Over the centuries theorists have tried to develop different kinds of approaches to what should and should not be in terms of literary theory and criticism. In here we will discuss three different theorists (Aristotle‚ Longinus‚ and Wordsworth) from three different theories (mimetic‚ pragmatic and expressive) and explain their rules and thoughts to what is "good" literature. Later on‚ we will apply each theorist’s theory to William Blake’s "London"‚ and whether it works well with the theory or not
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An Analysis of Lamb’s Dream Children Or Charles Lamb as a Romanticist Charles Lamb was a famous English prose-writer and the best representative of the new form of English literature early in the nineteenth century. He did not adhere to the old rules and classic models but made the informal essay a pliable vehicle for expressing the writer’s own personality‚ thus bringing into English literature the personal or familiar essay. The style of Lamb is gentle‚ old-fashioned and irresistibly attractive
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The Victorian Era During the Victorian Era‚ social classes of England were newly reforming‚ and fomenting. There was a churning upheaval of the old hierarchical order‚ and the middle classes were steadily growing. Added to that‚ the upper classes’ composition was changing from simply hereditary aristocracy to a combination of nobility and an emerging wealthy commercial class. The definition of what made someone a gentleman or a lady was‚ therefore‚ changing at what some thought was an alarming rate
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Literature: Reading‚ Reacting‚ Writing‚ 5th Edition Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell Table of Contents Preface 1. Understanding Literature Imaginative Literature Conventional Themes The Literary Canon Luisa Valenzuela‚ “All about Suicide” Wole Soyinka‚ “Telephone Conversation” Thinking Critically Interpreting Literature Evaluating Literature The Function of Literary Criticism Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism 2. Reading and Writing About Literature
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family had to work to help the family. Youth would be hired as young as four years old to clean trash at factories or become a farm boy. Once the male children got older they would work at more dangerous jobs with lower wages like coal mining and chimney sweepers. If boys didn’t do mining or sweeping they would become a builder and work 64 hours a week. Girls around the age of 15 would look to prostitution as a way to get money and would do this until they were about 22. Others would become servants and
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instruction manual. The hose on it is different than the average sweeper. There is a small cap on the hose that has to be lifted when the telescopic wand is pulled out of the other hose. Then one can hook attachments to that or take the metal telescopic hose off and then just use the rubber hose with attachments. The first time I did that I thought to myself‚ “How do I get this back together.” Without using a manual I figured out how to use the sweeper after the first few times I used it. I recommend reading
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TOPIC 4: OCCUPIER’S LIABILITY Occupier’s liability forms part of the liability arising from the occupation of premises. It is therefore related to nuisance‚ Rylands v Fletcher‚ breach of statutory duty and basic negligence. Occupier’s liability covers liability for damage (usually personal injury) which occurs to entrants on to the premises of the defendant. In the Commonwealth Caribbean‚ Barbados and Jamaica have enacted statutes substantially similar to the English Occupiers Liability Act 1957
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Did Wordsworth or Coleridge have greater influence on modern criticism? Answer: Wordsworth‚ Coleridge‚ and British Romanticism Introduction After a brief introduction of the period that will contrast the Romantics with the century that preceded them‚ we shall move on to analyze the great poetic‚ theoretical experiment that most consider the Ur text of British Romanticism: "Lyrical Ballads". We shall explore both the unique plan of "Lyrical Ballads"‚ and the implications of that plan for literary
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Protestant Poets 8. Who of the following is not a periodical essayist? (a) Richard Steele (b) Lancelot Andrews (c) Joseph Addison (d) Jonathan Swift 9. "Did he who made the Lamb made thee" appears in- (a) ‘Introduction’ (b) ‘ The Tyger’ (c) ‘Chimney Sweeper’ (d) ‘London’ 10. Which of the following thinker- concept pairs is rightly matched? (a) I.A. Richards - Archetypal criticism (b) Northrop Frye-Practical criticism (c) Jacqes Devide - New Historicism (d) Stanley Fish - Reader Response 11
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is interested in. Although it is a sin for street sweepers to learn about anything he has a special gift of understanding his school work although street sweepers are supposed to be unintelligent. In Ayn Rand’s Anthem Equality is different from his brothers because he wants to be his own person by doing things that interest him‚ while Equality is trying to live his life without following the rules he finds that he does not want to be a street sweeper and wants to learn about science and other things
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