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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... cultural mission to save humanity by preserving for it the great Sacred Texts of Imaginative Literature . It must be said that the important skills of textual and historical scholarship ( vital to the editing of a text ) do not always ...
... cultural mission to save humanity by preserving for it the great Sacred Texts of Imaginative Literature . It must be said that the important skills of textual and historical scholarship ( vital to the editing of a text ) do not always ...
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... cultural institutions ( this chauvinistic outlook is much less prevalent in the United States ) . Others are less defensive , and are genuinely engaged in trying to solve the problem of how to assimilate and make use of theories which ...
... cultural institutions ( this chauvinistic outlook is much less prevalent in the United States ) . Others are less defensive , and are genuinely engaged in trying to solve the problem of how to assimilate and make use of theories which ...
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... culture ; ' scholarship ' , beating a retreat from overt ideology , embraced a reactionary ' positivist ' ( pseudo - scientific ) rela- tionship to texts , and denied their social and historical engagements . As these remarks imply , I ...
... culture ; ' scholarship ' , beating a retreat from overt ideology , embraced a reactionary ' positivist ' ( pseudo - scientific ) rela- tionship to texts , and denied their social and historical engagements . As these remarks imply , I ...
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