In “a raisin in the sun”, Hansberry depicted a typical color people’s hard life in a racial segregation district in Chicago. At the first of the movie, the older house, and the crowded room, which five people liv […]

After reading the story, I can’t think the novella depicts enslavement in a negative or a positive light because the opinions of readers are different. From Babo’s perspective, the novella positively depicts […]

I find it is seriously difficult to write a novel as a narrator. First, I should think about what kind of story is, who the characters are, and where it happens. It should be logical. The author says that the plot […]

In the chapter 5, Cullar states the usage of rhetoric on literacy and some different kinds of rhetorical figures. The four master tropes are metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony. I think writers use rhetorical […]

In the chapter “literature, meaning, and interpretation,” Culler states three different dimensions, there are the meaning of word, of an utterance, and of a text. I am interested in“ meaning, intention, and conte […]

Culler came up with five points theorists about the nature of literature, there are literature as the foregrounding of language, literature as the integration of language, literature as fiction, literature as […]

After reading chapter 2 “what is literature and does it matter,”  Jonathan Culler doesn’t tell us what the definition of literature is, he just makes some examples in some aspects to make readers to know lite […]

Hello everyone. My name is Qipu Li. I am from China and have been in New York for almost two years. I gradually got used to life here. I think New York is different from my city. There is some delicious food, […]