ENGL 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Elitism, Feminist Literary Criticism
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As he moves through swimming pools his reception decreases. Status cannot always protect you from downsides of life. Comment on american post-war suburban life: shallow social interactions, entire way of life is empty. Elitism neddy thinks public pool is dirtier than private pools. No identification disk comment on his loss of identity. Interdisciplinary approach to literary criticism, combining several fields of academic study. Contends that individual works of literature should be approached as part of their larger cultural context. Response to formalism writing is not a code, should not be looked at in a clean way: sociological criticism. Takes into account the influences and forces of the author"s time, place and society upon his or her work. Particularly concerned with writer"s socioeconomic status, education history, race, gender, work backgrounder or political class. Way in which the author examines or represents many class-related ideas or concepts in his or her work.