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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... values , ideas , images , which , when properly understood and appreciated , allowed us to live more fully , more finely , more intensely . But literary conventions changed , history changed , language changed , and these treasures too ...
... values , ideas , images , which , when properly understood and appreciated , allowed us to live more fully , more finely , more intensely . But literary conventions changed , history changed , language changed , and these treasures too ...
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... values . For the Leavisite critic ( see also section 1 ) the quality of a text's form , imagery and style was inseparably bound up with the quality of its moral insights . The New Critics took over the Romantic concern for literature's ...
... values . For the Leavisite critic ( see also section 1 ) the quality of a text's form , imagery and style was inseparably bound up with the quality of its moral insights . The New Critics took over the Romantic concern for literature's ...
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... values erected and maintained through an élitist educational system in order to conceal the brutal facts of class oppression under industrial capitalism . ( Small World , p . 318 ) The French structuralist , the German ' reception ...
... values erected and maintained through an élitist educational system in order to conceal the brutal facts of class oppression under industrial capitalism . ( Small World , p . 318 ) The French structuralist , the German ' reception ...
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... value by observing it at work . However , I have decided that students need a brief introduction to concepts before seeing them put to work . Practising Theory tries to show how contemporary theories can develop and extend the practice ...
... value by observing it at work . However , I have decided that students need a brief introduction to concepts before seeing them put to work . Practising Theory tries to show how contemporary theories can develop and extend the practice ...
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... value is present in Roman Jakobson's perception that particular artistic forms lean towards one or other figure ( Romantic poetry to metaphor , realistic prose to metonymy ) . These are just four possible approaches to the passage . The ...
... value is present in Roman Jakobson's perception that particular artistic forms lean towards one or other figure ( Romantic poetry to metaphor , realistic prose to metonymy ) . These are just four possible approaches to the passage . The ...
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