In the history of literature, novels, poetry, and long exotic epics were made by many great men. Some of which extends beyond the boundaries of human capabilities like the mahabharata and the aenid. Some are written in a very detailed manner which delves the depths of the old English language like Shakespeare’s sonnets.

The Philippine Literature had been transferred from one generation to another through word of mouth, it was not only after the latter that local authors were able to fully utilize the way of writing in order to preserve an individual/community’s norms, cultural practices and on how they perceive life.

The is a Literary Criticism about Bury Me in a Free Land by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper using Deconstructionist and Biographical Criticism

If by Rudyard Kipling is a Poem made way back during the late 1800’s. This is a literary analysis will be using the Psychoanalytic and American New Criticism strategy.

In Greek mythology the universe created the gods, rather than the other way around. Heaven and Earth existed first as vague entities, and their children were the Titans. The children of the Titans were the Olympians, the principal Greek gods. The Titans, or Elder Gods, ruled the universe until the gods overthrew them. Cronus (in […]

The word archetype is from the Greek arkhetupon, first mold or model, in the meaning of being the initial version of something later multiplied.

Figures of speech are words or phrases that depart from straightforward literal language. Figures of speech are often used and crafted for emphasis, freshness, expression, or clarity.

Psychoanalytical criticism seeks to explore literature by examining how the follow issues are represented:

Literary theory • Remember – it is a “lens” through which we look at literature • Takes us away from the basic “high school” ways of analyzing literature – Theme, Setting, Symbolism – Character motivation, Plot, etc.

Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or more broadly, by the politics of feminism. It uses the principles and ideology of feminism to critique the language of literature.