Personal Bias Project Your Personal Bias Paper is an exploration of topics and issues for which you have a bias or limited scope. Select at least two issues for which you have a bias; identify the bias, explore the sources of this bias, and consider options for not allowing this bias to create a roadblock […]
Explain the disadvantages of emphasizing background information, such as historical context when critiquing a poem. What are the advantages and disadvantages of emphasizing personal bias and emotion when critiquing a poem?
Task Literary Criticism New Criticism was a school of literary criticism that emerged in the mid-twentieth century. It rejected the traditional critical view that literature should be studied in the context of the author’s life, views, and purpose. Instead, New Critics such as John Crowe Ransom and William K. Wimsatt stated that a work of literature must […]