I’ve never heard of lenses before and they are quite intriguing. They show a piece of work in a new perspective. It gives a fresh idea on an average subject. I really enjoy the feministic approach. It gives me an insight on the way other people think about gender and such. I used a lense that I can't remember the name of, but you are supposed to analyze opposites or something related to that? It has been my favorite one, though I don't think we learned about it in class.
I learned to read text through literary lenses, either through feminism or post-colonial, psychoanalysis or marxism. I really enjoyed learning about them. It really got me thinking about and seeing different stories and novels through a different perspective. It really changed the way I read and helped me expand my understanding of books.
The two seminars we had really opened my eyes to what goes into literature. There are many different ways to analyze, ways that I didn't know about prior to studying them in these classes. I loved learning about all the different theoretical lenses that a reader can use to look at a text in a new way. When the reader uses the lenses, they can better understand what the author was thinking when he/she was writing the text.
Also, I enjoyed analyzing the short stories we read in class. I love finding deeper meaning in texts, picking them apart. It was interesting to discuss as a class and see what others' perspectives were. I think my favorite short story we read was Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway. It was the shortest text we read in class but, in my opinion, had the most underlying meaning.
I had a great time learning all of these new analyzing techniques and lenses. I've learned A LOT more that I didn't know. Simply put, "And I thought I knew a lot about literature?!" :)
The seminars have really helped me delve into the depths of the books I read. Now I can look at literature through different lenses to see what the author might have ment. That's really cool becaue before I usually just read the story, not try to figure out what the author was trying to say. I've already used this when I read Pride and Prejudice (again...) and I looked at it through a Marxism lens, Feminism and the Psychoanalytic lens focusing on something completely different every time. I also really liked the different things we read. All the poetry was really cool and the short stories got me thinking. I think knowing the five factors of stories will help me a lot when I am writing. I will remember all about style, audience, social contrast, genre and purpose. I learned that each part is important; you can't have just one with out the others. I think that it's really cool that I'm going to be able to go back home and apply all those things to everything I read; literally everything: poems, novels, short stories, flash fiction - everything.
This week has taught me to look at more than just the words when reading a text. The part that really stood out to me was the fiver factors, meaning the purpose, social context, genre, style, and audience. Before, I have attempted to read books without really thinking about anything more than the plot and story itself. It never really occured to me that there was much more to a story. However, now that I've learned about this, it's easier to understand certain books, like Catcher in the Rye by Salinger. He's writing purely to entertain.
I've also learned about the different views I could take a piece. For example, through a feminist view, a post-colonial view, a marxist view, or a psychoanalytical view (just to name the ones we focused on). The different ways to examine a piece will come in handy when writing for both governor's school now, and for writing papers in the future. These methods of analysis could also give me a leg up when writing scholarship papers and other times when I'll be trying to stand out from a group. The lectures of this week will help me do that through my writing.
Of all we have learned in the past couple weeks, my favorite piece of education was that on literary lenses. Being the feminist and psychoanalytic person that I am, I feel that I already used these lenses in combination constantly. However, I now feel that I can better use these lenses. Also, the other two lenses we learned to use had never occured to me as perspectives through which I could try to see. This fact intrigues me to research other possible perspectives from which I could read some literature. I also enjoyed the rhetoric and learning about logos, ethos, and pathos. I now feel that in advertisements, arguements, and other such things in which rhetoric is involved, I will easily be able to spot these.
The seminars have helped me a lot. When I used to read poetry and stories I thought that the story could be set around any time, but using some of the clues in the seminar I've realized that some writers write about a specific time, like when we read about the bodies in the bogs. If I had read that poem alone I wouldn't have made the connection.
I also learned how to read and analyze stories through different lenses. You can look at things through a feminist view, like the poem we looked at today ("Indian Camp") the woman was barely acknoweledged and when she was, she was insulted. We have also learned to view things through a Marxist lens. Doing this you would look at the different classes in society.
We also learned about Psychoanalysis, which is analyzing something from a different point of view. And the fourth we learned about was postcolonialism, this is just a big word for analyzing how things have changed or stayed the same after big colonization..if that makes sense. All in all, I've learned quite a bit!
After the last two literature seminars, I have learned about the different lenses to read a text in such as; post-colonial, Marxist, feminist, and psychoanalytical. Those different views of reading texts help to see the writing in a new way, perhaps how the author intended or may not have.
In rhetoric we can use three categories of persuasive writing called; Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Ethos refers to ethics (character) for example: a person's expertise or trustworthiness. Pathos refers to emotions and can appeal to fear, anger, humor, and sex. Logos is reasoning. By using logos you are stating the claims and evidence.
Both of these can give a picture or text new meaning every time.
I think that this crash course is intense!!! and it's awesome!!! I really like learning about the different ways to analyze literature. Looking through different lenses gives us a different view each time, and the meaning of actions and words change each time. I've never heard of flash fiction before and it was interesting to read some. I will definitely take these different techniques to read things home and apply them to things I read and write.
I have learned a great deal about reading during these Lit Seminars in these last few weeks. My favorite new way to analyze literature would have to be through the 4 literary lenses we learned about: Post-Colonial, Marxist, Feminist, Psychoanalytic. For my Literary Analysis piece, I analyzed the movie Avatar through a post-colonial lens. Post-colonialism deals with the concept of "colonized" and the "colonized"; concepts such as "The Other" and how the differences between the people who were there first and the ones that came after play a role in contextualizing the story. Marxism deals with the theories brought about by Carl Marx. Marxism always reminds me of Animal Farm by George Orwell. Marx is all about equality between classes - everyone shares everything with everyone, and that's the end of that. The feminist lens deals with the focus of the place of woman in a particular age/society. Lastly, psychoanalytic lenses analyze a text by picking about the minds of the characters and linking their actions to what they are feeling inside.
My second favorite new reading tool would have to be the 5 things you have to take into consideration when writing something or reading/analyzing something. You have to identify the purpose of the text (inform, persuade, entertain), social context (what society was like), genre (the genre..), style (the writer's style of writing: informal, formal, midlevel), and audience (who is the author is writing for/who he/she expected to be reading his work at the time of publication).
Having learned all of these new reading tools, I will never be able to read a book the same way again. (in a good way :)
I really enjoyed the literature studies portion of our English cram sessions. We got to read such a variety of short stories and poems in such a limited amount of time, and I believe that the ways we talked about them have helped me to perceive the stories differently from how I would have seen them while reading them on my own. I thought he lenses thing was cool because I haven't really dealt with them in school before, so they are new to me. Overall, I think the literary studies part has been very interesting, and I really like the conversations we have; they are poles apart from the ones I have in my usual high school classes. I appreciate their depth ;) I feel like I can say what I want.
So...I don't know what else we are supposed to post here...I think everything I've learned and heard about here will be beneficial to my future...My favorite subjects that we were exposed to are Visual Culture, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Creative Writing (especially poetry). That is still pretty broad...I really liked the literary analysis sessions and compositions studies as well! GAH! How do people even choose what to major in?
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I’ve never heard of lenses before and they are quite intriguing. They show a piece of work in a new perspective. It gives a fresh idea on an average subject. I really enjoy the feministic approach. It gives me an insight on the way other people think about gender and such.
I used a lense that I can't remember the name of, but you are supposed to analyze opposites or something related to that? It has been my favorite one, though I don't think we learned about it in class.
I learned to read text through literary lenses, either through feminism or post-colonial, psychoanalysis or marxism. I really enjoyed learning about them. It really got me thinking about and seeing different stories and novels through a different perspective. It really changed the way I read and helped me expand my understanding of books.
The two seminars we had really opened my eyes to what goes into literature. There are many different ways to analyze, ways that I didn't know about prior to studying them in these classes. I loved learning about all the different theoretical lenses that a reader can use to look at a text in a new way. When the reader uses the lenses, they can better understand what the author was thinking when he/she was writing the text.
Also, I enjoyed analyzing the short stories we read in class. I love finding deeper meaning in texts, picking them apart. It was interesting to discuss as a class and see what others' perspectives were. I think my favorite short story we read was Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway. It was the shortest text we read in class but, in my opinion, had the most underlying meaning.
I had a great time learning all of these new analyzing techniques and lenses. I've learned A LOT more that I didn't know. Simply put, "And I thought I knew a lot about literature?!" :)
The seminars have really helped me delve into the depths of the books I read. Now I can look at literature through different lenses to see what the author might have ment. That's really cool becaue before I usually just read the story, not try to figure out what the author was trying to say. I've already used this when I read Pride and Prejudice (again...) and I looked at it through a Marxism lens, Feminism and the Psychoanalytic lens focusing on something completely different every time.
I also really liked the different things we read. All the poetry was really cool and the short stories got me thinking.
I think knowing the five factors of stories will help me a lot when I am writing. I will remember all about style, audience, social contrast, genre and purpose. I learned that each part is important; you can't have just one with out the others.
I think that it's really cool that I'm going to be able to go back home and apply all those things to everything I read; literally everything: poems, novels, short stories, flash fiction - everything.
This week has taught me to look at more than just the words when reading a text. The part that really stood out to me was the fiver factors, meaning the purpose, social context, genre, style, and audience. Before, I have attempted to read books without really thinking about anything more than the plot and story itself. It never really occured to me that there was much more to a story. However, now that I've learned about this, it's easier to understand certain books, like Catcher in the Rye by Salinger. He's writing purely to entertain.
I've also learned about the different views I could take a piece. For example, through a feminist view, a post-colonial view, a marxist view, or a psychoanalytical view (just to name the ones we focused on). The different ways to examine a piece will come in handy when writing for both governor's school now, and for writing papers in the future. These methods of analysis could also give me a leg up when writing scholarship papers and other times when I'll be trying to stand out from a group. The lectures of this week will help me do that through my writing.
Of all we have learned in the past couple weeks, my favorite piece of education was that on literary lenses. Being the feminist and psychoanalytic person that I am, I feel that I already used these lenses in combination constantly. However, I now feel that I can better use these lenses. Also, the other two lenses we learned to use had never occured to me as perspectives through which I could try to see. This fact intrigues me to research other possible perspectives from which I could read some literature. I also enjoyed the rhetoric and learning about logos, ethos, and pathos. I now feel that in advertisements, arguements, and other such things in which rhetoric is involved, I will easily be able to spot these.
The seminars have helped me a lot. When I used to read poetry and stories I thought that the story could be set around any time, but using some of the clues in the seminar I've realized that some writers write about a specific time, like when we read about the bodies in the bogs. If I had read that poem alone I wouldn't have made the connection.
I also learned how to read and analyze stories through different lenses. You can look at things through a feminist view, like the poem we looked at today ("Indian Camp") the woman was barely acknoweledged and when she was, she was insulted. We have also learned to view things through a Marxist lens. Doing this you would look at the different classes in society.
We also learned about Psychoanalysis, which is analyzing something from a different point of view. And the fourth we learned about was postcolonialism, this is just a big word for analyzing how things have changed or stayed the same after big colonization..if that makes sense. All in all, I've learned quite a bit!
After the last two literature seminars, I have learned about the different lenses to read a text in such as; post-colonial, Marxist, feminist, and psychoanalytical.
Those different views of reading texts help to see the writing in a new way, perhaps how the author intended or may not have.
In rhetoric we can use three categories of persuasive writing called; Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Ethos refers to ethics (character) for example: a person's expertise or trustworthiness. Pathos refers to emotions and can appeal to fear, anger, humor, and sex. Logos is reasoning. By using logos you are stating the claims and evidence.
Both of these can give a picture or text new meaning every time.
I think that this crash course is intense!!! and it's awesome!!! I really like learning about the different ways to analyze literature. Looking through different lenses gives us a different view each time, and the meaning of actions and words change each time.
I've never heard of flash fiction before and it was interesting to read some.
I will definitely take these different techniques to read things home and apply them to things I read and write.
I have learned a great deal about reading during these Lit Seminars in these last few weeks. My favorite new way to analyze literature would have to be through the 4 literary lenses we learned about: Post-Colonial, Marxist, Feminist, Psychoanalytic. For my Literary Analysis piece, I analyzed the movie Avatar through a post-colonial lens. Post-colonialism deals with the concept of "colonized" and the "colonized"; concepts such as "The Other" and how the differences between the people who were there first and the ones that came after play a role in contextualizing the story. Marxism deals with the theories brought about by Carl Marx. Marxism always reminds me of Animal Farm by George Orwell. Marx is all about equality between classes - everyone shares everything with everyone, and that's the end of that. The feminist lens deals with the focus of the place of woman in a particular age/society. Lastly, psychoanalytic lenses analyze a text by picking about the minds of the characters and linking their actions to what they are feeling inside.
My second favorite new reading tool would have to be the 5 things you have to take into consideration when writing something or reading/analyzing something. You have to identify the purpose of the text (inform, persuade, entertain), social context (what society was like), genre (the genre..), style (the writer's style of writing: informal, formal, midlevel), and audience (who is the author is writing for/who he/she expected to be reading his work at the time of publication).
Having learned all of these new reading tools, I will never be able to read a book the same way again. (in a good way :)
I really enjoyed the literature studies portion of our English cram sessions. We got to read such a variety of short stories and poems in such a limited amount of time, and I believe that the ways we talked about them have helped me to perceive the stories differently from how I would have seen them while reading them on my own.
I thought he lenses thing was cool because I haven't really dealt with them in school before, so they are new to me.
Overall, I think the literary studies part has been very interesting, and I really like the conversations we have; they are poles apart from the ones I have in my usual high school classes. I appreciate their depth ;) I feel like I can say what I want.
So...I don't know what else we are supposed to post here...I think everything I've learned and heard about here will be beneficial to my future...My favorite subjects that we were exposed to are Visual Culture, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Creative Writing (especially poetry). That is still pretty broad...I really liked the literary analysis sessions and compositions studies as well! GAH! How do people even choose what to major in?
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