The presentation were all really well put together and i enjoyed watching and listening to all the different theoretical theories. It was interesting learning the new theories with different approaches from each of the groups and then learning how they applied it to a certain piece of literature. They were all easy to follow and learn from unlike other presentation i've seen in the past. The use of engaging material and video clips made watching and learning the material more entertaining and helpful overall. The two presentations I really got the most information retained from would be the Queer theory and New Historicism.
The Queer theory group did an awesome job describing the theoretical framework as well as applying it to their literary piece. I learned from this group what exactly is queer theory which is the challenging assumptions of sexual identity, gender, and sexual differences, maintaining that our identities are not connected to our supposed essence but to what we do and who we are. On top of all that i learned the term social constructivism which is basically how people formulate ideas about certain words and change its meaning. I also enjoyed this presentation because they incorporated many movie clips from Brokeback Mountain which helped implement these ideas.
New Historicism was the other theory which i found interesting since i like the idea of history being subjective rather than objective. It opens the mind to new view points and helps us understand what was really happening in certain texts. Of course with this literary criticism I learned the most influential figure for it was Greenblatt since the group really put some emphasize on who he was and what he did for new historicism. The examples given to us like the Nazis and the pilgrims where really interesting to learn about because it cemented how the past is really not just viewed one way. This taught me that the their are many discourses on how to view the world ultimately.
-Leo
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