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By reading the end of the story, the author Herman Melville describes Benito Cereno as a hero who has managed to save his life and the lives of some Spanish sailors from the rebelled slaves. We see that Benito […]

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In the chapter 6 “Narrative” by Jonathan Culler, the author discusses about the correlation between event, plot and discourse. We realize that in the twentieth, the narrative has bec […]

In the poem “The Sea is History” by Derek Walcott, we can identify poetic technique that Culler describes in chapter 5 and the first four lines in this poem illustrate that fact. in the first line he asks, “wh […]

In the “Literature, Meaning, and Interpretation” by Culler, the author discusses the connection between language and meaning. One of the ideas from this chapter that attract my attention is literature language can […]

In the “The nature of literature”, the author Culler defines “literature” from several angles. I found the angle “literature as fiction” the most interesting and useful. There are many ways to interpret o […]

In the Literary Theory by Jonathan Culler, the most of important aspect of this section of the chapter is how it is difficult to give a definition of literature. According to the author, a child or some […]

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My name is Saikou Sounounou Bah, I am from Guinea that is in the west Africa. I have been living in United States  since 2015. I am a Laguardia student and my major is business administration. I […]