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Presented by Nor Laili Fatmawati and Aminulloh
PASCASARJANA UNESA 2010
What is it for?
Analyzing a work of
literature
=
Giving value
Prose
Literary Genres:
- Poetry
- Drama
- Prose
Prose Genres:
- Short story
- Novel
- Novellete
Tips
1
Reading and understanding the text.
2
Choosing a part of the prose that will be the focus of
analysis.
3 Deciding the appropriate approach that will be used.
4 Looking for the theory.
Tips
5
Applying the theory on the prose.
6
Writing the report of analysis
The order of the 1st – 4th can be changed
First step:
Reading and
understanding
“The Orphaned
Swimming
Pool” by John
Updike.
SYNOPSIS
New Criticism approach
Second step:
Having focus
=
intrinsic
elements of the
short story
Third step:
choosing
theory
Russian
Formalism
Forth step: applying the theory
Form
verbal irony
Contents
situational irony
dramatic irony
paradox
Contents
rhyme that affects the
meaning
affective fallacy
intentional fallacy
Contents
ambiguity
Contents
“the well-wrought urn”
situational irony
tittle
“The Orphaned Swimming Pool”
2nd
It was a young pool, only two years old, of the
fragile type fashioned by laying a plastic liner
within a carefully carved hole in the ground.
1st
… There is the piano no one wants, the cocker spaniel no one can take
care of. Shelves of books suddenly stand revealed as burdensomely
dated and unlikely to be reread; indeed, it is difficult to remember who
read them in the first place. And what of those old skis in the attic? Or
the doll house waiting to be repaired in the basement? The piano goes
out of tune, the dog goes mad…”
The attitude of Ted’s neighbors and
other visitors of Ted’s swimming pool
2nd & 4th
dramatic irony
th
6
The two lovers had been trapped inside the house
all day; Ted was fearful of the legal consequences
of their being seen by anyone who might write and
tell Linda… For long thereafter, though in the end
he did not marry the woman, he remembered that
day when they lived together like fugitives in a cave,
feeding on love and ice water, tiptoeing barefoot to
the depleted cupboards, which they, arriving late
last night, had hoped to stock in the morning, not
foreseeing the onslaught of interlopers that would
pin them in.
intentional fallacy
The narrator stresses the order of the time
along the plot such as by telling “The next
May” in third paragraph, “Some June
weekend” in the forth paragraph, “July” in
the fifth, and “August” in sixth and
seventh, and “September” before the end
September
August
of the short story
July
June
May
How short the time and how many
changes were happened in that short
period during the divorce process of
Ted and Linda
ambiguities
Feeding on love
7th
6th
The blue plastic beneath the colorless water
tried to make a cheerful, otherworldly
statement, but Linda saw that the pool in
truth had no bottom, it held bottomless loss,
it was one huge blue tear. Thank God no one
had drowned in it. Except her
Writing the report
Theoretical Criticism
Practical / Applied Criticism
Impressionistic Criticism
Judicial Criticism
Mimetic Criticism
Pragmatic Criticism
Expressive Criticism
Textual Criticism
L/O/G/O
Thank You!