Written Report: Russian Formalism and New Criticism Formalism is a literary theory that was spearheaded by two main bodies – Russian Formalists and New Critics – which focused on understanding the literary text through the text itself. Its principles posed a great shift from the traditional approaches during its time‚ and so it sparked a movement in the field of literary studies that would adopt new perspectives and ideas. While Formalism received much criticism due to its dubious methods of the closed
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Biographical Statement My name is Sean De Guzman and I am currently attending the University of Alaska Anchorage. I was born in the Philippines and moved to a small town in Alaska called Utqiagvik right after I was born‚ where I would start and end my K-12 education. Growing up‚ I always knew that my Mom worked hard to support us every day. This motivated me to do well in school so that I could make her proud. As a result‚ I got good grades and won many awards to show that all of my Mom’s hard work
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scientific work. Frankland traces their reemergence‚ examining in detail Freud’s many literary allusions and quotations as well as the rhetoric and imagery of his writing. He explores Freud’s own attempts at analysing literature‚ the influence of literary criticism on his approach to analysing patients‚ and his creation of psychoanalytical ‘novels’‚ quasi-literary fictions fraught with profoundly personal subtexts. Freud’s Literary Culture sheds new light on a multi-faceted‚ contradictory writer who continues
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A Brief Introduction to Russian Formalism Zhu Gang In the heyday of high modernism emerged a group of college students and young faculty in Moscow and Petersburg‚ Russia‚ whose interest was claimed to be literature per se. They were few in number‚ but their unmistakable insistence on the ideal status of literary study and stubborn pursuit for its realization has marked the beginning of a new era‚ and produced profound influence on the subsequent development of contemporary Western critical
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Since its publication in 1981‚ Joy Kogawa’s Obasan has assumed an important place in Canadian literature and in the broadly-defined‚ Asian-American literary canon. Reviewers immediately heralded the novel for its poetic force and its moving portrayal of an often-ignored aspect of Canadian and American history. Since then‚ critics have expanded upon this initial commentary to examine more closely the themes and images in Kogawa’s work. Critical attention has focused on the difficulties and ambiguities
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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils"[2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802‚ in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils. Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth’s own account)‚[3] it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes‚ and a revised versionwas published in 1815.[4] It is written in six-line stanzas with an ababcc rhyme scheme‚ like the Venus
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Linguistics professor and best-selling author‚ Deborah Tannen explains how “The Argument Culture” wants us to accept that by creating conflict is the best way of getting things done with an adversarial disposition. An essay taken from her book‚ The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue (1988)‚ Tannen expresses her views on having adversarial dialogue between two sides has weakened communication in our society. Although‚ we live in a society where we are free to express our conflicts
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Autobiographical and Personal Criticism Immanuel Kant was one of the first modern-day philosophers who admitted that there is no such thing as an “objective” interpretation‚ and that every interpreter brings a great deal to the text. Up to very recently almost all scholarly writing has been defined by the absence of the “I” or any reference to the personal situation of the writer or to the writing process. This situation has changed drastically with the introduction of autobiographical criticism. Autobiographical
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context through the lenses of reader response‚ deconstructionism‚ new historicism‚ and psychoanalytic analysis. Through these lenses of literary theory I hope to derive further meaning and understanding of this favored story as well as dismiss some criticism that has been leveled against H.P. Lovecraft. Each theoretical view has been defined by personal opinion and expert testimony and broken into separate sections; each examining the story from the theory described. The final section I will bring
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Ed. The Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge‚ 1999. Eagleton‚ Terry. Literary Theory. Minneapolis‚ MN: University of Minnesota Press‚ 1996. Lentricchia‚ Frank. After the New Criticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press‚ 1980. Moore-Gilbert‚ Bart‚ Stanton‚ Gareth‚ and Maley‚ Willy. Eds. Postcolonial Criticism. New York: Addison‚ Wesley‚ Longman‚ 1997. Richter‚ David H. Ed. The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends. 2nd Ed. Bedford Books: Boston‚ 1998. Rivkin‚ Julie and
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