Essays about: "Historicist Criticism"

Found 2 essays containing the words Historicist Criticism.

1. 1. Rediscovering Beatrice and Bianca: A Study of Oscar Wilde’s Tragedies The Duchess of Padua (1883) and A Florentine Tragedy (1894)

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Minon Weber; [2020]
   Keywords : Oscar Wilde; Victorian Literature; Drama; Theatre; 19th Century Literature; Renaissance Drama; Theatre; Elizabethan Drama; Jacobean Drama; A Florentine Tragedy; The Duchess of Padua; Wilde; Wilde Studies; Transgression; Feminist Criticism; Historicist Criticism; Genetic Criticism;

   Abstract : Towards the end of the 19th century Oscar Wilde wrote the four society plays that would become his most famous dramatical works: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The plays combined characteristic Wildean witticisms with cunning social criticism of Victorian society, using stereotypical characters such as the dandy, the fallen woman and the “ideal” woman to mock the double moral and strict social expectations of Victorian society. READ MORE

3. 2. Satire and Social Criticism in C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength

   University essay from Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språk

   Author : Marika Österberg; [2012]
   Keywords : literary criticism; social criticism; satire; dystopia; fantasy; evil; Tower of Babel; philosophy; theology; history; social science; psychology; magnanimity; totalitarianism; laboratory animals; education;

   Abstract : The essay at hand is a New Historicist reading of C. S. Lewis’ dystopian fantasy novel That Hideous Strength. According to New Historicist theory it is informed by many disciplines, namely, philosophy, history, literary theory, theology, social science, and psychology, and it attempts to lessen injustices of race and class. READ MORE