Professor Richard Evans mounts a robust defence of his book, In Defence of History (1997), which 'inevitably ... aroused a good deal of controversy'. He answers criticisms ranging from the straightforward belief that history, and particularly academic and scholarly history, does not need defending to the apparently contradictory assertions that the book is both unfairly critical of conservative historians and at the same time defends a conservative approach to history. Professor Evans's critics
expressed himself with his this work. Actually Dryden takes hand the same subject with Sir Philip Sidney who attempts to justify drama as a legitimate form of art. Dryden’s work is now considered to be as one of the most important pieces of literary criticism. It is said by some critics that this work’s aim is to defend English writer’s honor. This work’s settings had already been established by Dryden upon the vilifying remarks of the French commentator Samuel Sorbiére in his Account of a Voyage
To Kill A Mockingbird English 9 Literary Essay Mr. Castellano For better and worse, this assignment will be your final writing assignment for me this year (except for the final exam). So use everything you have learned this year and write a great essay. Your assignment is to write a good literary essay on any aspect of To Kill A Mockingbird. You and I both know you know a lot about the novel and have a lot of good ideas and questions about it. Now is your opportunity to explore
Shakespeare’ is a classical document of literary criticism. It is proof enough of the qualities of lucidity, energy and individuality on the part of Johnson, who has presented before us an impartial and objective judgment of Shakespeare. He has excelled his guru, Dryden in superbly defending the tragic-comedy. In the Preface, Johnson has enumerated the faults of Shakespeare about which Raleigh writes, “The detailed analysis of the faults is a fine piece of criticism and has never been seriously challenged
In this essay, David L. Smith is an apologist for Mark Twain, defending and even praising The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He particularly highlights and appreciates the subtle jabs at antebellum society that Twain delivers in his depiction of the “negro” Jim. The persona of the speaker is clearly the author himself, stating his own defense of Twain’s work. The speaker comes from a modern viewpoint, 1984, yet considers, in his argument, the “overwhelming and optimistic consensus” that reigned
Introduction 1. Cultural Turn in Translation Studies 1.1 Andre Lefevere 1.2 Lawrence Venuti 2. Translation and Gender: Women’s Voice in Translated Literature 3. Postcolonial Theory and Criticism of Western Feminists 3.1 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 4. The Establishment of a Marxist Literary Theory: Ahmad Aijaz Conclusion INTRODUCTION The interest of cultural studies in translation has ultimately taken translation studies away from linguistics analysis
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK (1942-) “The Politics of Translation” Keywords: feminism, gendering, politics, subaltern, translation 1. Author information A philosopher, feminist, literary critic and theoretician, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was born in Calcutta in 1942, graduated from the University of Calcutta in 1959, and left for the United States. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. In 1967, she began working on translation of Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology. Her best known article
is thus forced to misread the text. Or, she could rebel against the text and raise an angry, feminist voice in protest. James Thurber, in the eyes of most literary critics, is one of the foremost American humorists of the 20th century, and his short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is believed to have “ushered in a major [literary] period … where the individual can maintain his self … an appropriate way of assaulting rigid forms” (Elias 432). The rigid form in Thurber’s story is Mrs. Mitty
03/13/2014 Historical Criticism in Fences In American history of literature, August Wilson is famous as an African American’s playwright that writes a lot about the experiences of black people at that era. August Wilson's Fences is a play with a theme centered on African Americans in the mid-twentieth century. "Fences deals with such issues as racism, deferred dreams, parental abuse and responsibilities and family relationships” (Sanders). With the use of historical criticism, this paper will discuss
this discovery of man until the early nineteenth century. Humanist thinking came about as a response to the scholasticism of the universities. The Schoolmen, or scholastics, valued Aristotelian logic, which they used in their complicated method of defending the scriptures through disputation of isolated statements. Humanists accused the scholastics of sophistry and of distorting the truth by arguing philosophical phrases taken out of context. By contrast, humanists researched the historical context