There are several major schools of thought in psychology; they are structuralism, psychodynamic, behavioral, developmental, and cognitive perspectives. Each of these schools ranges across areas of the human mind, for example the senses, emotions, the brain’s computer-like response to its tasks, the healing mind’s probing questions and emotions, the importance of values and intentions, and […]
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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 […]
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There are a number of critical approaches to interpreting literature. Specializing in one of these forms of criticism will help you focus your reading and help you construct well supported essays. This article will give you a brief overview of some of those approaches. Historical Criticism During the nineteenth century, the growing faith in science […]
Psychology is the scientific study of mental processes and human behavior. Modern psychology is a transformation that has brought curiosity about mental processes and human discourse into the field of scientific development. Wilhelm Wundt established the first formal laboratory devoted specifically to the study of experimental psychology. Wundt wanted to understand the basic senses, perceptions […]
The play Cloud Nine, by Caryl Churchill, presents two very different time periods in Britain each taking place in separate acts of the play. In Act I the ideas of the British Victorian era are prevalent through displays of “deviant” sexual behavior between the characters. This is juxtaposed with Act II taking place in 1979 […]
Linguistics: This is a broad definition for what is generally termed the study of language itself, often called the science of language. The term traces back to the Latin root lingua which meant only the muscle known as the tongue, but also the words that issued forth courtesy of that tongue. Linguistics as practiced in […]