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Literary Techniques

  • Parody
  • Frame Story
  • Constrained Writing
  • Stream of Consciousness
  • Literary Technique
  • Tone
  • Content
  • Length (fiction)
  • Cultural movement
  • Historical Perspective

  • Form
  • Age category
  • Format
  • Epic
  • Tragedy
  • Comedy
  • Tragicomedy
  • Drama
  • Erotic
  • Mythopoeia
  • Satire
  • Romance
  • Non-sense
  • Lyric

Genre

Reading a text by genre relies upon classification. In the case of Atwood, this could be seen as dystopia/ satire. Aspects within the text that reflect the primary aim of writing are of main interest.

defines genre

  • Novel
  • Poem
  • Drama
  • Short Story
  • Novella
  • Fable
  • Notebook

confuses with

Drama

But Perspectives are relative...

  • Abnormality & Unexpected
  • Plot
  • Characters
  • Dialogue
  • Symbols (Ostrich)
  • Theme
  • Drama
  • Historical Fiction

Critical Lenses in Literature

Historical Fiction

  • Distinction, Historical Fiction vs Contemporary Literature
  • Historical Fiction
  • Time-Style-Message

To Conclude...

  • They are the perspectives through which literature are classically analyzed
  • They are a 'set' group of styles
  • Formalist
  • Sexual Politics
  • Structuralism
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Marxist
  • Genre
  • Historicist
  • Reception/reader response
  • De-constructionist.

Why is it Relevant?

Gives readers easy access to the books they enjoy

Transmit knowledge

Entertain (easier to follow, nicer to read)

Allow transgressions (fashionable literature)

Critical Lenses:Genre and Fiela's Child

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