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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Functions of Linguistic and Literary Research Linguistic and literary research exists to achieve the following 1. ... Improvement of knowledge: The present knowledge in linguistic and literary studies is very far removed from what it used to be in the past. ... Advancement of Field: As pointed out earlier, the field of linguistic and literary research cannot go any further if research efforts are not intensified. ... Precision, related to operational definition of terms is used in research. ...

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"Often constructivism was overtly propagandist in nature: sometimes by the placement of simple geometric forms in the kind of literary context which turns such forms into representations - (Constructivism 161). ... Early on he had published a literary magazine between 1892 and 1894, while still at the Jesuit college, and in 1898 he published his first work in the new 'free verse' style. ... An innovative and brilliant publicist, he used modern methods to publicise his new art movement - chiefly in the form of a flood of manifestos which promised much but were often difficult to prod...

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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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What is literary study? ... On the other hand, literary study is knowledge about literature itself. ... But these efforts only make literature and literary study come to a very complicated relation. ... But this effort replaced the pure literary criteria. ... Traditional literary works fulfill this nature. ...

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Voices are as many as the students in the class in terms of differences in their likes and dislikes, and opinions about a number of things being culturally bound and oriented. ... The aims of the course are: To introduce you to a range of major authors and works of the period To introduce you to key themes, issues and problems To develop a broad historical understanding prose production at this time To develop literary critical skills of contextualization, close analysis, and argumentation To further develop your research skills and to prepare you for the research paper By the end of the mod...

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Compare and Contrast with Critics At the turn of the twentieth century, American culture witnessed related literary and political shifts through which marginalized voices gained increased strength despite the severe racism that informed US laws and social interaction. Many authors and literary critics saw connections between literary content and social influence. ... In an essay entitled "The Chinese in America," Sui Sin Far laments western literary depictions of the Chinese that portray them as "unfeeling" and "custom-bound." ... This study builds on White-Parks' conclusions by explori...

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Literary criticism is a broad term used to define the different theories in which a reader can critique literary works. ... Can characters' behavior, narrative events, and/or images be explained in terms of psychoanalytic concepts of any kind? ... What might a given interpretation of a literary work suggest about the psychological motives of the reader (Brizee, 2013)? ... Under the umbrella of psychoanalytic criticism, there are many different directions a reader can go, just as with any other literary criticism. ... In psychoanalytic terms, a woman who falls in love with a man sufferin...

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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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In order to grasp the underlying concept of feminist theatre, its successes as a genre and the challenges it faces in contrast with mainstream theatrical forms, it is essential to begin with a definition of terms. ... This being the case, feminist plays through their diversity, expand the definition of what feminist theatre is and must be given adequate room to express themselves without restrictions in terms of form and style. ... " The 'female' phase referred to above, concerns feminist criticism of literary works, in which there are said to be two main waves: a first and a ...

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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 the beginning introduction of Literary Theory: An Introduction, Eagleton states numerous definitions of literature to prove the point that there has yet to be one specific definition. ... Mikhail Bakhtin is a critic who studies literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. Bakhtin "[views] language-especially literary texts-in terms of discourses and dialogues. ... Bakhtin's view of language can be summed up in two terms: addressitivity and answerability. Bakhtin discusses these terms as "a word is always addressed to someone and anticipates, can generate, a resp...

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Thus, presentations of vampirism in terms of sexuality, religious beliefs and point of view are remarkably contrasted in both these texts. However, despite this, in terms of viewing both The Vampire Lestat and Dracula as Gothic texts, there arise many similarities in their presentations of vampirism. ... Each has a different literary effect on the audience, and heavily influences their portrayal of vampirism, in way of the old' and new' styles. ... In such an analysis, Dracula and The Vampire Lestat have shown contrasting presentations of vampirism in terms of the old'...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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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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Cisneros suppresses the milieu she witnesses as a child; therefore, when searching for her literary identity, she uses phantasies to channel those experiences onto Esperanza Cordero. ... Cisneros' search for her literary identity caused her phantasies to give birth to Esperanza. ... By using ink and paper as a form of sublimation, Cisneros was finally coming to terms with her "traumatic experiences" (Satz 3). However, Cisneros still lacked a literary voice so she turned to her phantasies for aid. ...

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One of the examples is Iliad, which is extremely important from the European literary standpoint because it constitutes the beginning stages of the development of European literature (Hanczakowski 2001:23). ... Yet another important aspect of heroic tradition existed in Greek society and it found its way into the literary tradition. ...

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" Rejecting these concepts was among many of the cultural forces that drove literary modernism. ... Modernism, as a literary style is built upon the ideas and concepts found in both literary naturalism and realism; All together the beliefs in these theories reject the basis and ideals of romanticism. ... Gustave Flaubert as a modernist literary legend was a master at the precision of detail in his novel and this emphasized the modern perspective in his work. ...

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The Victorian Age marked an era where a rise of oppositional creations ruled literary and social exemplifications of gender. ... A woman, deemed as a fallen one, showed signs of disregard of the set norms, expressed sexual aggressiveness, and ignored the need to be submissive to the men in her life (Gilmour 18).The theme of a fallen woman became a popular topic in literary circles during this age. ... This idea of the ideal Victorian woman was widely witnessed in various literary works of the Victorian Age. Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott" gives an honest account of ...

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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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The literary lenses I will use to demonstrate Morrison's intent will be based on Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye's various literary theories. ... I will begin by examining who the hero is in relation to us in terms of Fictive Modes, followed by applying Frye's lecture on Hero from Across the Sea to the narrator, and lastly, I will examine the underlining symbolism within Morrison's novel using Archetypal Imagery. ...

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