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British Literature

British Literature. May 4, 2009 Ms. Cares. AGENDA:. Story Time Discuss the story’s main ideas and your interpretations. Notes on Literary Theory. Story Time - The Giving Tree. We are going to read a story that many of you have read before: Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree .

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British Literature

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  1. British Literature May 4, 2009 Ms. Cares

  2. AGENDA: • Story Time • Discuss the story’s main ideas and your interpretations. • Notes on Literary Theory.

  3. Story Time - The Giving Tree We are going to read a story that many of you have read before: Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree. As we read, you should simply enjoy the story and think about its meaning. You will answer questions on it when we are finished reading.

  4. The Giving Tree Questions: • What is the main idea of the story? • What details or illustrations stick out the most to you? Why? • What questions do you have of the story? Record your answers to these questions on a separate sheet of paper. You will write additional information on this same sheet either later today or tomorrow, time provided.

  5. Literary Criticism - notes: • Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. • Oftentimes, critics use specific theories to examine literature. • Different theories can provide different readings of the same text.

  6. Historical Criticism • While acknowledging the importance of the literary text, the Historical criticism approach recognizes the significance of historical information in interpreting literature. • This perspective assumes that texts both influence and are influenced by the times in which they were created.

  7. Historical Criticism continued… • For example, an interpretation of The Crucible, which is set in seventeenth-century New England, may be enhanced by an understanding of the McCarthyism of the 1950s. • When we know that it was published just after WWII, Lord of the Flies takes on a completely different meaning.

  8. Archetypal Criticism: • Archetypes are universal symbols; that is, they are images, characters, motifs, or patterns that recur in the myths, dreams, oral traditions, songs, literature, and other texts of peoples widely separated by time and place. • For example, most cultures have stories that present a hero’s journey.

  9. Archetypal Criticism: • Archetypes are universal symbols; that is, they are images, characters, motifs, or patterns that recur in the myths, dreams, oral traditions, songs, literature, and other texts of peoples widely separated by time and place. • For example, most cultures have stories that present a hero’s journey.

  10. Feminist Criticism: • Feminist interpretation focuses on relationships between genders. It examines the patterns of thought, behavior, values, enfranchisement, and power in relations between and within the sexes. • For example, a Feminist reading of The Lion in Winter may take into account the idea of power relationships between the men and women of the novel.

  11. Marxist Criticism: • asdfa

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