Criticism

The keyword Criticism is tagged in the following 10 articles.

Literature as a Social Tool: Education and Cohesion or Class Domination?

January 13, 2012 - 3429 words | Literary Criticism » Fahrenheit 451

English literature is all-encompassing: it ranges from societal utilitarianism of the didactic through to the celebration of individualism embodied in post-modern work. Literature, as part of a larger cultural body, is both instructive and entertaining, and has the... Read Article »

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Literature History Literary Theory Criticism Cultural Theory Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

Racial Uplift: Acculturation to the Dominant Culture in Contending Forces by Pauline E. Hopkins

October 27, 2011 - 3306 words | African-American Studies » African-american Literature

Domestic fiction reigned in women’s literature during the nineteenth-century. These narratives defined ”True Womanhood,” where the female exemplified four pillars: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. They are meant to reject the public... Read Article »

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African-American Literature Literary Criticism Acculturation Dominant Culture

The Matthaean Exception Clause: A 21st Century Interpretation

October 27, 2010 - 4744 words | Religious Studies » Christianity

Sexism is not unique to Christianity; however, in the Christian religion many of those who identify themselves as Christian fundamentalists are more likely to hold sexist views of women. Because the scriptures were written during a time in which women had few rights... Read Article »

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Binding And Loosing Feminism Reinterpret the Bible Divorce Sexism in the Bible Sexism Jewish Code Law Form Criticism Interpretation Bible Marriage Fundamental Law Women Women in the Bible Matthaean Exception

Ending the Exceptional: Defiance of Conventions in Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider"

July 6, 2010 - 2394 words | Film and Cinema » Dennis Hopper

The myth of American exceptionalism has existed since early on in our nation’s history. As early as the mid 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville proclaimed that the United States held remarkable place in the world, as a nation of immigrants living in the first democracy... Read Article »

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Easy Rider Dennis Hopper Dennis Hopper Easy Rider American Exceptionalism Alexis De Tocqueville Film Criticism

Rhetorical Analysis: Pauline Inklings in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

June 22, 2010 - 1549 words | Opinion » Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson proves to be an enduring literary illumination into the human psyche. This little novella, published as a Christmas story in 1886, took some of the first steps into early Modernism and provided the... Read Article »

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Criticism Critical Analysis Rhetorical Analysis Paul Of Tarsus Jekyll And Hyde Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde Louis Stevenson Kevin Mills

Raising Titanic: The World of Communication & the Creation of One of the World's Most Succesful Films

March 10, 2010 - 3625 words | Film and Cinema » James Cameron

Twentieth Century Fox was right to question the likelihood of box-office success for James Cameron’s $200 million film Titanic: “an Edwardian period piece, a costume film, a romance, a story whose ending was known – and a ‘downer’ so to... Read Article »

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Titanic Avatar James Cameron Creating Titanic Film Budget Journalism Film Criticism

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue: Psychoanalyzing Connie in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

February 24, 2010 - 1809 words | Literary Criticism » Joyce Carol Oates

It is perhaps an understatement to say that the character Connie in Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” has a lot of issues. Oates has provided the perfect character to undergo a healthy dose of psychoanalytic... Read Article »

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Psychoanalytic Criticism Joyce Carol Oates Baby Blue Psychoanalysis

The Relevance of Food to Representations of Gender in The Awakening and Goblin Market

February 2, 2010 - 3299 words | English » Food And Gender

Carole Counihan argues that ‘men’s and women’s ability to produce, provide and consume food is a key measure of their power,’ (1998:2) whilst Jack Goody has argued, ‘gender hierarchies are maintained, in part, though differential control... Read Article »

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Goblin Market The Awakening English Literary Criticism Gender Carole Counihan Jack Goody

An Analysis of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity"

December 14, 2009 - 1636 words | Film and Cinema » Billy Wilder

In her article “Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema”, Laura Mulvey describes a way of analyzing and understanding cinema from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. A very similar approach is taken by Molly Haskell in her review of Hitchcock&rsquo... Read Article »

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Laura Mulvey Molly Haskell Double Indemnity Billy Wilder Film Noir Psychoanalysis Castration Anxiety Femme Fatale Freud Film History Film Criticism Film Journalism

Viewing Four Vonnegut Novels Through the Lens of Literary Criticism

November 17, 2009 - 2599 words | Literary Criticism » Kurt Vonnegut

I like Kurt Vonnegut because he’s innovative and unique, his literary voice speaking out of a time period I love, when he “was actually helping to breathe life into a new genre—modern, pop fiction,”[1] according to critic Tom Verde. Even though... Read Article »

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Vonnegut Literary Criticism Humanism Science Fiction Satire Ambiguity Religion Poverty Human Machines