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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"History of Literary Criticism"”.
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Chaucer's "Naked Text" and the Tradition of the Medieval Sublime
… challenges the familiar notion that the literary theory of the sublime did not exist during the middle ages. Analyzing the Latin tradition from the patristic period through the late medieval period, I argue for the vibrant presence of the sublime by documenting its centrality to medieval …
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Nonfiction and Fiction: Does Genre Influence Reader Response?
This study explores aspects of the theoretical basis of Louise M. Rosenblatt's transactional theory of reading and its focus on the reader's efferent and aesthetic stances during transaction with nonfiction and fiction. The study explores the following questions: Does genre (nonfiction or fiction) …
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Verse and its Sciences, 1880-1971: William Carlos Williams, Laura Riding, George Oppen, I. A. Richards and Veronica Forrest-Thomson
From experiments conducted at the Stanford Literary Lab to recent calls for an “ordinary science’ of literary criticism, researchers in English have increasingly looked to the sciences to provide new frameworks for textual analysis. But the knowledge exchange between scientific explanation and …