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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Literary critics"”.
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Students as Literary Critics: The Interpretive Theories, Processes and Experiences of Ninth Grade Students
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 69367 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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The influence of the English literary critics of the sixteenth century on English verse from 1590 to 1599
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University
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A Freudian <i>Dream</i>: Interpretations of <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> by Psychoanalysts and Psychoanalytically Informed Literary Critics
… by Freudian and post-Freudian clinicians, and by literary critics influenced by psychoanalytic theory. The primary material is principally taken from the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing database, and includes 37 papers or chapters by psychoanalysts and some by psychoanalytically informed …
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Augmenting free-form annotations with digital metadata for close reading of poetry
Many people, literary critics in particular, practice close reading, making annotations by hand while performing a detailed analysis of a text. Current digital tools for literary criticism,however, have many limitations with respect to annotation. In this work, we present an ethnographic study of …
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The Reception of the Works of Contemporary Chinese Glam-Writers in Mainland China
… of reception by three reading constituencies: literary critics, actual women readers, and participants on the glam-writers’ personal blogs. Drawing in part on western reception theory and reader-response criticism, this thesis focuses on the role of the reader in reading and interpreting the …
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The reader and the page : textual gaps, textual arrangements and images in prose fiction
… thepage has been largely neglected by previous literary critics. The materiality of the bookas an object is also fundamental to the understanding of some of the idiosyncratic devicesin the novels featured as examples here.The three main chapters of this thesis explore the implications that …
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The Evolving American Landscape in Edgar Lee Masters's [Sic] Spoon River Anthology
Since its original reception, literary critics have relegated Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology to "revolt from the village" literature causing the deeper cconcerns that Masters addressed in the Anthology to be overlooked, or dismissed. These concerns center on variations of two myths that …
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Reading Lacan reading: Freudian theory, literary text
… texts demonstrate a reading practice useful to literary critics. However, Lacan's reading practices remain largely unexplored by English-speaking critics because his reception has led to a conflation of Lacanian theory with Marxism or semiotics. Moreover, Lacan' s mature register theory seems …
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Kipling and imperialism : the literary significance of the setting of certain short stories and poems that relate to war conditions and to service in India and at sea
The fundamental opposition of certain literary critics is reviewed. It is evident that much of the antagonism results from Kipling's allegedly tendentious presentation of imperialism, and from the dispute over forms of political dominance. The purpose of this study being to examine the nature and …
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Rhetoric and literary criticism in the early Scottish Enlightenment
… of the Scottish contribution to rhetoric and literary criticism has begun to be fully recognised by historians and literary critics. Men such as Hugh Blair, Adam Smith and George Campbell have now been afforded a just place in the canon of literary critics. However, the period before the 1760s …
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The Other Plot in The Ambassadors
… love without raising condemnation from moral and literary critics.</p>
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Literary Dialect In Flannery O'Connor's "The Lame Shall Enter First" And "Good Country People"
… methods along with R Studio to gather data about literary dialect utilized in Flannery O’Connor’s short stories “Good Country People” and “The Lame Shall Enter First”, I argue that not only was O’Connor a gifted author in her portrayal of African American English and Southern English, but that her …
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Popular Tradition in the Senegalese Novel
… has generated a new wave of interest in African literary criticism. Consequently, the socio-cultural approach is being re-examined, but it remains, however, the most widely used form of critical analysis in the study of African Literature. Solomon O. Yasere's concept of "cultural formalism" makes …
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Poetry and politics on the American homefront, 1914-1918
… aesthetically distanced modernist poems which literary critics favor. Genteel poets and editors reflected closely the country's official posture towards the war, as they moved steadily from outrage at the war and professed neutrality to advocacy of American intervention. This shift is apparent …
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Breaking the rules : three novels innovating genre fiction
… certain texts that straddle the line between literary and genre fiction go unrecognized for important innovations. After establishing the rules and conventions of dystopian fiction, the hardboiled detective novel, and the zombie apocalypse narrative, I attempt to show how three novels subvert …
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Ways of reading the constitution
… the approach of judicial activism. Drawing from literary theory, this thesis outlines Stanley Fish and Robert Scholes’ approaches to reading. Fish, like judicial activists, subordinates the text to the reader. Scholes, like Crosskey, argument for textual primacy. These literary critics mirror the …
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"A Soft Lad the Like of You": Complex Father-Son Relationships in Three "Millennial" Irish Texts
… fathers and sons in three highly successful literary texts that grapple with Irish nationalism: Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, and Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People. Each text comes from a different historical moment, but each of these …
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Social identity in Shakespeare's plays : a quantitative study
This thesis takes three major claims made by literary scholars about Shakespeare's use of language regarding issues of social identity. Each chapter introduces a critical perception of Shakespeare's language - madness (Neely 1991), whorishness (Stanton 2000, Stallybrass 1986, Newman 1986) and …
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Building the Fransaskois Identity through Drama
… Fransaskois literature within Saskatchewan’s literary landscape. Literary critics have to this day mostly excluded Fransaskois literature from the concept of Saskatchewan literature, and yet a close look at Fransaskois texts reveals an identity deeply anchored in Saskatchewan’s landscape, …
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The Gastonia Novels and Ecofeminism: Rereading the Works of Fielding Burke Grace Lumpkin and Myra Page.
… the works of instrumental Appalachian scholars, literary critics, and historians as well as major landmark texts in the field of ecofeminism such as Kathy Warren's <em>Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature</em> and Greta Gaard's <em>Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature</em>, purposes to advance the …
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