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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"I. A. Richards"”.
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Verse and its Sciences, 1880-1971: William Carlos Williams, Laura Riding, George Oppen, I. A. Richards and Veronica Forrest-Thomson
… of poetics. My final chapter examines I. A. Richards’s criticism from the 1920s and 1950s alongside the poetry of Veronica Forrest-Thomson, positioning Richards’s work on linguistic ‘instruments’ as one discrete moment in the development of the ‘normal science’ of poetic criticism. I also …
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The value of literature: the disparity between 'Practical Criticism' and 'Modern Literary Theory' with a case study of Thomas Hardy
… Eliot, William Empson, F. R. Leavis, and I. A. Richards (‘Practical’, or ‘New’, Criticism); Homi K. Bhabha (postcolonialism); Terry Eagleton (Marxism); J. Hillis Miller (deconstruction); and Elaine Showalter (feminism). In the process, the thesis also investigates whether the old guard of …
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The canon of memory and rhetoric as a way of knowing in selected Miranda stories of Katherine Anne Porter
… rhetorical theory explored specifically by I. A. Richards and Michel Foucault. Foucault's concept of epistemes, which controls both knowledge and utterances that are acceptable in any given historical period, is examined in the Miranda stories as well. The first part of the dissertation provides …
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The Spirit of Exemplarity: The Role of Example in Lyric Studies
Recent work in lyric studies has been dominated by two opposing camps: the historicism of the ‘New Lyric Studies’ and the attempt to defend a trans-historical category of lyric, most notably by Jonathan Culler. This thesis begins by claiming that these two camps have something in common: their …
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William Cave (1637-1713) and the Fortunes of Historia Literaria in England
This thesis is the first full-length study of the English clergyman and historian William Cave (1637-1713). As one of a number of Restoration divines invested in exploring the lives and writings of the early Christians, Cave has nonetheless won only meagre interest from early-modernists in the past …