On "Daddy" Robert Phillips Finally the one way the poet was to achieve relief‚ to become an independent Self‚ was to kill her father’s memory‚ which‚ in "Daddy‚" she does by a metaphorical murder. Making him a Nazi and herself a Jew‚ she dramatizes the war in her soul. It is a terrible poem‚ full of blackness‚ and one of the most nakedly confessional poems ever written. From its opening image onward‚ that of the father as an "old shoe" in which the daughter has lived for thirty years—an explicitly
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Psychiatria Danubina‚ 2010; Vol. 22‚ No. 3‚ pp 392–405 © Medicinska naklada - Zagreb‚ Croatia Review MALIGNANT NARCISSISM: FROM FAIRY TALES TO HARSH REALITY Mila Goldner-Vukov & Laurie Jo Moore University of Auckland Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences‚ Manaaki House Community Mental Health Service Auckland District Health Board‚ 15 Pleasant View Road‚ Panmure‚ Auckland‚ New Zealand received: 1.7.2010; revised: 28.7.2010; accepted: 31.8.2010 SUMMARY Introduction: Malignant
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DEFINITION OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM A type of cultural criticism‚ postcolonial criticism usually involves the analysis of literary texts produced in countries and cultures that have come under the control of European colonial powers at some point in their history. Alternatively‚ it can refer to the analysis of texts written about colonized places by writers hailing from the colonizing culture. In Orientalism (1978)‚ Edward Said‚ a pioneer of postcolonial criticism and studies‚ focused on the way
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Qualitative Research by Michael D. Myers Originally published in: MISQ Discovery‚ June 1997 This is the "living version". [Welcome] [Introduction] [Overview of Qualitative Research] [Philosophical Perspectives] [Qualitative Research Methods] [Qualitative Techniques for Data Collection] [Modes of Analysis] [Writing Up Qualitative Research][References on Qualitative Research] [Resources for Qualitative Researchers] [Software Tools for Qualitative Researchers] [Teaching Qualitative Research] [Calls
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Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone in a sometimes negative‚ sometimes intelligible‚ (or articulate) way. The judger is called "the critic". To engage in criticism is "to criticize". One specific item of criticism is called "a criticism" or a "critique". This article provides only general information about criticism. For subject-specific information‚ see the Varieties of criticism page. Criticism can be: directed toward a person or an animal; at
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UNIVERSITY OF DELHI SCHEME OF EXAMINATION AND COURSES OF READING FOR THE M. A. EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH Syllabus applicable for students seeking admission to the M. A. Course in English in the academic year 2009-10 2 The M.A. English syllabus comprises 16 courses to be taught over 4 semesters and two years. Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 3 Semester 4 Courses 0101 - 0104 Courses 0201 - 0204 Courses 0301 - 0304 Courses 0401 - 0404 Courses 0104‚ 0203‚ 0304 and 0403 offer options. Students
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P A R T 1. A N A L Y Z I N G F I C T I O N MODULE 1 1.1. The fictional world of a literary work Literature is writing that can be read in many ways. We can read it as a form of history‚ biography‚ or autobiography. We can read it as an example of linguistic structures or rhetorical conventions manipulated for special effect. We can view it as a material product of the culture that produced it. We can see it as an expression of beliefs and values of a particular class. We can also see a work of literature
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National Diversity and Conflict The Role of Social Attitudes and Beliefs Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden‚ op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof. mr. P.F. van der Heijden volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op dinsdag 13 April 2010 klokke 11.15 uur door Nailah Ayub geboren te Al-Khobar in 1976 2 NATIONAL DIVERSITY AND CONFLICT Promotiecommissie: Promotor: Overige leden: Prof. Dr. K. A. Jehn‚ University of Melbourne
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Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/469/engl-300 ENGL-300: INTRODUCTION TO THEORY OF LITERATURE Lecture 19 - The New Historicism [March 31‚ 2009] Chapter 1. Origins of New Historicism [00:00:00] Professor Paul Fry: So today we turn to a mode of doing literary criticism which was extraordinarily widespread beginning in the late seventies and into the eighties‚ called the New Historicism. It was definable in ways that I’ll turn to in a minute and‚ as I say‚ prevalent to a remarkable
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Sociology emerged from enlightenment thought‚ shortly after the French Revolution‚ as a positivist science of society. Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge. Social analysis in a broader sense‚ however‚ has origins in the common stock of philosophy and necessarily pre-dates the field. Modern academic sociology arose as a reaction to modernity‚ capitalism‚ urbanization‚ rationalization‚ and secularization‚ bearing a particularly strong
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