Essays on Literary Criticism

Margate Mead's Letter to Derek Freeman Margate Mead wrote a letter with respect to Freeman’s two letters dated May 10, 1968, and October 3, 1968. Derek Freeman had previously challenged and opposed the ideas of Mead in the book Coming of Age in Samoa. In the letter, Mead addressed some of...

In his essay 'What is an Author,' Michel Foucault based his attention on the notion that the author is socially created. He argued that the literary author had come into being in the eighteenth century, and that the possession of the book was separated as an indication of the elements...

Postmodernism in Literature Postmodernism in literature includes, among other aspects, the use of inconsistency, ambiguity, and the difference in the development of narratives. Obviously, Paul Auster's "City of Glass" rebuffs and courtesy the realism and builds itself around coincidences, doubles, and superimpositions. It also combines the postmodern themes of intertextuality, metaphysical...