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Sound in Shakespeare's "Tempest": A Formalist Approach
This academic exercise takes a formalist approach to William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. It is not intended to be a well-developed...
Oct 13, 20185 min read


A Formalist Reading of "Woman Hollering Creek"
Note: This is an academic exercise that uses formalism (new criticism) to examine Sandra Cisneros’s short story “Woman Hollering Creek.” ...
Oct 1, 20186 min read


A Toolbox for Understanding Literature: Seven Critical Approaches
The toolbox of literary criticism offers us a variety of ways to tinker with the text until we have a better understanding. We can use...
Sep 26, 201811 min read
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