Hi Zhang, I so agree with you that the circumstances of that era were unfortunate for all the characters. It is very hard to judge if the characters should have or even could do something in a different way. It […]
Hi, I agree with you that it is not a hundred percent sure whether some things in the story were depicted in positive or negative. I think this topic is very comprehensive and it has many points of view. Slavery […]
At the beginning of the story, readers could perceive the narrative of Benito Cereno as a thrilling story between good guys and bad guys. The ship is taken over by slaves (ostensibly bad guys), and the good […]
Hello Kushal, I also agree with you. Even many cultures are passing stories from generation to the next one. I believe that Narratives are not only providing knowledge but also opening our minds.
Hi Waleed, I think you made a point. Why would we read anything without getting something from it? But still, I believe that it is a kind of knowledge in all cases. No matter what we are reading, it will always […]
I would like to discuss one of my favorite movies – Zelary.
The narrative is set up as a story of a young, ambitious nurse who decided out of her own moral and ethical urge to cooperate against nazists during the […]
Hello Xu, it is interesting how you see the metaphor with the ladder. I don’t see the ladder so bleak. I think it is pointing out that there is always a way how to solve our matters. The question is if we are not […]
Hi Avinash, I really like your post, especially for the last few sentences. I was so confused about what could be hidden behind the metaphors of this particular poem, but as you said, we have to think […]
One of the rhetorical figures that are described in Chapter 5 is a metaphor. It is an integral part of our language, but also an artistic expression of the trope. I believe the poem called Diving Into The Wreck is […]
Hello Xu,
I like your post. And I have to add that the saying you have used about the helmets is, in my opinion, sometimes very easily applicable even in the spoken language, not only in literature. I mean, one […]
Hello Waleed, I like the example you have listed, the part from the book Harry Potter and implemented it into the context of the issues of our nowadays society.
To me, the most interesting part of Culler’s fourth chapter, called Literature, Meaning, and Interpretation, was the part that is talking about Language and Thought. This particular part compares two different […]
Hello Jinrui, I like your post and actually completely agree with you. It is always about the attraction of the story or language and perception of the reader. The research texts are much less interesting than […]
Hi, I really like your post. Especially for that fact that you pointed out how significant could be the impact of communication through reading on us and our lives.
After reading the second part of Culler’s essay, “The nature of literature,” I considered the most interesting and useful part called The functions of literature.
In my opinion, essential in this section was the […]
I think it is very important. I believe that literature can enrich your imagination, vocabulary, memory, provide a look into another culture and else. To read literature is way too different than reading, for […]
I agree with you. In my opinion, it should be about the writer. How he would define his work and if it was meant to be literature or not. Another thing is who is considering the quality of the literature. But that […]
In my opinion, the most important aspect of Chapter 2 and its first ten pages is that there is no simple definition of what literature is and what is not. Jonathan Culler describes many features of what could […]
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My name is Tereza Koniakovska – Bors, and I am thirty-five years old. I am originally from Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, but I live in New York in Astoria for five years […]