Criticism & Theory

The Knight With the Lion, or Yvain (Garland Library of

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Lentricchia likewise became influential through his account of trends in theory, After the New Criticism. Esty, Joshua D. "Excremental Postcolonialism." More recent inquiry in genre criticism centers on the bias often inherent in genre criticism such as its latent (or overt) racism and sexism." Between Philosophy and Social Science, Cambridge: MIT Press. Shortly after the turn of the century this influence was revealed in a series of important studies published by the Cambridge Hellenists, a group of British scholars who applied recent anthropological discoveries to the understanding of Greek classics in terms of mythic and ritualistic origins.

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The Wisdom of Kahlil Gibran

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Alternatively, when myths, like those listed above, are clearly identified and their repetition avoided, the realization of alternatives and broadly progressive research designs becomes easier and more natural. In more realistic modes the association becomes less significant and more a matter of incidental, even coincidental or accidental, imagery. The Russian Formalists were, in effect, the first stylisticians. At the end of the Purgatorio the soul reaches again its unfallen childhood or lost Golden Age, and Dante consequently finds him self in the garden of Eden, separated from the young girl Matelda by the river Lethe.

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October Vagabonds

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Determine the situation: How did the original setting aid or hinder the message? Davenant then explains why he has set his poem in Christian times. Other parallels between characters, that have been central to readings of the film since Robin Wood’s perception in his seminal chapter on the film in his 1965 book that ‘Each apartment … can be taken as representing possibilities before Jefferies and Lisa’,6 are also discreetly managed. Kadir, Djelal. "The Posts of Coloniality."

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The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath

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Sidney. “Notes on Cinderella.” In The International Folk-lore Congress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. The essays consider structural topology of tales, problems of historical morphologies, marriage and its function and position in the structure of folktales, and problems of structural analysis of fairy tales. II, 2) in a most surprising manner, instead of giving prominence to the person of the high priest, would then have declared that kings were to be the greatest blessings to come to the seed of Abraham ( Genesis 17:6 ,16); and while, on the critical assumption, we should have the right to expect the author to favor particularistic tendencies, he, by bringing in the history of all mankind in Genesis 1-11, and in the extension of circumcision to strangers ( 17:12 ,23), would have displayed a phenomenal universality.

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Beginning Ethnic American Literatures (Beginnings)

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Pp. 181-197. [“Myth is a product of the collective unconscious expressed symbolically in archetypal images” (p. 181). We saw in our survey of fictional modes that the poet never imitates "life" in the sense that life becomes anything more than the content of his work. The materiality of the signifier ‘goblins’ is brutally repressed: deprived of its concrete effectivity within an articulated set of discursive practices, ‘goblins’ becomes no more than a transparent sign within the order of discourse, to be endorsed or eradicated insofar as anything in the order of the real may be found to ‘fit’ with it, or insofar as anything in the order of the real may be deduced from it. [8] A parallel influence, which Eagleton often seeks to combine with post-structuralism, is that of Brecht and his stress on the concept of production.

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Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism

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There's a bunch of different branches of theory that all have different ways of approaching texts and making arguments about them. This publication is from a journal that may support self archiving. What literature was, and why we read literature, and what we read, were questions that subsequent movements in literary theory were to raise. "Formalism" is, as the name implies, an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text.

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A Straightforward Guide to Writing Performance Poetry

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Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger: from Cubism 1912. Competition is the driving force of our social system. While graphic descriptions of Puritan violence are highlighted, Pequot atrocities are brushed aside. In fact, it is likely that our disbelief of Charlotte’s story is as much a comment on our attitudes towards gender roles as it is an educated and thoughtful response to its clues. We should have to say, then, that all forms of melodrama, the detective story in particular, were advance propaganda for the police state, in so far as that represents the regularizing of mob violence, if it were possible to take them seriously.

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Screaming in the Castle: Selected Shorter Pieces

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And the Birds Began to Sing Religion and Literature in Post-Colonial Cultures. The focus in deconstruction on contradictions or unexplained textual phenomena is a key aspect of one of the prevailing schools of late-20th century thought. The evaluation of the CV is based on existing work and practice experience or study-relevant performances outside of the university which are important for assessing the aptitude of the student for the programme.

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Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education (Spirit of Thoreau)

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Hence the central episodic theme is the theme of the pure but transient vision, the aesthetic or timeless moment, Rimbaud's illumination, Joyce's epiphany, the Augeriblick of modern German thought, and the kind of non-didactic revelation implied in such terms as symbolisme and imagism. Drawing from such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, economics, art criticism and travel writing, Universal Experience is both a sizeable illustrated catalogue of the exhibition at the MCA, Chicago and a companion to the experience of >>more Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 272 pgs / 170 color.

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In Pursuit of Narrative Dynamics: A Study of James Phelan's

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The dolls and toys are created by adults for adult consumers. Ronstadt’s song (the darker thematics of which develop the garden’s own associations with nature’s cycle of life, death and rebirth) adds another dimension to Dickon’s links with the feminine, while the use of an ascending chorus of female voices as an aural bridge between the two shots also helps generate a feeling of the mother’s spirit being released and diffused out onto the moors.

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