A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

Selden, Raman; Widdowson, Peter; Brooker, Peter

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“…Raman Selden (2005) argued that Historicism was the offspring of Hegelian idealism and several major 'historicist' studied literature in the context of social, political and cultural history. According to Palmer (1987), Historicism is usually reserved for that approach to literature which sets it in the context of ideas, conventions and attitudes of the period in which it was written.…”

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Multicultural Education as Seen in Forrest Carter’s the Education of Little Tree

Kristianto

2017

IJHS

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This paper's primary purpose is to examine the concept and the impact of multicultural education that is seen in The Education of Little Tree. This paper employs American Studies perspective and Historicism theory in order to obtain the purpose of the study. Using American Studies perspective, this research views Native Americans as indigenous people of America. Using Historicism theory, this research is able to uncover the concept and the impact of multicultural education in the novel by viewing the socio-historical context that is referred by the novel and the socio-historical context when the novel was written and then published. Based on the analysis, it can be concluded that the concept of multicultural education that is seen in the The Education of Little Tree is similar to the concept that is promoted by the experts of multicultural education. The education that is given by the grandparents promotes cultural pride, knowledge of historical information of a culture, and respect towards other cultures. Furthermore, there are several positive impacts of multicultural education that is seen in The Education of Little Tree, they are: first, children possess cultural pride; second, children possess the historical knowledge of their own culture; third, children possess the cultural knowledge of other cultures in their society; and fourth, children respect other cultures in their society.

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Section: Theorymentioning

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Multicultural Education as Seen in Forrest Carter’s the Education of Little Tree

Kristianto

2017

IJHS

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“…Many elements of target concepts come from source domains and are not preexisting. Mark Schorer (cited in Selden, 2008) calls this a difference between content or experience and the achieved content as technique-a means of discovering, exploring and developing his subject and conveying his meaning.…”

Section: The Domain Of Conceptualizationmentioning

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Conceptualization and Linguistic Expression: Using Religious Poetry in ELT

2014

ALLS

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Religious poetry is, a heightened and impregnated form of expression. There is a marriage of form and sense. Linguistically speaking, religious poetry has a conceptual interface between syntax and semantics; a strong relationship between language and thought; universality and cultural specificity; the discourse context and the psychological environment of linguistic performance. This papers, tries to investigate how this unique genre of religious poetry be used to teach and understand the mode of conceptualization? Which language items can be taught? How does language synergize itself to open its door to create such innumerous possibilities? An attempt to answer these aforesaid questions is done by structuring this paper into three sections viz. Language and Conceptualization, The Domain of Conceptualization, Teaching English Language Items.

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“…(Hutcheon, 1988, p.45) And Raman Selden states "the past is not something which confronts us as if it were a physical object, but is something we construct from already written texts of all kinds of which we construe in line with our particular historical concerns." (Selden, 2004, p.188) According to these academics, there is no unified, grand history but histories narrated by historians with subjective choice and propensity to satisfy his or her own ideological and political prejudice and preference and nobody can transcend the historical situation.…”

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“…With the introduction of history into the study of literature, new historicists hold the view that "there is no single 'history', only discontinuous and contradictory 'histories'." (Selden, 2004, p.189) Randall Stevenson (1991) in The Last of England concludes that "questions about the reliability of historical narrative-or any narrative-extended much more widely towards the end of the 20th century. "(p.448) The postmodern uncertainties provoked the thinking of historians, literary critics, the academics and the writers worldwide.…”

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Retrieving the Past—The Historical Theme in Penelope Lively’s Fictions

Lv¹

2016

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Abstract-PenelopeA predominant theme running through her literary world is her consistent focus on history. This essay intend to study Penelope Lively's understanding and interpretation of history, and draw this conclusion: Although a complete understanding of history is impossible, yet as we realize our subjectivity and misunderstanding of history we can try to understand it in a new way and integrate it into the present life.

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A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory

Cited by 148 publications

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Multicultural Education as Seen in Forrest Carter’s the Education of Little Tree

Multicultural Education as Seen in Forrest Carter’s the Education of Little Tree

Conceptualization and Linguistic Expression: Using Religious Poetry in ELT

Retrieving the Past—The Historical Theme in Penelope Lively’s Fictions

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