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Showing 1 to 20 of 410 for “"Criticism and interpretation"”.
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Sapphic reflections of feminine creative power and male interruption in the works of Virginia Woolf
With queer theory and gender studies, the knowledge that Virginia Woolf was probably bisexual has come to the forefront of scholarship concerning the writer and her works. With queer theory has come an interest in Sapphism, a term evoking Sappho, the only female lyric poet for whom any poetry …
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Negative Capability in the Characters of Keats' Magor Poetry
… term is redefined as a speculation on a style and ideal of life, as opposed to a style of art, and the contention is made that Keats found a voice for his speculations on "negative capability" in the characters of his major poems. The following poems are discussed: "Ode to a Nightingale, …
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Flannery O'Connor's Terrifying Vision
155 leaves.
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Returns-- towards a photographic criticism : [or, the case of the Berliner Bild-Bericht and the North American grain elevators]
While the idea of a canon made up of buildings and/or architects is widely accepted, studied, and revisited within architecture, this thesis identifies the phenomenon of a ‘photographic canon’ of images of buildings, constructed and characterised by their repeated dissemination in publications, …
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"Believe in these things": magical realism's postmodern use of religious language
Magical realism has expanded from a genre squarely located within postcolonialism to one that includes many non-colonial, Western writers such as Karen Russell and Helen Oyeyemi. Using Russell’s Swamplandia!, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl as representative …
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Anti-Oedipus en-procés : a comparative analysis of Kristeva and Deleuze & Guattari
… of Julia Kristeva as well as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari are fully engaged. These thinkers, the latter two being considered as one, have until now remained strangers to one another. Consequently much confusion has amassed concerning their respective philosophical, as well as …
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Receiving "The true name" : reading Lilith as a mystical dream-vision.
… penultimate novel, Lilith, has puzzled readers and critics alike with its strange symbolism and seemingly chaotic dreams. One's comprehension of the novel ultimately hinges upon the right interpretation of dreams. Those who ignore or gloss over the dream sequence as a mere plot device completely …
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Real vision and right language: Browning's poetics and metamorphosis
… an other-worldly existence for man after death and of a miraculous rebirth into earthly existence, carry inherent religious significance. But the poet has doubts about the efficacy of language to render them. Whereas some of Browning's personae communicate their understanding of the conditions …
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Negative capability and the poetry of John Keats
… “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “La Belle Dame,” and “Lamia” seems to indicate that Keats scholarship has even failed to integrate individual poems. The moment we suppose that we have found a stance toward experience which is the author’s, a diametrically opposite position can usually be found, if …
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Structure and meaning in Hardy's fiction: an examination of three major novels
<p>Thus, though there is a considerable amount of criticism on [Thomas Hardy’s] novels, there is a clear absence of any significant close structural reading. The study which follows proposes to fill this gap offering an examination of three novels that is neither synoptically nor microscopically …
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Kenneth Burke's relation to modern thought and literature
… him in selected contexts of modern thought and New Criticism designed to reveal his distinctive contribution as a theorist of language and literature.</p> <p>Most of the substantial studies of Burke that we have, like William Rueckert’s excellent book, <em>Kenneth Burke and the Drama of …
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Bernard Malamud and the struggle to connect
… of morality is recognizing one another’s needs and cooperating,” he is expressing in stirring understatement a concept that is at the heart of Malamud’s work. Malamud presents us with a world of dismal fact and moral possibility, and whatever is possible hinges on the necessary link between …
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The functions of language in the early tales of Henry James: 1864-1872
… to as wide as possible a variety of divergent interpretations of the tales; second, to illustrate how lightly certain stories have been touched upon by critics. Most importantly, though, it may help to clarify the choice of the term "language" as the pivot of my dissertation topic, by …
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Clifford Odets: playwright-poet
… of Odets represents what is perhaps the standard view: "Although his work transcends the social problems of the 1930's and yields characters of wider psychological and social validity, Odets’ plays, particularly the early ones, reflect an attachment to his times which precludes true …
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The city as metaphor in three works by James Joyce
… Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em>, and <em>Ulysses</em>, the location of the action is carefully described, and the reader is presented with various views of Dublin that are remarkable in their detail and vividness. Each of Joyce’s characters is carefully situated in his ambience. We …
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The sense of Conrad's endings: a study of the five major novels
… attempted to circumvent condemnations soon standard by concealing their novels beneath the artifice of other more accepted forms of discourse, the diary or epistle, for example. Or, like Fielding, they could maintain that their new creation was essentially a modified version of an established …
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