Understanding Ellen Rooney’s Essay
The goal of Ellen Rooney’s essay, Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence: Reading, Rape, Seduction, seems to be to analyze the language that Hardy presents in describing Tess and her feelings, in...
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The aim of Zacharias’ essay Fantasy and Confession seems to be to apply various psychoanalytic frameworks, in order to build an understanding of the unconscious inner-workings of the Governess within...
View ArticleFacing the Heart of Darkness
When Kurtz attempts to escape the steamship by crawling back into the forest in part III of Heart of Darkness, he does so, Marlow believes, because of a spell of the wilderness. This spell, Marlow...
View ArticleBlog #7 – MLA Bibliography Search
The three articles I found were: “Under the Hood of Tess: Conflicting Reproductive Strategies in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles” by Vladimir Tumanov “Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles...
View ArticleBlog 8 – Brantlinger Reading
In Patrick Brantlinger’s essay, Heart of Darkness: Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism, Brantlinger discusses a reading of Heart of Darkness where Joseph Conrad deliberately contradicts himself...
View ArticleBlog #9 – Escaping High Society in House of Mirth
In reading The House of Mirth, we get the sense that Lily is as much a victim of high society as she is a member of it. It seems that she is bound to the cycle of judgement and pretense that riddles...
View ArticleDiscovering the Archive
The archival piece that I worked with is a letter from Sarah Orne Jewett to an autograph collector. In this letter, Jewett quite candidly expresses her annoyance with autograph collectors. She begins...
View ArticleBlog #10 – Dimock Marxist Reading
The concept of Lily’s defiance through submission — of Lily rebelling against the system of exchange by simply adhering to its rules — is worth paying close attention to in Dimock’s essay. Dimock...
View ArticleBlog #11 – Levenson New Historicism
In Michael Levenson’s essay, Living History in “The Dead”, he forms a critical analysis of James Joyce’s The Dead in which Joyce is said to have written with a New Historicist approach. Levinson argues...
View ArticleReflective Statement
Over the course of the semester, I have tried my hand at the different practices of literary criticism. I have demonstrated my abilities to engage with the works of other critics, I have assessed the...
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