type of literary theory: Though the new critics were careful always to signal that their use of the term ’poetry’ included all literature‚ in fact much of their important work neglected fictional and dramatic texts...The principal reasons for this are first‚ that lyric poetry is typically easier to work with‚ because such poems are generally shorter...This then‚ is a reason of expedience: in wishing to demonstrate their theory in practice‚ the New Critics were concerned to provide examples that could
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attributes. Along the way‚ New Criticism wants to pull out and discuss any universal truths that literary works might hold concerning the human condition. These truths are considered by New Critics to be static‚ enduring‚ and applicable to all humanity. Leading new critics include I.A. Richards‚ Cleanth Brooks‚ Northrop Frye‚ John Crowe Ransom‚ T.S. Eliot‚ and Roman Jacobsen. These thinkers consider literature to be a language game in which communication becomes semi-transparent. They reject Impressionism
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humanism A new concept of human individuality‚ originating in the citystates of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy‚ that was based on desire for excellence in scholarship‚ creative work‚ and education. The humanist movement spread to northern Europe‚ France‚ England‚ and elsewhere‚ and continued to flourish until the mid-seventeenth century. Among its more familiar literary figures are‚ in Italy‚ Dante Alighieri‚ Francesco Petrarca (known as Petrarch)‚ Giovanni Boccaccio‚ Baldassare
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Introduction: What is Literature 2-5 The Formalists‚ Russia‚ 1910s. “Lit language is a set of deviations from a norm … a ‘special’ kind of language‚ in contrast to the ‘ordinary’ language we commonly use.” Ordinary lang is different for different classes‚ regions‚ ages‚ etc. Lit lang is an assemblage of devices (sound‚ rhythm‚ narrative techniques‚ etc) and the lit content is merely present as the reason to use these in a particular way. 6-7 However‚ it’s possible to read anything as literature
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narrative that spoke‚ the “hero-function‚” for example‚ that had meaning. Form was the content. A plot device or narrative strategy was examined for how it functioned and compared to how it had functioned in other literary works. Of the Russian Formalist critics‚ Roman Jakobson and Viktor Shklovsky are probably the most well-known. The Formalist adage that the purpose of literature was “to make the stones stonier” nicely expresses their notion of literariness. “Formalism” is perhaps best known is Shklovsky’s
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and no two critics agree completely on its meaning. It may be interpreted on three levels: the person‚ the society‚ and the human race. The personal interpretation seeks to reveal Eliot ’s feelings and intentions in writing the poem. At the society level‚ a critic looks for the meaning of the poem in relation to the society for which it was written. Finally‚ the human level extends the societal level to include all human societies - past‚ present‚ and future (Thompson
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Cited: Brooks‚ Cleanth Short Stories from William Faulkner First Encounters. New Haven: Yale University‚ 1983‚ pp 16 & 19 Fang‚ Du Who makes a Devil out of a Fair Lady? An Analysis of the Social Causes of Emily’s Tragedy in A Rose for Emily. Canadian Social Science
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William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is perhaps his most famous and most anthologized short story. From the moment it was first published in 1930‚ this story has been analyzed and criticized by both published critics and the causal reader. The well known Literary critic and author Harold Bloom suggest that the story is so captivating because of Faulkner’s use of literary techniques such as “sophisticated structure‚ with compelling characterization‚ and plot” (14). Through his creative ability
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- S4 - ON : 530 New Criticism A literary movement that started in the late 1920s and 1930s and originated in reaction to traditional criticism that new critics saw as largely concerned with matters extraneous to the text‚ e.g.‚ with the biography or psychology of the author or the work ’s relationship to literary history. New Criticism proposed that a work of literary art should be regarded as autonomous
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From Insanity is Alive in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” I agree with the statements Cleanth Brooks Jr. and Robert Penn Warren made in their article From Understanding Fiction and also with T.J. Stafford’s statements made in Tobe’s Significance in “A Rose for Emily.” However‚ I would like to elaborate on how I personally view it a little more. Being a girl‚ I knew that us girls would do rash and crazy things for a guy we specifically favored; creep on their social media profiles‚ draw those
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