ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Literary Theory, New Historicism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Graham Lorrie

Document Summary

Write the author (complete name spelled correctly), name of narrative (complete name spelled correctly) and why the passage is important to the story/novel: section iii (40%): essay. Essay on midterm is similar to essay on exam. Midterm is 3 hours write an essay for the full 3 hours. Types of criticism that are appropriate: feminist, gender and sexuality studies. How men are depicted, images of women, etc: new historicism. Looking at text and updating in a historical way; looking at it today: marxism, psychoanalysis. How the text is determined by economics and politics. Sticking closely to freud, but also psychological criticism (ex: jeung, dreams, narcissism, mental illness, writer"s psychological history and how it relates to the text)