present paper, the authors have attempted to read Somerset Maugham’s short story The Pool by rigorously applying Gerard Genette’s categories, namely mood and voice. Under mood, ‘distance’ and ‘perspective’ have been analysed in depth. …show more content…
“As fine autumn darkened into winter”,
“The summer came”,
“And in six months he found himself….”
So, we can surmise that Lawson’s catastrophic marriage lasted roughly four years. This temporal interval and the other events in between significantly enliven the story in The Pool. Thus, it is apparent that the narrating is generally subsequent to what it tells. From the ‘point of view’ of temporal position, Genette differentiates four types of narrating:
1. Subsequent – this is the most frequent and is employed as classical past tense narrative
2. Prior – a narrative, which predicts an act generally in the future tense and is also conjugated in the present.
3. Simultaneous – narrative is concurrent with the action.
4. Interpolated – occurs in between the incidents of the action. Genette identifies that the first type ‘subsequent narrating’ extends over the entire genre of narratives produced till now in literature. In The Pool, the narrative subsequent is predominant with the use of the past tense but the elapse of time between the time of narration and the moment of the story, is not indicated
Considering the importance of the literature work, in the following writing. Two literary attempts will be made to make a comparison and to highlight
Critic Roland Barthes has said, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Choose a novel or play and, or considering Barthes’ observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which it offers any answers. Explain how the author’s treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a whole.
2004 (Form A): Critic Roland Barthes has said, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Choose a novel or play and, considering Barthes’ Observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which it offers any answers. Explain how the author’s treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.
Write an essay that analyzes one work of literature that you have read from the perspective of a quotation. In your essay, interpret the quotation and explain whether it applies to a work of literature you have read. Support your opinion using literary terms and elements as well as details from the text.
Trace three of the following threads through the novel. In two paragraphs for each explain the various literary effects of each of the threads and how each is related to the theme. Use quotations from the novel to support each analysis.
Part of the course to which the task refers: Part 4- Literature, a critical study
We all long to write like someone else, maybe it is like authors such as Mark Twain , J.R.R Tolkien, Ernest Hemingway or Shakespeare- although I think the last one is much more like a dream than an actual aspiration-but I desire to write like Stephen King and Stephen Krashen , and even attain to imitate the manner in which they seem to analyze information, and translate such material in a form of a well-developed argument. As a consequence, it seems that the purpose of this summer assignment was accomplished , as according to Ms. Olaerts the purpose was to “give you an introduction to the kinds of reading you will see throughout the course and types of analysis that will be required of that reading.”
Written in third person limited omniscient, and filtered predominantly through Catherine. The unknown narrator slips effortlessly into free indirect disclosure, which adopts the tone and inflection of an individual characters voice. This technique allows the narrator to intrude into the narrative to offer advice, or to foreshadow the characters. However, the narrator frequently breaks from convention and addresses’ the reader directly.
XIV. Literary Analysis Literary terms have a profound effect on a piece of writing. Identify ten (10) different lit terms and explain the effect they have on the text. Literary Term Quotation from text (in MLA format) Explanation: must be at least 3 sentences.
The Rhetorical Analysis Essay was more challenging than I thought since it was different from what I have done in 39A. It was not only about analyzing a story but also combining the background of the readers. At first, it was struggled for me to pick one among the ten stories. After reading the first three paragraphs of each story, I decided to choose the one that seems more similar to my background of perceiving suffocated and restricted in life, which was “ With My Eyes Closed. ” I was being suggested to make some edits as I started to analyze the narrative.
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This paper will cover this topic by using the main aspects of Reader-Oriented Criticism, so it will also evaluate a few essays, reviews, or analyses on the book. Considering that there are two possible angles to interpret the book (idealistic or cynical), it is ultimately the readers who decide how they find its meaning, and their past experiences can influence that decision. In fact, these past experiences can also affect their character as a whole, possibly determining their attitudes towards life or the world. When analyzing the sources, this paper will focus on the parts of the book that people tend to reference most often when explaining their interpretations. It’s essentially important to see whether the readers from both sides are referencing the same scenes or different ones. If both “idealistic readers” and “cynical readers” are viewing the same moments from different perspectives, then that suggests their thoughts are essential to forming their interpretations, which supports the ideas of Subjective
the whole novel: “the linguistic pattern of choices realizes a primitive pattern of cognition, which in turn is the key to the tragic vision of the novel.”(Leech & Short, 2001: 32) Halliday being the widely acknowledged precursor of functional stylistics, the eminent German linguist-critic Leo Spitzer (1887-1960), is likewise father of literary stylistics. In his insistence that the smallest detail of language can unlock the “soul” of a literary work, he maintains the task of stylistics is to provide a hard-and-fast technology of analysis: I would maintain that to formulate observation by means of words is not to cause the artistic beauty to evaporate in vain intellectualities; rather, it makes for a widening and deepening of the aesthetic taste. It is only a frivolous love that cannot survive intellectual definition; great love prospers with understanding. (Leech & Short, 2001: 2) A question which is often asked in this connection is “At which end do we start, the aesthetic or the linguistic?” The image used by Spitzer of the “philological circle”, the circle of understanding, however, seems to suggest there is no logical staring point. Spitzer argues that the task of Linguistic-literary explanation proceeded by the movement to and fro from linguistic details to the
Any literary work is unique. It is created by the author in accordance with his vision and is permeated with his idea of the world. The reader’s interpretation is also highly individual and depends to a great extent on his knowledge and personal experience. That’s why one cannot lay down a fixed “model” for a piece of critical appreciation. Nevertheless, one can give information and suggestions that may prove helpful.
The novella as a whole is written in a pseudo journalistic style. This means that the story is told through a series of flashbacks and interviews used to help describe and support the events taking place. This style