Tuesday 6 March 2012

Working towards a Grade 7? ACADEMIC DISCOURSE CLUB on LITERARY THEORY

Optional additional work for students in pursuit of a Grade 7 or who wish to challenge themselves and deepen their understanding of Literary Theory.
Students are invited to post comments and/or questions here relating to Literary Theory. Our first topic is Professor Greenblatt's theory of self-fashioning as it relates to the Renaissance or any of the texts you have read. His ideas relate to power, social status, gender and identity as social constructs.
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4 comments:

  1. Unknown7 March 2012 at 02:52

    hi

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  2. Anonymous7 March 2012 at 02:54

    Thanks Akshay the test is working

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  3. Anmol Bhansali23 May 2012 at 09:44

    Recently, I read up on "CULTURAL MATERIALISM". It is a theory that draws many parallels to Greenblatt's New Historicism.
    As per Cultural Materialism, every era is dominated by three major cultural influences -
    1. The Residual Culture - In Doll's House, this could be the age old idea that women must play there traditional roles of housewives and mothers and be submissive to men.
    2. The Emergent Culture - In Dolls House, I identified that the burgeoning of the educated middle class was an emergent culture in the late 19th century.
    3. The Oppositional Culture: In Doll's House, the liberation of Nora from her traditional role and escape from the structured and highly constructed setting represents the oppositional culture of the time

    Any thought?

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  4. Anmol Bhansali23 May 2012 at 09:51

    Secondly, while reading Freakonomics, the author Steven Levitt describes three main incentives for every human action. They are;
    Moral Incentives, Economic Incentives and Social Incentives.
    This theory can be applied to the characters of A Dolls House.
    We see a strong economic and social incentive influencing Krogstad, whose moral compass isn't exactly in the right direction.
    Further Torvald is seen to be influenced majorly by a social incentives. Evidence- he is highly bothered about the appearance of his household and "perfect family life". This tends to lead him to be ignorant about the actuality of the circumstances in his failing marriage.

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