ugcntanetenglishMay 27, 20203 min readPOST Colonialism: FRANTZ FANON AND THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF COLONIALISM (Part2) Writing in the 1960s in the context of Algeria and its French colonial occupation, Frantz Fanon has been an influential figure in...
ugcntanetenglishMay 25, 20202 min readPost Colonialism: IntroductionModernity emphasized on two aspects:- 1. Rational and optimal use of resources in order to achieve maximum profits. This was directly...
ugcntanetenglishMay 17, 20201 min readpsychoanalytic criticism part 5Poststructuralist psychoanalysis Harold Bloom: Freudian Revisionism •Works: Agon (1983), A Map of Misreading (1975) and The Anxiety of...
ugcntanetenglishMay 16, 20202 min readPsychoanalytic criticism- part 4Archetypal criticism •Maud Bodkin’s 1934 work Archetypal Patterns in Poetry and later the works of Northrop Fry developed Jungian...
ugcntanetenglishMay 12, 20202 min readPsychoanalytic criticism- part 3Meaning of the text lie in the reader’s experience of the text. Readers import into their reading, their personal experiences.
ugcntanetenglishMay 11, 20202 min readPsychoanalytic criticism- part 2Freud, speaking about the male child, says that the problem with sexual desires begin with the child’s dependence on the mother. Love for th
ugcntanetenglishMay 10, 20202 min readPsychoanalytic criticism -Introduction Psychoanalytic criticism Oedipus complex Sigmund Freud Id ego superego
ugcntanetenglishMay 10, 20201 min readPoststructuralism: Part 5POSTSTRUCTURALISM, POSTMODERNISM AND NARRATIVE Poststructuralism with its notions of différance, textuality and intertextuality destroyed...
ugcntanetenglishMay 9, 20202 min readPost-Structuralism : Part 4KRISTEVA AND THE CHORA Kristeva proposed a stage before that of the symbolic (which is about language): the semiotic, where the semiotic...
ugcntanetenglishMay 9, 20201 min readPost Structuralism: Part 3Baudrillard's notion of ‘simulacra’ is linked to the idea of ‘hyper-reality’, like Disney World. He suggests, we are so caught up in the...
ugcntanetenglishMay 9, 20201 min readPost Structuralism: Part 2PAUL DE MAN AND RHETORIC Paul de Man-Â a deconstructive literary critic. De Man argued that there was no referential language because all...
ugcntanetenglishMay 9, 20203 min readPost StructuralismStructuralism 1. Model of reading texts 2. How to unpack the elements that constituted the text's meaning (textual analysis) 3. How to...
ugcntanetenglishMay 8, 20201 min readStructuralism part 5 Dialogue: utterance- central feature of all speech. •Hetroglossia : prime examples- novels. Simultaneity of many levels of dialogue and lan
ugcntanetenglishMay 8, 20202 min readstructuralism part 4Semiotics § Study of signs § Signs- words, gestures,Sounds, objects and visuals that generate meaning as a part of a system of...
ugcntanetenglishMay 7, 20201 min readStructuralism- part 3 Russian Formalism •Major names : Boris Eichenbaum, Viktor Shklovsky, Roman Jakobson and Juri Tynyanov •Major works: Osip Brik, Eichenbaum...
ugcntanetenglishMay 6, 20202 min readStructuralism part 2Saussure •A Course on General Linguistics (English translation in 1959)- Saussure’s 1915 work language – a system where various...
ugcntanetenglishMay 5, 20201 min readStructuralismPart 1 - Introduction Structuralism- emphasis on language or formal properties of texts, their structures and frames in specific genre...
