Week Summaries

Week sixth summary

This week we make our oral presentations, every pick a interesting topics like the history of the tower of babel, where we get two funny dramatic presentations, or normal presentations about what is language, culture, stereotypes, etc... In my case, my group, formed by me, Benjamin Ugarte and Fernando Nuñez, presented about the cultural misunderstandings produced by stereotypes. It was a very interesting topic and i think the presentation was quite good, as was the others. 

After we listened to all the interesting presentations we go back to the study of literature, where we saw how does the way we study literature have change through time, From the Greeks to the post colonial criticism, passing through Romanticism, Scientific determinism, New Criticism, Reader Response, Structuralism, Post structuralism, Marxism, Feminism and Cultural Poetics. Each theory propose a way so analyse texts and literature, and each one have it pros. and cons. although i think that cultural poetics and reader response where for me, the mos convincing