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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Literary Art"”.
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
… Gate of Angels, finding in their statements of artistic independence grounds for gathering them under the term “modern.” Each self-consciously prioritizes the aesthetic, defending art’s freedom from ideological co-opting: Marvell’s speaker declares freedom from doctrinal authority, social …
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Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art
… Gate of Angels, finding in their statements of artistic independence grounds for gathering them under the term “modern.” Each self-consciously prioritizes the aesthetic, defending art’s freedom from ideological co-opting: Marvell’s speaker declares freedom from doctrinal authority, social …
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A Theory of the Animate Form of Literary Art: Kind-normativity, Criticism, and Axiology
… the possibility of experiencing a work of literary art as literature is conditioned by concept of literature or whether we can just get on with reading literature without such a concept. I begin with the question: is a concept of literary art necessary? I explore some key discussions of …
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Literary art as experience: teaching young adult literature, moral inquiry, and the personal journey toward meaning
… experience in the classroom. This is due, in part, to the gap that exists between theory and practice, where those who work in the classroom find little relevance in the theory discussed and researched on the university level. This dissertation is an attempt to begin bridging this gap. Yet …
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Loving Lo: The Dialectic of Self-Transcendence and Self-Assertion as Illuminated by the Literary Art of Nabokov's Lolita
… need for autonomous selfhood and our need to be part of a larger reality, a balance that paradoxically requires us to surrender the self that we have struggled to establish. Using Lolita to explore this dynamic process, the thesis integrates aesthetics, religion, and depth psychology in a …
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The problem of faith and the self: the interplay between literary art, apologetics and hermeneutics in C.S. Lewis's religious narratives
… by considering carefully the inter-mixture of literary art and Christian apologetics within the texts and the relevance of the reader’s role to the textual experience. In other words, the whole study is oriented to combine literary analysis, apologetic reading and “hermeneutical” reflection …
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John G. Neihardt as an Epic Poet
… discovering the influences social, economic and literary, that caused the poet to turn exclusively to this form of literary art, when he was already on the road to success in another channel, namely, the short story. But, when we fully realize that all human achievements are preceded by a …
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Henry James in the Debate on an American Literature
A practicing literary critic during most of his career. Henry James believed literary criticism the cumulative and cuminative literary art. As a "compromise between the philosopher and the historian," James wrote, the literary critic "should unite in himself the qualities which are required for …
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The Philosophic Basis of G. K. Chesterton's Literary Criticism and the Implications of His Theory of Literature for Contemporary Criticism
Anyone who reads, even sketchily, in modern, literary criticism is certain to be struck by one thought: that the theories and opinions of serious critics differ to an almost incredible extent. A book, for example, like Wellek and Warren's Theory of Literature — which aims at propounding a new …
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Small Fires
… entitled Small Fires, which is a work of literary fiction focused largely on the physical and psychological growth of its protagonist. The purpose of this thesis is to utilize the traditions of the Bildungsroman novel in order to create a work that conforms to the expectations of literary …
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A Bloody Yesteryear and a Brighter Tomorrow: Late Cold War Anti-Heroes in the 1980s Graphic Novels of Alan Moore and Frank Miller
… time period in the development of the graphic literary art form.</p>
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The "Aesthetic" of the Blues Aesthetic
… aesthetics to African-American vernacular literary criticism. New methods of scansion, informed by literary and linguistic prosody, are developed to measure previously neglected or misclassified innovations in verse practice. Chapter 1 argues that the versificational structures of the blues …
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Literature between two worlds : the first fifty years of the Xhosa novel and poetry
… Christianization. This history has haunted Xhosa literary creativity from its early beginnings to the present. The success of the mission to convert them to Christianity was anchored on the principle of total alienation of the Xhosa from their world-view: from their culture, from their religion, …
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Satirical narrative in early Irish literature
… the origins of satire and how it developed as a literary art from magical curse to its more sophisticated form. The relevance of possible external influences will also be considered. Initially the Mellgleó n-Iliach episode from TBC I will be discussed in the light of alterations made to it by the …
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Picturing the Text: Illustrated Editions of Marlitt, Raabe, and Storm in the Age of the Industrial Book: (1857-90)
… literature was a serious, albeit embattled, literary mode for adults. Informed by book history and image-text studies, I argue that book illustration provides insights into how literary works were read and re-interpreted in the second half of the nineteenth century. My study examines six …
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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
… Parallels with the following texts form the heart of the thesis: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, William Godwin, Caleb Williams, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer. This investigation has …
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Randall, or The Painted Grape and Beyond Ekphrasis: The Role and Function of Artworks in the Novels of Don DeLillo
… ‘Beyond Ekphrasis: The Role and Function of Artworks in the Novels of Don DeLillo’. Randall, or The Painted Grape is a novel about the Young British Artists. It takes the form of a fictitious biographical memoir of an artist, Randall, written by his friend Vincent, after Randall’s death. This …
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"Is Not the Past All Shadow?": History and Vision in Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats
… conferred by the national legacy of literary prophecy. The subversive and transformative elements of the vatic tradition in England, particularly as established by John Milton's aesthetically and politically radical work, appealed to both older and younger Romantic writers who sought …
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The Venetian Ghetto: An Experiment in Containment, 1516-1866
… comprised of the History of Ideas, Social Art History, and Literary Studies reveals the unique role it played in cultural assimilation. The Senate decree of March 29, 1516 states, “two high walls shall be built to close off the other two sides [of the Ghetto], which rise above the canals, …
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Alterpieces: Artworks as Shifting Speech Acts
Art viewers and critics talk as if visual artworks say things, express messages, or have meanings. For instance, Picasso’s 'Guernica' has been described as a “generic plea against the barbarity and terror of war”, forming a “powerful anti-war statement”. One way of understanding meaning in art is …
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