Cultural criticism is a phrase that is hard to pin down an exact meaning to. There are different psychological, sociological, and literary definitions of the term, as well as the academic definition those two words might garner even without association to another field. Perhaps this is part of what makes the phrase “cultural criticism” hard […]
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The term cultural materialism became popular in literary theory and cultural studies in 1985, when it was used by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield who developed a methodology that included the analysis of any historical material (including literature) within a political framework. Their four main methods of cultural materialism are: Historical context Theoretical method Political […]
Say the name Sigmund Freud and the first thing that comes to mind is a patient lying in bed in a psychiatrist’s office. Interestingly, Sigmund Freud’s seminal works and theories are rarely used in the world of psychiatry today, at least not in any pure and simple sense. But Freud’s theories remain at the forefront […]
For decades women have used literature as a way of expressing their feelings on the inequality and unfair expectations imposed on them by society. Through novels, essays, poems and other literary works, female writers were able to convey the sentiments of countless other women at a time when they were unable to voice their opinions. […]
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“We have believed that the whole world is an enigma, an innocent enigma, which our frantic efforts are terrible to interpret as an underlying truth.” At this point, Umberto Eco can be a concise introduction to his important work in semiotics, aesthetics, linguistics, and his best-selling essays. Throughout many of Eco’s works, he has been […]
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Hemingway, Papa Hemingway, later decided in his letter that he needed to describe his new way of writing, teaching how to write a short story. Ernest Hemingway started his post with the new name The Sun Also Rises. Fitzgerald always talked about the rights and wrongs of writing and creating. With the help of several […]
The feminist movement in the world of literature has had a past made up of struggles to be heard by the male-dominated mainstream and attempts to retrace the past to find over-looked texts that had been previously ignored. Women writers from all over the world have taken part in this struggle. It was not until […]
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DON’T: Don’t write the same things everyone else writes. I recently had a conversation with a professor on the admissions committee at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I had applied to the School’s Master of Fine Arts Writing Program, and she called me on a Sunday night to give me a surprise […]