Literary Theory Is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. ... It is the study of text without outside influence. ... Formalists were primarily oriented towards the form of literature. They deal with the study of literature as literariness. ... What the wanted to know is how literature works, how it achieves its defamiliarization effects. ...
The English Literary Canon is perceived as the paradigm of exquisite literature bound with key concepts fundamental to our understanding and exploration of societal and political values, rendering it to be widely admired by all. Scholars uphold works from the Literary Canon with the highest regard and proceed to manifest these works into school curriculum for literary study due to their powerful influential nature and complex ideas embedded in these texts. ... The English Canon is often seen as an authoritative list bearing handfuls of treasured literature renowned by all. ... Ultimately the...
Most students think, study, and write in the way they have been trained at school and university. ... When a student trained in one cultural tradition moves, as u are planning to move, to study in another country, a different style of learning is often necessary. A way of understanding the problems a student from another culture can face in moving to a Western tertiary system is to consider the case of an Indonesian postgraduate student who was writing her thesis on Indonesian literature. ... In the first chapter the student had recounted the personal life of the author she was studying. ...
Robert Frost was considered the "most popular modern American poet of the twentieth century" (Literature Online 1). ... Nevertheless, he has, even after his death, remained as "one of the greatest, if not the very greatest, of modern American poets" (Literature Online 1). ... Frost spent many of his years farming, which is perhaps where he acquired his "Popular image as a farmer-poet" (Literature Online 1). ... He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. ... "Frost may be a painter of charming postcard scenes and a front-porch philosopher dispensing consolation and crack...
Furthermore, men who had the advantage of education, contemporary male peer groups and/or male literary forefathers, they could learn and work from, only served to reinforce the exclusively male dominated medium that produced the literary icons of the time One can see that Woolf's argument substantiated by studying the inequalities in educational, financial and social background by comparing herself with another nineteenth century writer, William Wordsworth. Wordsworth, who was born to a wealthy family and who's father was a very prominent lawyer, had the luxury of studying his...
"A World More Attractive: A View of Modern Literature and Politics." Contemporary Literature and Criticism. 3 (1975): 545. ... "Richard Wright and Albert Camus: The Literature of Revolt." ... As a book, Native Son is every bit as important as a study of complete alienation, as it is a protest of racism. ...
