After reading Benito Cereno I’ve come to the conclusion that the novella doesn’t exactly paint African enslavement  as the horrible reality that it truly was. I feel that we are made to sympathize with Captain […]

In the play “A raisin in the sun,” the author depicted the environment of Walter Lee’s family. In the family of Lee, everyone has a goal to achieve: “Lee is tired of his job, he wants to be rich enough to afford […]

Through over the novella of “Benito Cereno”, author Herman Melville mostly depicted plots with the perspective of Captain Delano and the third-personal angle, to create and visualize an anxious, suspicious, and […]

1)While reading Culler’s chapter on “Narrative” I began thinking about the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. I had recently re-watched this movie a few days ago and when ideas of narrative were being thrown around […]

According to chapter 6, plot is the significant element that tell what happened in the story, which would shape the story and makes it genius, and it can be narrated in many different ways through discourse. These […]

In Chapter 5 Culler presents many interesting rhetorical and poetic techniques. Many of these techniques can be found within the two poems that are the subject of our first paper. Of all of the techniques […]

In Chapter 5 of Literary Theory, Culler mentions that metaphor, as one of the basic uses in language, it is also treated as respectable. He said that metaphor is commonly used to provide a vivid visual image to […]

After reading “Literature, Meaning and Interpretation” I must say I was most intrigued by the idea of language taking on different interpretation as it relates to an individual’s specific  culture. For example […]

In the chapter of “Literature, Meaning, and Interpretation”, Culler argues that language, which is used to present meaning, is not pre-existing, on contrary, the meaning of language is given by various int […]

After reading the section of “The nature of literature,” I find myself most interested in angle of “literature as intertextual or self-reflexive construct”. In this part, the meaning of literature is not only pr […]

Though I admittedly found it hard to grasp or even agree with every idea presented within each angle Culler gives I found that Literature as Aesthetic stood out and was the most interesting to me. I thought it was […]