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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"New Criticism"”.
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Poetry Without Paradox: The Limitations of The New Criticism of The Lyric
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The Spirit of Exemplarity: The Role of Example in Lyric Studies
… 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 practice of exemplification and their attitude …
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The poetic self in the English ode, 1740-1820
… Wordsworth, and Keats. With the rise of New Criticism in the 1930s, genre criticism has been neglected. The importance of the individual poem has led to ignoring the context or labeling process of poems which share a group of common characteristics in form and purpose. The English ode in …
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Spalding Gray's Life As Art Story: Toward A Critical Perspective Of The Autoperformance
Spalding Gray's "life as art" stories represent a new intergeneric genre in theatre and in literature. During this century, Gray's autoperformance has emerged as part of a new oral tradition. Using the form of the one-person show, he and other autoperformers transform their lives into art, as they …
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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 Human …
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A Mock Rhetoric: The Use of Satire in First-Year Composition
… genre and the once dominant school of literary criticism known as New Criticism, focusing on New Critic Robert Penn Warren’s work with seventeenth-century satirist, John Marston.
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A reader-response approach to Susan Sontag's Death Kit
<p>I did not come to reader-response criticism because I understood it to be of importance to my critical methodology; it was, instead, suggested to me, and as I seemed to be in need of a label to lend legitimacy and focus to my reading of Death Kit, I latched on to it. As an approach to reading, …
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The value of literature: the disparity between 'Practical Criticism' and 'Modern Literary Theory' with a case study of Thomas Hardy
… 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 Practical Criticism is as …
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"Words Are No Good": The Curse of Signification and the Curse of Faulkner's South
… as it appears in French Symbolism and later, New Criticism. In my chapter on As I Lay Dying I focus on Addie Bundren’s identification with the silent presence of the natural world. She despises words because they indicate a lack: her experiences with her children and with nature transcend …
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"Words Are No Good": The Curse of Signification and the Curse of Faulkner's South
… as it appears in French Symbolism and later, New Criticism. In my chapter on As I Lay Dying I focus on Addie Bundren’s identification with the silent presence of the natural world. She despises words because they indicate a lack: her experiences with her children and with nature transcend …
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Bàrdachd Baile an Naoidheamh Linn Deug – Ath-mheasadh
… h-èifeachdach tro dhlùth-sgrùdadh a leithid<br/>New Criticism; mar an ceudna, air sgàth ’s gun robh na bàird fhèin agus an<br/>luchd-èisteachd aca air am bogadh ann an dualchas beul-aithris na Gàidhlig,<br/>feumar a chumail an cuimhne gun tug seo buaidh air an t-saothair aca, cho<br/>math ris na …
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An annotated bibliography of works both by and about Cleanth Brooks 1977-1984
… (excluding entries pertinent to Faulkner); Criticism; and Miscellaneous. These entries will be arranged chronologically within each section, but will not be divided into groups according to author. This content grouping is intended to facilitate use by a reader who has a particular subject …
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A "new literary history" of modern poetry: history and deconstruction in the works of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson
… and Postmodern poetry is largely the work of New Critics and New Critically trained academicians. Although there have been recently some attempts to deal with Modern poetry from non-New Critical standpoints, they have not succeeded. Indeed, a deconstruction of the rhetoric of the New Critics …
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The Impact of Offering Students Choice in Close Reading on Their Attitudes and Achievement
… Standards. Although it finds its roots in the New Criticism movement, only recently has it caught the attention of the primary and secondary education communities. Close reading centers on in-depth analysis of complex texts through text-dependent questioning. Traditional close reading …
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Contexts for <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>
… a widely read and studied, text. The voluminous criticism and analysis produced in the sixty years since the appearance of this, Joyce’s first, novel has done more to obscure and dull its impact on the reader than to reveal its authentic and disturbing nature. A similar, though worse, kind of …
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Curriculum Studies the Creative Student: A Winnicottian Literary Analysis
Generalizations are made regarding the importance of creativity because creativity is considered to be the hallmark that sets humans apart from other animals. Creativity is a highly coveted gift that allows people the outlet by which to achieve greater joy, fulfillment, and meaning in their lives. …
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The Dancer Walking The Ruins: Laura Riding and Dialectical Thought
… follows. Riding was born Laura Reichenthal in New York City, 1901. Her father, a Jewish émigré, was a committed activist for the left and included Riding in his campaigning at a very young age, immersing and educating her in the political and philosophical radicalism thriving in New York’s …