New Criticism Was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century. ... Another new critic is W.K.Wimsat gave two ideas: - Intentional fallacy - Affective fallacy New criticism discarded both terms. ... They deal with the study of literature as literariness. ... Propp presented two terms to solve this problem, the first is actor and the other is function. ... Whereas post-structuralism applies linguistic insights to literary texts. ...

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Hughes himself described it in less positive terms, sating that it was actually the time during which Harlem was briefly a fad. ... He describes these days as in terms of innocence and indolence. ... The stanza ends with the literary equivalent of a Cubist subject. ... These elements of his life that he describes in Not Without Laughter certainly seem to be reflected throughout his literary career. ... It makes extensive use of the very same literary Cubism, the same dual-identity themes that run through the rest of his work. ...

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Contemporary Literary Criticism. 1 (1973): 377-378. ... Contemporary Literary Criticism. 3 (1975): 546. ... Contemporary Literary Criticism. 9 (1978): 585. ... Contemporary Literary Criticism. 21 (1982): 461-462. ... By the end Bigger has come to terms with his actions as the only option he had in the circumstances his oppressors offered him. ...

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Question No. 1: Discuss the characteristics of Puritan Age in your own words, along with interesting literary examples. ... Characteristics of Puritan Age: The literary pieces of work produce in the Puritan Age have some specific characteristics which are not very broad in range. ... However, this historical literature is quite controversial in terms of subjects and interpretation. 2: Personalization: Puritan Age marked with the works which were highly personalized as they were produced only for the personal purposes and not for the sake of public. ... Religion got exclusive importance and h...

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In each of these two literary pieces, Frost and Welty each present a persevering individual who arrives at the end of their life's journey, with much to show for their life choices. ... In analyzing these two works, there is the initial most obvious difference, which is the choice of literary form. ... Similarly, Welty's work "is most intriguing in terms of its ability to defy simple explanation" (Saunders, 1992, p. 62). ... Welty's use of third person limited omniscient presents just as much support to the theme of purpose and perseverance along life's journe...

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Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century's major poets." and a leader of the modernist movement in literature T.S. ... This city had a monumental and life-altering impact on Eliot for multiple reasons, the most significant of which was his introduction to the influential literary figure  Ezra Pound. ... If one categorized Eliot's careers, he would probably be regarded as editor, dramatist, literary critic, and philosophical poet. ... His undergraduate ...

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Hardy tends to use many of the literary techniques, but mostly those of kennings and aprorias in his poetry (poems). ... Hardy uses the literary techniques of aporia, kennings, hendiadys, personification, and alliteration in "After a Journey-. ... Another literary term that Hardy uses is hendiadys, which is the use of two words connected by a conjunction, instead of subordinating one to the other, to express a single complex idea. ... Some of the literary techniques Hardy uses in "The Haunter- are: aporia, alliteration, enjambment, kenning, imagery, and antistrophe. ...

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Although these oddities are typically found in human imagination, the use of their myth and lore has been spun into many great literary works over the centuries. ... When boiled down to its most common form, the supernatural primarily exists in the literary device that is known as "Good vs. ... " Good and Evil and are such relative terms, but, they represent the most popular theme when it comes to the supernatural. ...

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In light of this, this critique shall use the Feminist Literary Theory. ... The critique hopes to be faithful to the principle of Feminist Literary Criticism in that it will be "an academic approach to the study of literature which applies feminist thought to the analysis of literary texts and the contexts of their production and reception" (Goodman xi). ... The irony, however, is that she did not use this power to dictate terms within the relationship. ... This is very characteristic of a literary stereotype which shall be labelled the Feminine Female. ...

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Stavans describes the work, "The entire volume is a gathering of memories, a literary attempt to make sense of the past (Stavans "Daughters" 9)." ... "A second leitmotif also colors the plot - her indomitable need to describe, in literary terms, her feelings and immediate milieu (Stavans "Daughters 8)." ... The irony almost reaching humorous, that it is the unmistakable definition of literary racism. ...

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Howard Brody has written a terrific book called Stories of Sickness. I am going to talk to you about some ideas in this book which I have found helpful in thinking about experiences of sickness--my own and others-- and in thinking about experiences of 'story',--as storytelling, as fiction and fact t...

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When Ibsen appeared on the literary screen, drama was almost non-existent in Norway. ... Ibsen experienced multiple shifts in dramatic mode and philosophy as he slowly came to terms with the intellectual, spiritual and emotional forces that were at war within his psyche. ... Ibsen's early works included two verse dramas: The first, Brand (1866; first produced in 1885), dramatized the tragedy of blind devotion to a false sense of duty; the second, Peer Gynt (1867), related, in allegorical terms, the adventures of a charming opportunist. ... The play aroused ...

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William Shakespeare, undoubtedly the most famous literary figure of all time, wrote many plays in his lifetime including four major tragedies - Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello. ... We must, however, also look at Othello's social rank in relation to others - he is a general, one much needed by the state, as the Duke said "Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you/Against the general enemy Ottoman- [1.3.48-49] In terms of importance, he is ranked much above that of Roderigo, a suitor of Desdemona described as a "gulled gentlemen-. ...

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A brief introduction to the Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance is a literary movement also known as "New Negro Movement" or "Negro Renaissance". The literary roots can be traced by writers like Charles W. ... Sterling Brown, a participant of the Renaissance, even denied the Renaissance being a literary movement. ... Writers of the Renaissance were in the vanguard of the attempt to come to terms with black urbanization; they lived it, reflected on it, and through their art endeavored to resolve some of the problems arising from it. ...

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In contrast, concrete language "identifies things perceived through the senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste), such as soft, stench, red, loud, or bitter" ("Literary Terms", n.d.). ... Nida (1992) calls technical language "a kind of cognitive shorthand, in which semantically specialized terms can cover a wide range of entities or events". ...

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Other literary critics agree that Sir Gawain's journey is meant to test his ability to suppress all other desires and emerge as a Christian hero. ... " Knowing this, she defines him in "purely social and physical" terms that the knight would find hard to reject. ...

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The controversy surrounding the "truth- of Prince's narrative ultimately empowers it as a political tool and literary work. ... African-American studies scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explains the slave narrative in these terms: The Black slave narrators sought to indict both those who enslaved them and the meta- physical system drawn upon to justify their enslavement. ... Let us look at Gates' explanation in terms of Prince's narrative first. ...

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In general sense, the way of telling the story is called point of view and this literary term has its subtitles which are divided for now into three groups; first person narration, second person narration, and third person narration and also these subtitles have their own subtitles. ... Virginia started with reviewing a clerical paper called the Guardian; in 1905, she started reviewing in the Times Literary Supplement and continued writing for that journal for many years. ... On Victorian Era, there are guides book for women which tells how to act, prepare food, drees up and take care of her...

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The main character of the novel, Charles Strickland, is a prosperous stockbroker. At the beginning of the book the reader sees him through the eyes of a young writer, the narrator of the novel: a very dull, quiet man, not in the least interested in literature or the arts(34), a typical broker. Then he was a man of forty, not good-looking, and yet not ugly, for his features were rather good, but they were all a little larger than life-size and the effect was ungainly. He was broad and heavy, with large hands and feet, and he wore his evening clothes clumsily. He was clean shaven, and hi large f...

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Plot Overview IN THE STREETS OF VERONA another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the scene. After citizens outraged by the constant violence beat back the warring factions, Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona, attempts to prevent any further conflicts between the families by decreeing death for any individual who disturbs the peace in the future. Romeo, the son of Montague, runs into his cousin Benvolio, who had earlie...

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The second part begins giving an account of the wager that Faust makes with Mephistopheles and also a literary explanation of Faust's redemption. ... For Faust to be Schopenhauerian he would have to have come to terms with the failure at all attempts at satisfaction and this he simply does not do. ...

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Arthur Miller, winner of many literary and dramatic awards, is an incredibly influential force in American drama. His plays deal with issues common to every society. He makes the audience face fault, weakness, and ignorance; subjects we would typical hide from. At the same time he emphasizes strengt...

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Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder - wage earners and their families were at a particular disadvantage in the capitalist jungle.Workers were slaves to the whims of their masters, the capitalist who own and ran private industry. Many of the workers were immigrants ignorant of the language and ways of their new country were the most vulnerable members of this class...

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Though he was then in serious financial straits, Jefferson's primary purpose was to assure that the nation's legislators had access to the best sources of informa- tion and ideas, for he said that he would accept whatever price and terms of payment Congress thought appropriate as long as the entire collection was pur- chased. ... Memory was divided into four parts: natural (which consisted of technology and information about inan- imate and animate things), civil, ecclesiastical, and literary. ... In the section devoted to History, Jefferson relegated Bacon's major divisio...

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SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT" An anonymous author wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the 14th century. It was written in a dialect from Northern England. The poem uses alliteration similar to the Anglo-Saxon form of poetry. Alliteration uses a repetition of consonants. The poem ends the...

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