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    happened?" According to the Oxford Biblical studies, literary criticism is "the investigation of sources and problem of authorship." Therefore literary criticism helps us to know the original sources of the biblical text. The texts itself show that what kind of genre or writing of the texts. And in the case of Pentateuch, most Christians believe that the book of Pentateuch was written by Moses. But by the help of literary criticism, we can know that this is the amalgamating of small fragments. But

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    location it is a problem that is occurring all over in the world (2009, pg. 148). Like every other issue in the world criticism come into play by psychologists and others when someone claims that they are victims of the Battered Woman Syndrome or the Battered Woman Defense when they are taken to trial for killing their batterers (BMW) (2009, pgs. 162-163). One criticism in particularly relates to whether or not if there some legitimacy to a victim claim as a battered woman and also was

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    Psychoanalytic Criticism on “A&P” From the short story of “A&P” by John Updike, psychoanalytic perspective is one of the main criticisms that is being accentuated in the story. This story is about how Sammy, a cashier at A&P responding to view of three women collectively in the early 1960s. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic criticism, emerges the premises and procedures used in the book. Sammy’s psyche in the story is what is referred to as the psychoanalytic criticism. Teenagers show illogical and

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    Formalist criticism is the literary theory that takes a look into works of literature for the message and meaning, but gives a special focus on the form and structure, as well as the literary devices it utilizes. This form of criticism is has a very straightforward approach, breaking down the text into different component parts. Imagery, language, point of view, structure, motivation are all elements this group examines when reading the text. The thing that differs this approach from other literary

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    In Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, one major critical theory revolves around PsychoAnalytic criticism. The novel revolves around this critical theory because in Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, rejecting old-fashioned theories and credulity, begins to research and makes a gigantic human structure monster and gives him life. However, his invention goes wrong as the monster behaves uncontrollably and bringing deaths and destroying Victor and his family and many other

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    There are many criticisms of the humanities and counter arguments against those criticisms. This response will attempt the explain value of studying the humanities, and the criticisms of humanities. According to the dictionary humanities is learning or literature concerned with human culture, especially literature, history, art, music, and philosophy. Through exploration of these subjects, we have found that humanities has played an important role in the world overall. Humanities gives us the ability

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    piece of literature that I had chosen to read, to then express a type of literary criticism. Upon countless days of pondering the opheldering question of what type of literary criticism I would choose, I then decided to choose Post Structuralism Criticism. Post Structuralism Criticism is formalism that considers the text of the piece of literature, and the author's role in creating the text. I then had to use this criticism and piece it with the novel, to express it rightfully.

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    Response Literary Criticism - Hamlet on Film 1. The author’s thesis was, “Campbell focuses on the initiatory paradigms of universal myths and formulates the hero's rite of passage into three major stages: ‘separation [departure]—initiation [action]—return [reflection]’ (Campbell 30) (Khoury 1).” 2. Yvette K. Khoury did give enough convincing evidence to support her thesis. A convincing example of this would be when she said, “… Christopher Vogler who applies Campbell's theories, ‘The Adventure of

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    Formalism is a form of literary criticism that focuses on the formal parts of a literary work. It was started in Russia in the 1910s by two groups led by Roman Jakobson and Viktor Shklovsky. This type typically examines the structure of papers closely and relates them to their meanings. This type of criticism views the work separately from the author and does not account for the author’s emotions or beliefs. Formalists also tend to focuses on the defamiliarization aspect of a work and how foreign

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    meaning. In order to fully comprehend the shift in the usage of words and phrases, one must meticulously pick them apart while also exploring any possibilities that can be linked to them. This practice is known as deconstructive criticism. This form of literary criticism, as Lois Tyson describes in her book Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, “became a major influence on literary studies during the late 1970s” due to its specialization in revealing the hidden messages and unconscious ideologies

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