I am just beginning an English Literature degree and your videos are so helpful. I was feeling totally overwhelmed by all these new concepts but your videos help to break them down into an understandable format, thank you.
Hey dude. Just want to say this was great. I'm a teacher myself, teaching university in China so I've been searching for some videos that'll help me express literary criticism in a way that my second-language students would be able to understand and you've given me some great ways of doing just that with this video. Seriously, thank you and well done.
+John Lawrence Halliburton Great! Glad you find them useful! I created them for my high school students to get a first taste of criticism, but I've gotten a lot of feedback from college students who enjoyed the simple look at the different methods. Also, kudos on the work in China! Very cool. I had an old friend who did that for a few years. I also teach a version of Journey to the West in my literature course and enjoy discussing China and its literature then. Thanks again, and good luck!
+Tim Nance (NanceNotes and Narwhals) Wow, thanks for the reply! I would say high school in native English speaking countries is probably about the equivalent level of most Chinese students, so it should work out in the coming semester. I actually did watch that video of yours too when I noticed it! Journey to the West is really as ingrained into Chinese culture as Shakespeare's work is in English-speaking countries. But yes, I do admire your videos a lot! I have been watching quite a few different people make similar videos and I do tend to find there's at least *something* in yours that I think provides a kind of simple method of understanding that the majority of others miss. Your work has been invaluable. Thank you so very much :).
Damn .... I'm a literature student from India... And the way you simplified and explained the topic... I would bow and touch your feet for imparting me such a knowledge in my understanding! Thank you sir!
The style by which you are dealing the topic is very very intresting and I really wanna clap for that. Keep Making videos like this related the Literature.
Absolutely lovable presentation. I was clapping and smiling when you asked me to subscribe (which I did immediately!). There is so much to learn from you as a teacher. Respect!
YOU SAVED MY LIFE 😢😭😭. THANK YOU SO MUCCHHH!!!. CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT POSTMODERNISM AND MODERNISM? THANKYOOUU 😍💕😘💕. YOU HELPED ME SO MUCHHHHHH!!!!!!!
I also wish I had a teacher like you, Mr. Nance. Honestly, I learn a lot more from you than our professor who also teaches us this lesson. Thank you so much. Anyway, shared this to my classmates, hope they'll have fun too while listening to this lesson of yours.
Sir Please Make a detail analysis on topics - 1. An Apology for portray 2. Praface to Lyrical Ballads. 3. Biographia Literaria. 4. Principles of Literary criticism. Please sir discuss the above mentioned topics .... Respect from India...
I watched all 7 vids that go with Literary criticism, and I gotta say that if it weren't for these vids I would've not understood wth Purdue OWL and my professor was trying to explain. Thank you so much for making it easy to understand and actually teaching me something.
Would you do a video about Formalism? I feel like everything I find about it is very general. It's helpful for me to see concrete points lol. Like *this *this *this is what it IS. I feel like I keep finding vague explanations. Love your videos! And I apologize if I missed this video if you already made one about Formalism.
Really appreciate your videos. They are very easy to follow and after each video I feel like I have a thorough understanding of the subject. You're a gifted teacher! Thanks for sharing.
This video is great! It's very helpful and understandable. I've been searching for some good explanations especially in literature stuff, and I've perfectly found this! I am a third year college English major and I am just learning to love and embrace literature. Looking forward for more vids. God bless, sir?
This video not only delivers the concept of literary criticism but also explains the playful and enjoyable part of it. I am greatly influenced by this and will try to go through all the other videos of yours.
hello Mr. Nance, that's a great video, i just wanna ask what is the full title of texts and context book's and also who is the author of that book... thank you, btw this video is very usefull.... :)
I really don't like this course, because it does actually take the enjoyment out of literature. Its shocking to me that students from outside of the English literature department are taking this course as a free elective, because they are interested in taking a literature course. I be like "are you crazy!!!!! Anyway, this video was truly helpful, thank you.
Tim Nance, you are amzing. I had seen many videos to understand what is literary criticism but I haven't found any best video than yours. I had learn a lot from your videos. Thank you soo much and keep sharing such amazing knowledge. student from Pakistan.
It is the systematic breakdown of experience I like cultural anthropology but literary criticism also resonates with me as semiotics for the symbolic dimension.
First,thanks a lots for your effort.and because we are in the field of (criticism),I first criticise you about your speed in explanation.we are not born american .reduce your speed .we need your lessons.
Great video! Loved it I hope we can learn to write about subjects like: How can a literary text be open to various readings! because these kind of questions is what we have on our exams and it is a little bit tricky to begin writing! Thank you
Thank you SO much for your videos on literary criticism! I'm studying literature in university and found this topic so overwhelming but you break it down and make it so easy to understand as well as being really engaging! thank you :) Subscribed!
@@luisvillarnyc hello! I'm someone from the future. I just wanna ask if you still have a copy of your paper, we are also doing a paper regarding literary criticism. If that's alright with you, we would love it so much💓
This will be very helpful to my class. I have my Literary Criticism class right now and I didn't know anything about it and I happened to have opened this video and YES I'm very glad that I happened to have crossed on your channel! Hope to meet you someday and talk about literature and so on! :) Thank you so much.. I now have a background of LC! yehey!
Oh thanks God I finally found you! I've only come across some indians when it comes to literary criticism, nothing against them I am just disturbed by the accent. Can't stand it!
Hei, sir... Can u pls detail on the works of Foucault...... Your method of class is amazing..... Even a non native of English can understand the essential core....Thnkuuuu so much.....
I wish literary theory, even at the most basic level, was taught in high school, or at least the very idea that there is not just one fixed reading of a text. (Or maybe this is the way it's taught in high schools and mine just didn't get with the program.) These are great videos!
+Peter Carman Definitely! I dislike the idea that there's only one reading available. It doesn't simplify the study, but merely makes it monotonous. Who wants to reproduce everything a teacher says about a text when you can actually get creative and think? I prefer my students to stretch their brains and try out some ideas.
I took literary theory and criticism and most of it did not have anything to do with literature (from perspective of fiction). It was more about understanding human construct. Being consciously aware to what we have been conditioned into. There was critique of human nature, human thinking, human reality. What we read was excerpts of philosophers that criticized politics, orientalism, subalternity, sexuality, etc. People like Karl Marx, Zizek, Nietzsche, etc. From this video, would you even like my explanation?
Greetings from Tamil Nadu, India Sir. Hearty thanks & kudos to you sir. I'm listening your lectures for d way you are explaining concepts & also d enthusiasm you spread it's really awesome... Boundless... Salute for ur charismatic lectures from rural corner of India.
This, and the other videos explaining what literary criticism you've made, help me a lot to understand what literary criticism is and how to use literary criticism to examine the contents of a book or a painting, or a movie.
Sounds mostly like subjective drivel apart from historical and genre-specific considerations. A bit like unqualified literary types attempting to pass themselves off as psychologists or social scientists. And the latter are mostly too subjective as it is. Attempting to pass themselves off as either philosophers or hard scientists.
I came here because I post a critic on someone's art and then people began cancelling me and when I cleared my point some stopped because they get it and some just don't care about my point and keeps dissing me, they're also calling me a kid just because I look young in my pfp even though the pic is 2 years old and I already hit puberty. what are those guys btw?
+atheer saud These terms have to do with the way language and structure add emphasis to certain points in a text. Foregrounding is technique of making the reader pay attention to a part of the text either because of parallel regularity (like a rhyming couplet at the end of a free verse passage) or because of irregularity (like a shift in meter from iamb to trochee in the line of a sonnet). Doing so forces us to notice this part of the text and draws out meaning. As the term implies, it draws meaning to the foreground. Backgrounding is the opposite concept; it means to lessen in significance. Aspects of the text or patterns we think we see at first may become backgrounded as other more significant details are foregrounded. In other words, both concepts have to do with the interaction between form and meaning. These terms are useful particularly if you are trying a New Critical or Formalist theory, which emphasize close reading and the interplay between form and content. Does this help?
Since you're the best teacher to clarify things can you do a video on what is literature? After theory has confused people and magic realism is hard to read and no one is able to define literature and only the old book of hudah does can you give us a new view a on what is literature
This is one of the milestones I need to meet in my academic journey - the ability to critique literature. If you have other materials that can help me do share
I would probably use them interchangeably. If I were to look for a nuance, I might say that the theory could be the concept and the approach could be the application.
I watched this in 2017 when I was doing my BA 6 years ago, and now in 2023 am watching it while doing my MA, incredibly useful, much gratitude.
I wish I had a teacher like you!
+Ruth Allio Oudri Well, feel free to ask question on here!
we all do
So true, fortune to have a teacher like you sir.
You are
Ruth Allio Oudri honestly my teacher makes it so horrifying that I literally cry myself to sleep the fear of failure is real
I am just beginning an English Literature degree and your videos are so helpful. I was feeling totally overwhelmed by all these new concepts but your videos help to break them down into an understandable format, thank you.
Glad I could help! Good luck with the English Lit degree! I think you'll find it very rewarding! Let me know if you have any questions!
Hey dude. Just want to say this was great. I'm a teacher myself, teaching university in China so I've been searching for some videos that'll help me express literary criticism in a way that my second-language students would be able to understand and you've given me some great ways of doing just that with this video. Seriously, thank you and well done.
+John Lawrence Halliburton Great! Glad you find them useful! I created them for my high school students to get a first taste of criticism, but I've gotten a lot of feedback from college students who enjoyed the simple look at the different methods. Also, kudos on the work in China! Very cool. I had an old friend who did that for a few years. I also teach a version of Journey to the West in my literature course and enjoy discussing China and its literature then. Thanks again, and good luck!
+Tim Nance (NanceNotes and Narwhals) Wow, thanks for the reply! I would say high school in native English speaking countries is probably about the equivalent level of most Chinese students, so it should work out in the coming semester. I actually did watch that video of yours too when I noticed it! Journey to the West is really as ingrained into Chinese culture as Shakespeare's work is in English-speaking countries.
But yes, I do admire your videos a lot! I have been watching quite a few different people make similar videos and I do tend to find there's at least *something* in yours that I think provides a kind of simple method of understanding that the majority of others miss. Your work has been invaluable. Thank you so very much :).
Damn ....
I'm a literature student from India...
And the way you simplified and explained the topic... I would bow and touch your feet for imparting me such a knowledge in my understanding!
Thank you sir!
Hahhah mai bhi college ke assignment ke liye hu idhar
@@richasolanki7436 mein bhi bhai⊂(•‿•⊂ )*.✧
Aur ab mein bhi
me too
This is the video I've been searching for for a long time and finally, I've found it. Thank you, Mr. Nance.
Thank you!
Well, our teacher gave your video to us as a homework..
same here bruh
I teach this subject to my undergraduate students. Thank you very much for your insights and tips. I find it really spot on and useful. Cheers.
The style by which you are dealing the topic is very very intresting and I really wanna clap for that.
Keep Making videos like this related the Literature.
Absolutely lovable presentation. I was clapping and smiling when you asked me to subscribe (which I did immediately!). There is so much to learn from you as a teacher. Respect!
YOU SAVED MY LIFE 😢😭😭. THANK YOU SO MUCCHHH!!!. CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT POSTMODERNISM AND MODERNISM? THANKYOOUU 😍💕😘💕. YOU HELPED ME SO MUCHHHHHH!!!!!!!
I also wish I had a teacher like you, Mr. Nance. Honestly, I learn a lot more from you than our professor who also teaches us this lesson. Thank you so much. Anyway, shared this to my classmates, hope they'll have fun too while listening to this lesson of yours.
Sir Please Make a detail analysis on topics - 1. An Apology for portray
2. Praface to Lyrical Ballads.
3. Biographia Literaria.
4. Principles of Literary criticism.
Please sir discuss the above mentioned topics .... Respect from India...
I watched all 7 vids that go with Literary criticism, and I gotta say that if it weren't for these vids I would've not understood wth Purdue OWL and my professor was trying to explain. Thank you so much for making it easy to understand and actually teaching me something.
Thank you. Very informative. I now understand myself a little better.
Would you do a video about Formalism? I feel like everything I find about it is very general. It's helpful for me to see concrete points lol. Like *this *this *this is what it IS. I feel like I keep finding vague explanations. Love your videos! And I apologize if I missed this video if you already made one about Formalism.
Thanks! No, I don't have a video yet on Formalism, though a lot of it is similar to New Criticism. I'll try to make one when I get time.
Really appreciate your videos. They are very easy to follow and after each video I feel like I have a thorough understanding of the subject. You're a gifted teacher! Thanks for sharing.
This video is great! It's very helpful and understandable. I've been searching for some good explanations especially in literature stuff, and I've perfectly found this! I am a third year college English major and I am just learning to love and embrace literature. Looking forward for more vids. God bless, sir?
This video not only delivers the concept of literary criticism but also explains the playful and enjoyable part of it. I am greatly influenced by this and will try to go through all the other videos of yours.
your video made my day, I never thought learning would be so excited if I have a teacher like you..
hello Mr. Nance, that's a great video, i just wanna ask what is the full title of texts and context book's and also who is the author of that book...
thank you, btw this video is very usefull.... :)
I really don't like this course, because it does actually take the enjoyment out of literature. Its shocking to me that students from outside of the English literature department are taking this course as a free elective, because they are interested in taking a literature course. I be like "are you crazy!!!!! Anyway, this video was truly helpful, thank you.
Nagalit teacher namin saamin kaya nandito ako kasi ayaw nya kami turuan hehe lab u maam
Who else here came from the link given from their english subject modules?
This guy would have a creepy girl mannequin
Tim Nance, you are amzing.
I had seen many videos to understand what is literary criticism but I haven't found any best video than yours. I had learn a lot from your videos.
Thank you soo much and keep sharing such amazing knowledge.
student from Pakistan.
"don't wait for me to tell you what the right answer is, very likely I'm not going to" xD
As a postgraduate student of English literature, i must say you got some pedagogic skills. Props to you. Keep up the good work.
You're very kind!
It is the systematic breakdown of experience I like cultural anthropology but literary criticism also resonates with me as semiotics for the symbolic dimension.
Thank you for simplifying what literary theory is and the different examples to illustrate its meaning.
First,thanks a lots for your effort.and because we are in the field of (criticism),I first criticise you about your speed in explanation.we are not born american .reduce your speed .we need your lessons.
Did you know you can adjust the speed of a video? Use the settings to slow it down.
Great video! Loved it I hope we can learn to write about subjects like: How can a literary text be open to various readings! because these kind of questions is what we have on our exams and it is a little bit tricky to begin writing! Thank you
Thank you SO much for your videos on literary criticism! I'm studying literature in university and found this topic so overwhelming but you break it down and make it so easy to understand as well as being really engaging! thank you :) Subscribed!
Glad I could help!
Thank you for explaining the subject so clearly 🙏🏻🌸
I wish I had u as my teacher 😣... sir if u have time plz make a video on structurelism ....
and thanku so much for teaching us
At 4:03 of this video ruclips.net/video/3viekW3AnRA/видео.html is the best example of criticism.
Loved all your videos about Literary Criticism! I'm doing a research paper and I'm going a bit crazy LOL... thanks a lot!
Luis Villar Glad I could help! Good luck on the research paper! What's it over?
No, I'm working on it. Right now! LOL
@@luisvillarnyc ik this is old but he meant what is the subject lol xD
@@luisvillarnyc hello! I'm someone from the future. I just wanna ask if you still have a copy of your paper, we are also doing a paper regarding literary criticism. If that's alright with you, we would love it so much💓
Good evening sir...
I Am a literature student....i want to ask you that ..
Who was the first Literarey Critic?
Hahah that student would be me... It was totally the case with me in my first year of English Literature 😂😂😂 SYMBOLISM SYMBOLISM EVERYWHERE... 😂
It's useful to learn by myself! Thank you!
Ms paynes class where u at
Thanks, Ms. Payne.
'ello
This will be very helpful to my class. I have my Literary Criticism class right now and I didn't know anything about it and I happened to have opened this video and YES I'm very glad that I happened to have crossed on your channel! Hope to meet you someday and talk about literature and so on! :) Thank you so much..
I now have a background of LC! yehey!
Can't remove my eyes from your outfit to pay attention on the lec.
Wow, I never knew literary criticism could be so enjoyable. Thanks so much
4:59 I need my lecturers to tell me this
Oh thanks God I finally found you! I've only come across some indians when it comes to literary criticism, nothing against them I am just disturbed by the accent. Can't stand it!
I want you to be my teacher
You are amazing at explaining. Thank you so much. :)
You're the best, thank you for this
watching these videos and taking notes is my homework, your videos are way more interesting than I thought it was going to be thank you.
+theacer250 Glad to exceed your expectations! Who's assigning me? Let me know if I can answer any questions!
Hei, sir... Can u pls detail on the works of Foucault......
Your method of class is amazing..... Even a non native of English can understand the essential core....Thnkuuuu so much.....
pls explain marxism too Mr. Nance
You're a really wonderful, energetic, and smart teacher.
I really loved your energy. Thanks for the interesting and clear explanations. :)
Great to be here! Loved this!
Come to India and teach at our college
lol: *cry*teria
*cry*tear*ia lol
You are funny. I love that.
I am a literature student and really struggling with the new course of literary criticism.. :(
I just watched 5secs of this video and I'm already smiling
watching this while taking care of our store by the road...🏍🏍🚘🚘🔊🔊
For me this is very useful. I learned a lot from this. I hope you make a video regarding other literary criticism approach. Looking forward. :)
I wish literary theory, even at the most basic level, was taught in high school, or at least the very idea that there is not just one fixed reading of a text. (Or maybe this is the way it's taught in high schools and mine just didn't get with the program.) These are great videos!
+Peter Carman Definitely! I dislike the idea that there's only one reading available. It doesn't simplify the study, but merely makes it monotonous. Who wants to reproduce everything a teacher says about a text when you can actually get creative and think? I prefer my students to stretch their brains and try out some ideas.
8 years later, I must admit that you have a fantastic way of interacting and explaining. love from Morocco
Can you make videos about literary theory!? .. I'll be so thankful ..
@Tim Nance
Hii.. I'm from India.. and I enjoyed this video 😊..Thnx.
Your video's link is on my module:) you made me understand it more
Glad I could help!
I took literary theory and criticism and most of it did not have anything to do with literature (from perspective of fiction). It was more about understanding human construct. Being consciously aware to what we have been conditioned into. There was critique of human nature, human thinking, human reality. What we read was excerpts of philosophers that criticized politics, orientalism, subalternity, sexuality, etc. People like Karl Marx, Zizek, Nietzsche, etc. From this video, would you even like my explanation?
Greetings from Tamil Nadu, India Sir. Hearty thanks & kudos to you sir. I'm listening your lectures for d way you are explaining concepts & also d enthusiasm you spread it's really awesome... Boundless... Salute for ur charismatic lectures from rural corner of India.
LOL the fact I saw this video and shared the same name as your mannequin was really funny to me. It must be a sign XD!!
Ha! That’s fantastic! She’s named after the Welsh legend (and the Stevie Nicks song). How about you?
@@Nancenotes Yess!! UR SO COOL!!! So was I :) I hear my family say it’s a welsh goddess, but I mainly got it from Stevie Nicks song.
I think that you are the best so far!!! I congratulate you for that
Bravo!!!!
I love how I came across in your video. I love it. Entertaining ang informative. My favorite one was in DECONSTRUCTION CRITICISM😂 the singing part tho
This, and the other videos explaining what literary criticism you've made, help me a lot to understand what literary criticism is and how to use literary criticism to examine the contents of a book or a painting, or a movie.
Thanks. I really like the way you present the abstract terms of literature. Could u please make more videos like this?
Sounds mostly like subjective drivel apart from historical and genre-specific considerations. A bit like unqualified literary types attempting to pass themselves off as psychologists or social scientists. And the latter are mostly too subjective as it is. Attempting to pass themselves off as either philosophers or hard scientists.
Ooo thanks a lot 😍😍that was clear for me
It is the first time I understand
I came here because I post a critic on someone's art and then people began cancelling me and when I cleared my point some stopped because they get it and some just don't care about my point and keeps dissing me, they're also calling me a kid just because I look young in my pfp even though the pic is 2 years old and I already hit puberty. what are those guys btw?
sir could you please explain Dryden views on three unities... ?
Hi Mr. Nance.
Can you please explain foregrounding and backgrounding
+atheer saud These terms have to do with the way language and structure add emphasis to certain points in a text. Foregrounding is technique of making the reader pay attention to a part of the text either because of parallel regularity (like a rhyming couplet at the end of a free verse passage) or because of irregularity (like a shift in meter from iamb to trochee in the line of a sonnet). Doing so forces us to notice this part of the text and draws out meaning. As the term implies, it draws meaning to the foreground. Backgrounding is the opposite concept; it means to lessen in significance. Aspects of the text or patterns we think we see at first may become backgrounded as other more significant details are foregrounded. In other words, both concepts have to do with the interaction between form and meaning. These terms are useful particularly if you are trying a New Critical or Formalist theory, which emphasize close reading and the interplay between form and content. Does this help?
+Tim Nance (NanceNotes and Narwhals) thank you so muchhhh
Wow
I'm here last year, and now I'm back again.
It's for my sister last year, now it's mine. I forgot what it is.
I hope I get a high score.
Thank you for explaining the subject so clearly 🙏🏻🌸
Since you're the best teacher to clarify things can you do a video on what is literature? After theory has confused people and magic realism is hard to read and no one is able to define literature and only the old book of hudah does can you give us a new view a on what is literature
Rihannon is my spirit manikin
This is one of the milestones I need to meet in my academic journey - the ability to critique literature. If you have other materials that can help me do share
My bad guys I forgot to say according to bleach report
I Want Some Explain About Literary Criticism
Hello, Mr. Nance. May I please know what's the difference between literary approach and literary theory? Thank you.
I would probably use them interchangeably. If I were to look for a nuance, I might say that the theory could be the concept and the approach could be the application.
Very helpful - Thanks - excited to use this in my classroom.
I learned so much from you than my Eng teacher.
hi,thank you so much tim. i want to know about moral philosophical criticism?
i gave him a like in the start itself for the warm welcome(even though the moment reminded and represented of a mouse)
Thank you! I guess it pays to be friendly!
I love how you look like a Timelord in your videos
your answer to my question was just perfect
really thank you
Grad im watching this before exam. Thank you so much
Loved that you gave so many examples ❤️
Thanks a lot 🙏
you make it so easy to understand, thanks for making a student's life easier!
Watching all your videos today for a recertification test. You are kind of giving me life right now, and I think you are awesome. :) Thank you!
Thanks! Good luck on the test!
Great Videos, very helpful! thank you so much :)
You deserve GOLDEN SUBSCRIBE
Excellent teacher