Thank you for this. My teacher assigned a literary analysis and tried to explain it, but I just got confused from what she was saying. This was a great explanation.
Thank you Laurie, this was the best explanation on how to write an academic analysis essay. You are so thorough and clear in your explanations. I tutor a special Ed child and, after watching your video, he knew exactly what to do. Thanks again.
Great video. I got here via a link from an online College Composition class at Point Park University. Now I see why this was given as a resource. Very concise, and well delivered. Thank you.
My English teacher at Solano College linked this video. I want to thank you for it. It explains a lot, and I can refer to the information you've given to try to make great essays.
This has to be one of the absolute best breakdowns I have ever seen! Thank you so much for your help, I am much more confident in my ability to create a good piece of writing.
Thank you for this educational exposition of how to structure a literary analysis essay. The presentation was clear and accessible to those whom are new to the practice, amongst which I include myself (a self-directed learner). This Friendly lecture also directed me to further investigate some of the other elements mentioned therein, that are integral to the process of producing an essay of this nature; such as Literary devices, Citations and formal essay rules. Thanks again for uploading this, I am excited to engage with some of my non-fiction with new eyes, and perhaps, to utilize some of the analytical techniques elucidated here in an interdisciplinary implementation.
Thank you so much for this video. It was a very clear, and concise step-by-step presentation. It also answered many questions I had regarding my analysis essay assignment, and helped me to get started.
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Undoubtedly this is beautiful. I do want to know how would this apply to a piece of narrative where an individual remembers major events of life even while playing with time. Not remembering the events in a chronological order but in any order . We have to perceive it as one whole and find organic unity in the work to be able to fully appreciate it as a whole. Examples - a film like ' The Mirror' by Tarkovsky. It is an unconventional narrative but still touching our soul when we have seen it till the end.
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This is a great lecture, but the correct pronunciation of Conch is actually like Konk. The ch at the end is not pronounced like chair but like character.
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The enlightenment of mankind is barely separated from primitive beasts by a fragile social construct known as rules, and more importantly, the enforcement of rules. Absent that, civilization crumbles like a house of sand. The constant struggle to contain man's savage nature is richly explored by William Golding in his masterpiece "Lord of the Lies". Can someone review this hook and bridge?
I'm hoping you read this in time. What does it mean when they want to know what that TIME PERIOD has to do with the literature of that era? HOW would I even find something like that? She said she didn't want facts, she wanted analysis.
+Jennifer W She's most likely talking about the historical literary lens, which has to do with knowing a bit about WHEN an author was writing. People write about what they know and have experienced, and the environment in which a person writes can greatly influence his/her subject matter, style, attitude, etc. For example, during the the time leading up to and during the American Revolution, many people produced writing that was of a political nature, but it was also a time where many people's voices appeared in editorials, broadsides, etc. -- quite democratic, actually. Not many people made their living as writers at this time, either, because many of the great literary minds employed their skills in politics and in the cause of the American Revolution. Thus, people primarily wrote with a specific persuasive purpose in mind. An example would be Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," an emotionally charged, yet well-written indictment of England's treatment of the colonists and a treatise on the rights of the individual. You can read said document, analyze its political, persuasive, and literary value -- and ALSO analyze how, during this time period in America, we still enslaved an entire race of people. We ironically fought successfully for the freedom of our new nation, while turning our backs on the reality that we were denying freedom to a large part of the population. In this instance, you can use what you know about the time period, coupled with what you know now, and using that larger scope/picture, you can analyze WHY they wrote, and HOW it impacted society then and now, etc. (see example below). What someone writes can have a profound impact on his/her environment. An example would be John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, which he wrote during the Great Depression as a means of communicating his feelings about the migrant workers in California. He was greatly influenced by what he saw and experienced, and as result of his ability to effectively communicate the plight of those hit hardest by the Dust Bowl and the Depression, he raised great awareness in the country -- to the point where Congress got involved and created legislation to aid those hit hardest by the poverty. You can analyze HOW Steinbeck presented his information in an impacting manner, HOW the country received the information (ex. his home town of Salinas was so upset over his negative depiction of their treatment of the migrant workers that they publicly burned his book), etc. I hope this is somewhat helpful. I could perhaps be of more assistance if I knew specific information about your assignment. Good luck!
Laurie Harmon What you said made a GREAT amount of sense, except that I still don't know where to look or how to prove enough things. The fact that Steinbeck "was greatly influenced by what he saw and experienced" is proven, in my opinion, because he wrote about it. But what about the poets who suddenly broke from traditional poetry to a very short, to the point type? I was given a list and told to pick a literary era, so I picked modernism. She then said that she does not want a paper simply listing facts; if she wanted that, then she would read a history book. She said that she wanted me to argue a point about WHY the various authors did what they did (usher in modernism, I guess), and prove it. At least one source must be from the library. When I asked what she meant, she said that a book might mention cell phones today, because they're prominent, versus 100 years ago, no one is going to mention a cell phone, unless it's a sci-fi! But again, what you said *really* helped! (I wish she would have given us at least a small lecture. Maybe she felt she was doing us a favor by not doing that, I don't know.) So my main question still remains: HOW do I find resources to prove things like, "because of the dust bowl, the author seemed to want to address the severity of the problems." (Or something like that. I stink at words!)
I have a lecture on this channel on Modernism in America that actually answers some of those issues to give you a beginning ideas. You would further benefit from reading a bit about Modernism -- historical criticism entails reading about the social, political, etc. elements of the times and analyzing BOTH how what was written in that time period was a reaction to/product of that era, as well as how the writing influenced the time. For example, Modernism in America was in many ways a direct result of the "Isolationism" that occurred after WWI. Many Americans were disillusioned after the Great War and didn't see any value in being involved in world affairs; thus, we adopted a sort of policy that involved "closing the borders" and "having a big party" (the "Jazz Age"). Of course prohibition made getting alcohol illegal, so we have the growth of the mobsters and organized crime syndicates, which just made having a party with alcohol all the more dangerous, exciting, and wild. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is a great example of the decadent, frenzied, and irresponsible lifestyles of those people. Other Americans were so disillusioned with the politics that got us involved in the war that they became ex patriots-- either permanently, or for an amount of time -- and lived abroad -- many of them in Paris (ex. Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc.) Ernest Hemingway's novels, specifically The Sun Also Rises, are great examples of the lost hope and despair that these writers represented in their work. Also, we are close to the turn of the century, and that always represents a focus on "change." Many Americans were moving from the rural areas to the cities, representing a large shift and a physical change. Thus, American writer and poet, Ezra Pound, offered the edict that American writers needed to "make in new." This philosophy gave birth to such stylistic and formatting changes such as "Imagism" in poetry and "stream of consciousness" in prose writing, to name a few. Finally, consider that Modernism also encompasses "The Harlem Renaissance," a period where African American art, music, literature, etc. is recognized and validated (thus the growth of the blues, jazz, etc.). Because of The Harmon Foundation (no relation) and others like it, the ideas and talents of a once ignored group of people now had a voice and a presentable contribution to the American experience. Poet, author, and musician Langston Hughes is a great example of how American society benefited from the Harlem Renaissance. All of this changed when the Great Depression hit, and we enter into a period we often call "Late Modernism," which possess some different characteristics than the above-discussed "Early Modernism." I hope this clarifies somethings. Good luck!
For people still wondering about this same question, what your professor wants is information about the society and culture of the time period that would have influenced the author. For example, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath is about the Great Depression, but what morals or social conventions of the time are reflected in the characters of that book? The characters in the book are farmers. What would farmers have cared about in the 1920s and 30s? How did the Dust Bowl affect their lives? You can find a piece of research about farmers living in the Dust Bowl to discover what their lives were like and then compare that information to their lives in the book. Knowing about their hardships influenced his work. Other things influencing his work could include World War I, other authors of the time (their style of writing and themes in their writing), social structures (wealthy, working class, working poor), his life in California, etc. An author today might be influenced by social factors such as a reliance on technology, fragmented families, political divides, and attitudes about religion, authority, morals, gender, race, and other cultural factors. They use these things as inspiration for their fiction.
We use literary devices when we discuss pieces of writing. Writers employ various ways to communicate through both literal and figurative language (using literary devices). Metaphors, similes, symbolism, etc. are a few of the ways that writers can convey a deeper meaning.
Hi Ms. Harmon. IS there a way for me to speak to you for an invitation to speak to my Literature class? Thank you for this insight and hope to get in touch with you real soon.
