4q 21list week1 Flashcards
is a careful examination and evaluation of a text, image, or other work or performance
critical analysis
is deep analysis of how a literary text works; it is both a reading process and something you include in a literary analysis paper, though in a refined form
close reading
steps to do the close analysis and critical interpretation of literary
text.
- Read the passage and take notes
- Analyze the passage
- Develop descriptive thesis
- Construct argument about the thesis
- Develop outline based on thesis
involves examining the
components of building a text, which allows us to find in small parts of the text clues to help us understand the whole
Literary Analysis
Common Themes in Literature
Identity
History & Memory
Technology
Intertextuality
This theme discusses intersections of cultures and more vocal discussions of
women’s rights and
LGBT rights
Identity
This theme explores the notion of multiplicities of truth and acknowledges that history is filtered through human perspective and
experience
History & Memory
This theme explores what it means when all of humanity’s experiences are filtered through technology.
Technology
This theme recognizes a piece of work as being one
among many throughout history
Intertextuality
a 2009 Indian Hindi language comedy-drama film that follows the friendship of three
students at an Indian engineering college and is a
satire about the social pressures under an Indian
education system
3 idiots
is a satirical 2013 romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan, highlights and ridicules the lifestyle of upperclass Asian families and society.
Crazy Rich Asians
is a 2019 South Korean
black comedy thriller film
directed by Bong Joon-ho
follows a poor family who
scheme to become employed by a wealthy
family and infiltrate their
household by posing as
unrelated, highly qualified
individuals.
Parasite
It depicts a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school
girl in the Japanese countryside who suddenly and inexplicably begin
to swap bodies
Your Name
A troubled lead singer of a rock band sets out to
rekindle the relationship he
never had with his long-lost
daughter.
Doll House
composed of countries
forming their own society and celebrating culture
Continents
Set in rural China in the 1970s, Bi’s story tracks the lives of three sisters - Yumi, Yuxiuand Yuyan. The book is
divided into three parts, eachcentering on one of the threewomen.
Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu
is a 2010 drama fiction novel
written by journalist Manu Joseph. The story follows Ayyan Mani, a middle-aged Dalit working as an assistant to a Brahmin astronomer at the Institute of Theory and
Research in Mumbai
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
is a 2000 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe. It is the first book of a trilogy It was translated into English by Deborah Boliver Boehm and published in the United States by Grove Press.
The Changeling Torikae ko by Kenzaburō Ōe
is an odd confection of a novel, set mostly in what looks like late-Victorian London The city is overwhelmed with crime and prostitution and an influx of immigrants. Opium dens abound. And a serial killer is on the loose.
The Thing About Thugs by Tabish Khair
This writer writes with volatile energy, hurtling through her stories while flitting seamlessly between the unusual and the mundane. She shows the repercussions of bad parenting, the loneliness of forgotten children, the struggles of the smallest creatures, and the frailty of age.
Stacey Richter
Wrote “The Bully”
Roger Dean Kiser
Wrote “It is Important to be Something”
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Wrote “Mango Poem”
Regie Cabico
a song by American rapper Donald Glover, under his musical stage name Childish Gambino
This is America
comprised of five dark speculative stories of quiet tension and uncomfortable nostalgia, written for
deformed children and girls that dream of demons.
Gentle Hell by Autumn Christian
is the 15th novel by the English author Ian McEwan The story revolves around an android named Adam and its/his relationship with its/his owners, Charlie and Miranda, which involves the formation of a love triangle
Machines Like Me Ian McEwan
a collection of essays Split into five sections—Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and
Remembering
Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19thcentury to the island of Hawai’i in a distant post-apocalyptic future
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
a
fictional boys’ grammar school in the north of England. Set in the mid-late 1980s, the play follows a
group of history pupils preparing for the Oxford and Cambridge entrance examinations under the
guidance of three teachers
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
Wrote “I Do”
Eileen Tabios
wrote “Twin Study”
Stacey Richter
