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Analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's The Defence of Poesy

Liam Haydon

The Defence of Poesy is the first major piece of literary criticism in English. Taking aim at classical authors who disparaged poetry, and contemporary critics who saw literature as a corrupting … [lees verder]

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Analysis of William Wordsworth's Preface to The Lyrical Ballads

Alex Latter
Rachel Teubner

The Preface is a statement of Wordsworth’s poetic vision and offers an explanation of the poetic process behind the poems, which fused the rusticity of the ballad form with the psychological … [lees verder]

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Analysis of Pankaj Ghemawat's Distance Still Matters

Alessandro Giudici
Marianna Rolbina

Distance Still Matters is an influential Harvard Business Review article. In this work, Ghemawat proposes the CAGE distance framework that allows firms to consider four dimensions of international … [lees verder]

Analysis of James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds

Nikki Springer

In Wisdom of Crowds, New Yorker columnist, Surowiecki, explores the question of whether the many are better than an elite few – no matter their qualifications – at solving problems, promotion … [lees verder]

Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author

Laura Seymour

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, Death of the Author, argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of … [lees verder]

Analysis of Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences

Tim Smith-Laing

Delivered at a conference on structuralism at Johns Hopkins, Jacques Derrida’s Structure, Sign, and Play took aim at the critical and philosophical fashions of the time and radically proposing a … [lees verder]

Analysis of Michel Foucault's What is an Author?

Tim Smith-Laing

Foucault's 1969 essay What is an Author? applies the same approach to the central figure of literary criticism: the author, asking, against the grain of our intuitions, whether an “author” is truly … [lees verder]

Analysis of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic

Rebecca Pohl

In their extensive study of nineteenth-century women’s writing, Gubar and Gilbert offer radical re-readings of Jane Austen, the Brontës, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot and Mary Shelley tracing a … [lees verder]