a level lit crits

Lit Crit on Individual loss (Okara)

Arthur Ravenscroft - for Okara such individual loss is paralleled by a wider, cultural loss’

Lit Crit on Human Nature (Okara)

Obi Maduakor - ‘the anger of the faults and foibles of human nature”

poem treated (Okara)

Issac I. Elimimian - ‘He treats them (poems)  dispassionately and objectively, without distortion and without exaggeration

Colonisation (Okara)

Ngugi Wa Thiongo - Colonialism normalises the abnormal

Linguistic Process (Okara)

Brenda Marie Osbey - “His blending of Ijaw linguistic structures with English…an essential step in decolonizing African literature

Environment (Okara)

Nachukwu-Agbada - ‘Okara’s poems are full of rustic imageries’

proto-feminist lydia (Pride and Prejudice)

Paula Byrne - ‘Lydia could be described as a proto-feminist, as she refused to conform to the protocols of courtship behaviour.’

feminist icon (Pride and Prejudice)

Zoe Williams - ‘Nevertheless, it is a tough call to find a feminist icon in a woman who hates her sex to please her father.’

intelligence (pride and prejudice)

Susan Morgan - ‘Austen is concerned not with the possessions of intelligence but with the uses to which it is put.

Elizabeth appearance versus reality (Pride and Prejudice)

James Sherry on Elizabeth: ‘Like Elizabeth, we have trusted ourselves too implicitly to qualities like liveliness, openness, and apparent good nature, without really questioning their ultimate value’

social participation (pride and prejudice)

James Sherry on Social Participation: ‘For in such a world social participation could be a duty, a delight or a danger’

depression (pride and prejudice)

Sebastian Faulks - ‘Darcy’s reply makes clear who he is - a man suffering from chronic depression, dwelling on the past, but unable to take responsibility for his own actions’

mrs bennet social grievance (pride and prejudice)

Bharat Tandon - ‘Mrs Bennet can be seen not as an aberration within the world of Pride and Prejudice, but more as an excessive, pathological response to a genuine social grievance.

on charlotte lucas marriage (pride and prejudice

Joshua Rothman - ‘She can’t marry up or down - she can only marry sideways’

satirist (pride and prejudice)

Edward Wagenknecht - ‘Austen saw life from the satirist’s angle’

characterisations themes (pride and prejudice)

James Sherry - ‘Her characterisations always serve thematic as well as mimetic purposes’