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Waugh writes, 'The development of psychoanalytic approaches to literature proceeds from the shift of emphasis from "content" to the fabric of artistic and literary works'. [9] Thus for example Hayden White has explored how 'Freud's descriptions tally with nineteenth-century theories of tropes, which his work somehow reinvents'. [10]
Mar et al., in a study of 94 participants, identified that the primary mode of literature that increases empathy is fiction, as opposed to non-fiction. [5] Other studies verify these results and go on to specify that active fiction in particular engages with the reader and affects the reader’s empathy, at the very least in adults, rather than passive, entertainment fiction. [6]
[3] The confessional poet's engagement with personal experience has been explained by literary critics as an effort to distance oneself from the horrifying social realities of the twentieth century. Events like the Holocaust , the Cold War , and existential threat brought by the proliferation of nuclear weapons had made public matters daunting ...
Archetypal literary criticism is a type of analytical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes (from the Greek archē, "beginning", and typos, "imprint") in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in literary works.
Arizona authorities believe a man was lured out of his home to his death by a stranger seeking help with his car. Paul Clifford, 53, was found dead near a "smoldering vehicle" by Redington Pass in ...
It suggests that "a canon is not a body of texts per se, but rather a set of reading practices" [1] (Ashcroft, et al. p. 186) that incorporates conventions about genre, literature and about writing. The authors have used Shakespeare's The Tempest as an example of a text that has been reworked as a model for post-colonial readings of canonical ...
President-elect Donald Trump said he'd fire federal workers who won't return to the office and also challenge in court a Biden-era deal on the issue.
November retail sales grew at a faster pace than Wall Street analysts had expected, reflecting continued resilience in the American consumer and indicating that the holiday shopping season in the ...