By reading the end of the story, the author Herman Melville describes Benito Cereno as a hero who has managed to save his life and the lives of some Spanish sailors from the rebelled slaves. We see that Benito […]
In the chapter 6 “Narrative” by Jonathan Culler, the author discusses about the correlation between event, plot and discourse. We realize that in the twentieth, the narrative has bec […]
I found your explanation on the metaphor very interesting, particularly how we can connect the words used as metaphor to our knowledge and experience to better understand poems.
In the poem “The Sea is History” by Derek Walcott, we can identify poetic technique that Culler describes in chapter 5 and the first four lines in this poem illustrate that fact. in the first line he asks, “wh […]
In the “Literature, Meaning, and Interpretation” by Culler, the author discusses the connection between language and meaning. One of the ideas from this chapter that attract my attention is literature language can […]
In the “The nature of literature”, the author Culler defines “literature” from several angles. I found the angle “literature as fiction” the most interesting and useful. There are many ways to interpret o […]
in the second paragraph, I totally agree with Geraldine that we can have different opinion regarding reading and interpreting what we understand about the text.
In the Literary Theory by Jonathan Culler, the most of important aspect of this section of the chapter is how it is difficult to give a definition of literature. According to the author, a child or some […]
My name is Saikou Sounounou Bah, I am from Guinea that is in the west Africa. I have been living in United States since 2015. I am a Laguardia student and my major is business administration. I […]
Language communication is significant for interaction between different communities or cultures. Nowadays, many people are using the new digital technology to overcome the obstacle […]
I agree with this writer that it will be difficult to live without the technology such as smartphone and computer. On the other hand, we become dependent to those devises.