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Literary Criticism in Newman
… on Newman is being presented, and why Newman's literary criticism is being discussed. | Each year the name Newman is more and more entering into modern life. In the past decade of years hundreds of clubs bearing his name have been formed. Cardinal Newman is discussed as a theologian, historian, …
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The literary criticism of Walter Benjamin
… Instead I shall concentrate upon his career as a literary critic and investigate how he supported his ambition: "d'être considéré comme le premier critique de la littérature allemande. La difficulté c'est que, depuis plus de cinquante ans, la critique littéraire en Allemagne n'est plus considérée …
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Useful Works: Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Education
… twentieth 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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The Literary Criticism of H. L. Mencken
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Jungian and Post-Jungian Literary Criticism, 1980-2000
… thesis attempts to update Jos van Meurs' Jungian Literary Criticism 1920-1980 by compiling a bibliography of secondary Jungian and post-Jungian works written between 1980-2000. While van Meurs' bibliography is an invaluable tool for critics interested in Jungian literary criticism, contributions …
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Richard Rorty and the Cultural Politics of Literary Criticism
… that the influence of political readings of literary texts could be harmful to political discourse. In particular, he cautions against the growing popularity of political “readings” over political “arguments.” Compared with traditional arguments, readings are, Stow argues, poorly suited for …
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Richard Rorty and the Cultural Politics of Literary Criticism
… that the influence of political readings of literary texts could be harmful to political discourse. In particular, he cautions against the growing popularity of political “readings” over political “arguments.” Compared with traditional arguments, readings are, Stow argues, poorly suited for …
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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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Reading and Writing As/if: US Literary Criticism and Identity
<p>As/if: US Literary Criticism and Identity turns to early queer and third-wave feminist scholarship to identify a unique strategy and style of literary criticism, which I name as/if criticism. As/if criticism is both born of and resistant to two conflicting imperatives in the US academy, which …
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Curriculum Evaluation and Literary Criticism: The Explication of an Analogy
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Responsible responding: the ethics of a literary criticism of the Other
… in Attridge’s tour de force on the theory of literary invention, The Singularity of Literature. In it he spins a complex, nuanced and powerful idea about the nature of literature as event in which the notion of otherness, or alterity, plays a primordial part in the advent of the literary. In …
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Indigenous tradition and the colonial legacy : a study in the social context of anglophone African literary criticism.
… the social meanings of anglophone African literary criticism as an ideological discourse. It begins by engaging with Marxist critical traditions, with particular reference to two areas of debate: the question of the epistemological relationship between literature and criticism, and the …
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Towards a <i>Literary Criticism</i>: Lowry, Durrell, Dolores, and the alchemical balance between critical and creative writing
… position of aesthetics in contemporary literary discourse. Rather than fit the novels <em>Under the Volcano</em> and the <em>Alexandria Quartet</em> into normative Kantian or New Critical frameworks, I follow the course of alchemical allusions in Lowry’s novel and relate them to the …
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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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