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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... Device ' Laurence Sterne 5 ' Making Strange ' ( Defamiliarisation ) Craig Ra..ne , William Golding Chapter 3 Structuralism 6 Naturalisation Christopher Smart 7 Binary Oppositions Arthur Miller ix xi 1 17 19 25 30 37 33335 41 47 49 55 8 ...
... Device ' Laurence Sterne 5 ' Making Strange ' ( Defamiliarisation ) Craig Ra..ne , William Golding Chapter 3 Structuralism 6 Naturalisation Christopher Smart 7 Binary Oppositions Arthur Miller ix xi 1 17 19 25 30 37 33335 41 47 49 55 8 ...
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... devices ( paradox , irony , tension , ambiguity ) in order to achieve a ' concrete ' image of an otherwise inexpressible experience . The New Criticism , while appearing to be anti - Romantic in its professionalism and empiricism , was ...
... devices ( paradox , irony , tension , ambiguity ) in order to achieve a ' concrete ' image of an otherwise inexpressible experience . The New Criticism , while appearing to be anti - Romantic in its professionalism and empiricism , was ...
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... device ' are not only necessary to their critical discourses but also intrinsically no more difficult than other concepts which we have become used to ( imagination , creativity , organic unity , irony , tension , and so on ) . New ...
... device ' are not only necessary to their critical discourses but also intrinsically no more difficult than other concepts which we have become used to ( imagination , creativity , organic unity , irony , tension , and so on ) . New ...
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... devices which ' defamiliarise ' automatised conventions or perceptions . 3. The tensions , ambiguities , or paradoxes , with which the poet grasps the complexity of experience . The strictly formalist view is ' scientific ' in spirit ...
... devices which ' defamiliarise ' automatised conventions or perceptions . 3. The tensions , ambiguities , or paradoxes , with which the poet grasps the complexity of experience . The strictly formalist view is ' scientific ' in spirit ...
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