The paper through this evaluation attempts to explore how poststructuralist critical theories for literary analysis support the pedagogies which are recommended for the effective and dynamic twenty- first century classrooms. The paper concludes that reader-based poststructuralist methods of analysis train students to make efforts to bring change into their cognitive structures and see the world from multiple perspectives. ... Poststructuralist Literary Theory Poststructuralist literary theory being the outcome of Derrida's theory of deconstruction has brought the reader and interpreter o...

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This overarching theme of the downtrodden masses versus the empowered elite minority is constant throughout the narrative, thus leaving the novel openly suitable for analysis from the Marxist perspective of literary theory. There are several other key themes, tropes and connotations throughout the novel which can also be connected strongly to the Marxist school of literary criticism, of which are discussed in greater detail below. ... The experience left Orwell a staunch anti-Stalinist, and as such anti-Stalinist themes would become prevalent within Orwell's literary works, especially in...

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Althusser goes further in his analysis to assert that this intricate relationship between the governor and the governed causes the latter to unconsciously accept predetermined identities of subjugation through a given ideology propagated by the state. ... This stresses the ability of the fable as a literary genre to implicitly point to controversial concerns, which assigns the book its immortality....

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Storytelling developed with the function of entertaining, instilling moral values and entrenching cultural identity, while history entails an analysis of past events, often with an element of objectivity. ...

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