The author prefaces her own reading of the Odyssey with an analysis of the issues posed by the earlier feminist readings on which she builds. Should the Odyssey be read as a "closed" text, that is, as one whose meaning is highly determined, or as an "open" text whose contradictions and ambiguities undercut its overt meanings? Siren Songs presents a feminist critique of the Odyssey in an accessible manner aimed at a more general audience. All Greek is translated, and critical terminology is clearly defined. Lillian Eileen Doherty is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park.
BRIAR ROSE-JANE YOLEN Yolen has created an ingenious story of great significance in Briar Rose. Aside from the novel itself being a fictional text, the book stresses the intrinsic importance of fairy tales to the responder. The resilience and power of these tales are emphasised as is the significance of true stories form the past. It is through the examination of the allegorical story told by Gemma and the characterisation used by Yolen that the concept of the hero and heroine is explored. Yolen has enabled her readers to understand the value of the past for the present and to witness both the true horrors as well as the acts of courage in her novel Briar Rose.
The first essay written by Jaschik meets the criteria for literary nonfiction because it discusses the huge controversy of plagiarism and how it affects literature today. Mr. Murray explains how we need to be critical readers. Ondaatje's essay is creative and uses figurative language to give us a "sense of place" and a "sense of
While then, Liesel writes the story of her life, containing both tragedy and beauty, at a fevered pace. Liesel has come to the realization that words can cause both violence and comfort, and she strives to make them "right" by combating propaganda with writing that emanates from love. The reason I chose this quote to be a part of one of my passages is because it gives a great deal of explanation of how
However if the responder were to read Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen, the connections between the two would shape and then reshape the responder’s understanding of both texts. The two texts are connected most obviously through Weldon’s commentary and analysis of Austen’s writing and social and historical context. However the two texts are also connected through their didactic purpose, examination of values, use of epistles and their female author’s status and feminist messages. Whilst all of these connections do enrich each text, it is to a limited extent as both texts also work in isolation. Aunt Fay writes to her niece Alice in the hope of teaching her about Austen and her writing and what better way to do that than by direct reference to Austen’s most successful text, Pride and Prejudice?
Many writers have influenced their surroundings and changed beliefs of people. Some have written the history and we are still paying the consequences of it wether what they wrote is true or invented. Women have been portrayed in many different ways throughout history; positive and negative. We learn that by reading various ancient and contemporary texts. If we would have stick to only one writer or source we would have only learn one side of the presented issue and taking into consideration our naive nature some would most likely believe that the author is right.
“It is the texts that passionately and intelligently engage with the changing reality of their period that we value most highly.” Write an essay in which you explore the extent to which this is true of the texts you have studied in your elective. (Two Plath poems, one additional text) The texts that passionately and intelligently engage with the changing reality of their period are the texts that challenge society’s views. They become the texts we value most highly as they make us question old values and progress in our ways of thinking as a society. The most highly valued texts are the ones that change opinions – that make people understand different perspectives and see issues in new ways. Sylvia Plath was a poet and author who deeply and thoughtfully engaged with the period in which she lived, which was rapidly evolving and developing.
《The Fourth of July》分析文 2007年05月06日 星期日 11:14 Xiaoshan Cai EN1010 2/22/07 Analytical Essay In her essay, “The Fourth of July,” Audre Lorde told a story that had greatly changed her views of the world. She did not exclusively include too many of her current views in the story; instead, she tried to use the events in the story to create a consensus of feelings between her and the readers. This form of writing, although seems objective because it is mainly descriptive, is actually embedded with very strong ideas. Audre Lorde did so by using several methods, such as contrasting between how things happen differently from what she expected, using natural foreshadows, telling the story from the views of an innocent child, herself in the past, and expressing some key ideas using some form of irony at the end of the essay. Overall, while the essay gives readers a feeling that it is their own choice to judge the issue, racism in the United States, described in the essay, it actually leads the readers, using the methods mentioned above, to judge the issue according to Lorde’s intend.
This is where it gets interesting, because the concept of this particular character in the poem being alone is contradicted in two of the following lines “We know what it is for / we who have used it” (17-18), which could very well be hinting at how this discovery of one’s self is contributing to the collective. These lines are backed up by the fact that Adrienne Rich was heavily involved with movements in the Vietnam War and creating an equitable society through feminist movements.
To summarize this indepth story on being criple is simple. In my own opinion you have to be a strong individual. At first it only started off as being thought for the narrator to write essay on criple. It took her to almost hurt herself to do so. The story is very interesting because she starts off by telling what criple mean to her as a individual.