Practicing Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction" A clear and accessible demonstration of how contemporary literary theories can be applied to a wide range of texts, from Shakespeare, Bunyan, Sterne, Keats, to James, Stevens, Joyce, Pinter, Updike, and Arthur Miller." |
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... clearly and simply without destroying its serious significance . Subsequently , teachers have suggested to me that I should provide a complementary study addressed more directly to practice . I have not assumed that the Reader's Guide ...
... clearly and simply without destroying its serious significance . Subsequently , teachers have suggested to me that I should provide a complementary study addressed more directly to practice . I have not assumed that the Reader's Guide ...
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... clear & cloudless night ; " " For Empire is no more , and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease . " ' ( from America , Poetry and Prose , ed . Geoffrey Keynes ( Nonesuch Press , London , 1961 , pp . 202-3 ) ) A Formalist Approach I include ...
... clear & cloudless night ; " " For Empire is no more , and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease . " ' ( from America , Poetry and Prose , ed . Geoffrey Keynes ( Nonesuch Press , London , 1961 , pp . 202-3 ) ) A Formalist Approach I include ...
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... author's private ' myth ' . Other reader - response critics would be in- terested in studying the reception of Blake's poetry in his time and later . It is clear that this would produce a 10 Practising Theory and Reading Literature.
... author's private ' myth ' . Other reader - response critics would be in- terested in studying the reception of Blake's poetry in his time and later . It is clear that this would produce a 10 Practising Theory and Reading Literature.
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An Introduction Raman Selden. later . It is clear that this would produce a fascinating result : Blake was known and admired by a very small circle , and only gradually after W. B. Yeats's famous edition did he become regarded as a major ...
An Introduction Raman Selden. later . It is clear that this would produce a fascinating result : Blake was known and admired by a very small circle , and only gradually after W. B. Yeats's famous edition did he become regarded as a major ...
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