It also has subsections of prose, fiction, myths, novels and short stories. Oral literature includes folklore, ballads, myths and fables. The purpose of a literature review is to: Identify inconstancies: gaps in research, conflicts in previous studies, open questions left from other research.
Identify need for additional research justifying your research Identify the relationship of works in context of its contribution to the topic and to other works.
Literature is good if you can relate to it and it makes you reflect on different aspects of your life, or connections can be made. Literature is bad is you cannot make any connections to it or you cannot understand it. The study of literature is important because it, at its most basic, improves reading skills.
The study of literature also helps students see the world — people, places, things, events — through different eyes and by way of a different viewpoint. Great literature is based on ideas that are startling, unexpected, unusual, weighty. Great literature makes us see or think things we never did before. The ideas underpinning the work challenge our accustomed categories and ways of thinking, putting minds on edge.
We may agree, and also we disagree. A good literature review shows signs of synthesis and understanding of the topic. There should be strong evidence of analytical thinking shown through the connections you make between the literature being reviewed.
A good literature review ought to have proper grammar,spelling and punctuation. One of the qualities of Literature that makes it different from other areas of knowledge is its aesthetic beauty.
Poets, writers or authors use words that can make the readers visualize what they are reading. They can make the readers see the vivid colors of the various images being described by the authors.
So literature is timeless, because it can stay relevant over the years, even with the shifting issues of different generations. All literature is, anyway, rooted in the creative force of the human being, and humans, anyway, have collective truths, beliefs, and issues that need to be talked about and addressed. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Consider the following sentence which, devoid of context, sounds innocent enough:. But imagine that this statement comes from a transcript of court documents in Salem, Massachusetts, in during the famed Salem Witch Trials.
Religious fervor was at an extreme, and villagers were nearly obsessed with the devil and witchcraft. At that time, if a young woman were to tell a lie, it was fodder for hysteria and a violent reaction. A reader would assume that poor Sally was a candidate for the gallows. Now, imagine you're reading a letter from a mother that contains this sentence:.
How much information does this statement give us? Not much, until we consider when it was written. Should we discover that the letter was written in , we will realize that one sentence can sometimes say a lot. A young woman heading for California in might be following her husband on a treacherous treasure-seeking expedition for the gold rush.
This mother would probably be quite fearful for her child, and she would know that it would be a very long time before she'd see her daughter again, if ever. No work of literature can be fully appreciated or understood without historical context. What may seem nonsensical or even offensive to contemporary sensibilities, might actually be interpreted in a completely different manner by considering the era it is from. It is considered an enduring work of American literature and a biting social satire.
But it is also criticized by modern critics for its casual use of a racial epithet to describe Huck's friend Jim, a freedom-seeking enslaved person. Back in the mids, when attitudes toward newly liberated enslaved African Americans were often indifferent at best and hostile at worst, the casual use of such racial epithets wouldn't have been considered unusual.
In fact, what is actually more surprising, given the historical context of when the novel was written, is Huck's treating Jim not as his inferior but as his equal—something rarely portrayed in the literature of the time. Similarly, Mary Shelley's " Frankenstein" cannot be fully appreciated by a reader who is unaware of the Romantic movement that took place in art and literature in the early 19th century. It was a time of rapid social and political upheaval in Europe when lives were transformed by the technological disruptions of the Industrial Age.
The Romantics captured the public's sense of isolation and fear that many experienced as a result of these social changes. Scholars and educators rely on historical context to analyze and interpret works of art, literature, music, dance, and poetry. Architects and builders rely on it when designing new structures and restoring existing buildings.
Thirdly, once you know when it was created, you need to discover what significant event occurred at that time. Background research will be helpful in identifying this. Remember, you only care about events that directly influenced the creation of the source, not other events that occurred elsewhere in the world which are irrelevant. Finally, carefully read the information in the source to identify specific language, ideas, and terminology that you need to learn more about in order to make sense of the source.
Again, some background research might be required to understand any words with which you are unfamiliar. It is clear that he wrote this particular source to let his family know that he had survived the first day of battle. No personal information is collected as part of this quiz. Only the selected responses to the questions are recorded. Contact via email. Key Question 2. Background Research 3. Sub-questions 4. Source Research 5. Organise Quotes 6. Topic Sentences 7.
Hypothesis 8.
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