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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Practical criticism"”.
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The value of literature: the disparity between 'Practical Criticism' and 'Modern Literary Theory' with a case study of Thomas Hardy
… 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 Practical …
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Making White Guilt Fitting
… of direct moral culpability while addressing practical criticism that white guilt is at variance with the aims of social justice movements. Taking on Baldwin's perspective on whiteness as a subjective choice, I develop an Identity-Based Account of white guilt describing the emotion as tracking …
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Useful Works: Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Education
… century, focussing on the project of literary criticism, as distinct from the project of literary scholarship. It demonstrates that literary criticism's characteristic methodologies of "close reading" and "practical criticism" were initially created as the tools of a broader project of …
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Moments of Revision: Thomas Hardy and the Modern Manuscript, 1890-1928
… in printing, typewriting, and literary criticism. The fourth chapter then attends to the material particularities of manuscript production, moving between paper and stone in its readings of Hardy’s designs for monumental inscriptions, which are positioned alongside the poems they …
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Gu Tang Shigui and the making of commented poetry anthologies in the seventeenth century China
… criticized after the Ming fell, the scholars’ criticisms also ironically show the deep and far-reaching influence this anthology had been. Chapter two explores the genesis and developments of pingdian style commentary in history. I demonstrate that Zhong Xing and Tan Yuanchun devoted almost all …
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The academic vocation in Geoffrey Hill and J. H. Prynne
… fourth chapter looks at Prynne’s teaching of the Practical Criticism course at Cambridge in the 1960s, in order to better understand his sense of pedagogical responsibility, both to students and to readers of his poetry. With close reference to exercise handouts he devised for undergraduates, it …
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THE VIOLENCE WITHIN AND WITHOUT: IMAGINATION AND REALITY IN THE NOVEL
… in each sphere of activity. In two chapters of practical criticism, I analyze Middlemarch and Our Mutual Friend with regard to the imagination/reality conflict as it applies to the authors, characters, and readers of these texts. I demonstrate that there is a close correlation between those …
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The alienation of humans from nature: media and environmental discourse
… respectively. The early stories engaged in practical criticism with a focus on the future, while the later stories leaned toward technical enthusiasm, comfort and convenience. Nature is depicted as slow and getting in the way of the technology and people are not complete without GPS. Some …
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The Spirit of Exemplarity: The Role of Example in Lyric Studies
… for a practice of exemplification in lyric criticism which attends to individual poems without an ultimate appeal to a general conception or the pursuit of historical and cultural knowledge risks being dismissed on the grounds that it is ‘New Critical’: politically and methodologically …
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William Cave (1637-1713) and the Fortunes of Historia Literaria in England
… they developed in response to the immediate practical concerns of the post-Restoration Church of England even as they reflected some of the deeper-lying tensions of late humanist scholarship. The second reason for writing a thesis about Cave is that it makes it possible to reconsider an …