× sleep: most vulnerable‚ innocent and yet prone to nightmare and hidden desires and fears; the dark‚ unconscious‚ unknown‚ uncontrolled and yet necessary realm of experience × struggle between conscious and unconscious; controlled and uncontrolled behavior × equivocation--the porter; fair is foul; confusion; dreams equivocate; ghosts; witches; prophcies; bubbles in the earth; equivocation of the fiend V.vi. 43 × tyranny and tyrannicide...problem of evil; integrity‚ saving faith; mistrust--Noriega
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Richard has called ‘The Waste Land’- ‘A music of ideas’ that – ‘the ideas like musician’s phrases are arranged not that they may tell us something but that their effects on us may combine into a coherent whole of feeling and attitude.’ There are critics like Wyndham Lewis who finds ‘The Waste Land’- ‘a cross-word puzzle of synthetic literary chronology’ and ‘a spurious verbal algebra.’ It is difficult to trace accurately the sources of ‘The Waste Land’ to specific writing or works of Literature
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LITERARY THEORY Misconceptions about theory: 1. Theory is difficult What is difficult however is the language because most of the theorists are French 2. theory is meaningless‚ pretentious jargon 3. that we are intellectually incapable of coping with it(i.e we are at fault) 4. We take everything as gospel truth; We should question What is literary theory? Theory is a coherent set of conceptual hypothetical and pragmatic principles forming the general frame of reference for a discipline
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Apostrophe to Helen Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus shows the tragic doom of a budding scholar‚ who was highly efficient in all the field of studies and also a young aspirant‚ who had the immense potentiality to rise high above all other existing academicians of all times. It is fair to say that Faustus represents the quintessential Renaissance man - it is his thirst for knowledge that drives him into his pact with Mephostophiles. Faustus had that unquenchable thirst for knowledge and in his attempt
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conscious‚ ego and id -human activity not always conscious -nature/ nurture -developmental stages; childhood trauma and its effect on development Theorists Comments -Aristotle (The Poetics) -Plato (The Republic) -John Crowe Ransom -Cleanth Brooks -T.S. Eliot -Louise Rosenblatt (The Reader‚ The Text‚ and The Poem) -Robert Probst (Response and Analysis) -Wolfgang Iser -Stanley Fish -Norman Holland -Wayne Booth -Terry Eagleton -Karl Marx -Frederich Engles -Sigmund Freud
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the male Ego. * “Irony as a principle of Structure” an Essay by Brooks. Cleanth Brooks article makes a lot of claims about the importance of metaphors and irony in literature. He has highlighted the use and importance of irony in a very impressive and literary way. His article "Irony as a Principle of Structure" is an excellent piece that stresses and underlines the importance of irony in poetry. According to Brooks‚ this was one way to visualize the impact of the context in regards to
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among scholars. Generally reticent about the poems‚ Wordsworth never revealed the details of her origin or identity.[2] Some scholars speculate that Lucy is based on his sister Dorothy‚ while others see her as a fictitious or hybrid character. Most critics agree that she is essentially a literary device upon whom he could project‚ meditate and reflect. The "Lucy poems" consist of "Strange fits of passion have I known"‚ "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"‚ "I travelled among unknown men"‚ "Three years
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http://books.google.com/books?id=WbA8pxUtLFwC&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&dq=a+diminishing+row+of+suavely+shaped+urns+in+the+moonlight&source=bl&ots=lh5TQu-7sq&sig=dpExkzL3AzJNkZu5ecfrqKiVJ5I&hl=en&ei=GD-iSfyyO5DoNdvtoOkN&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result Brooks‚ Cleanth. “Introduction.” Random House‚ Inc. New York‚ New York: 1986. Faulkner‚ William. Light in August. Random House. New York‚ New York: 1972. Hamblin‚ Robert W. and Charles A. Peel. A William Faulkner Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group.1999
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Cited: BradBrook‚ M.C. ―Shakespeare‘s Recollections of Marlowe.‖ Shakespeare‘s Styles: Essays in Honour of Kenneth Muir. Ed. Philip Edwards‚ Inga-Stina Ewbank‚ and G.K. Hunter. Cambridge‚ UK: Cambridge UP‚ 1980. 191-204. Brooks‚ Cleanth. ―The Unity of Marlowe‘s Doctor Faustus.‖ Doctor Faustus. Ed. David Scott Kastan. New York: W.W. Norton‚ 2005. 281-290. Charney‚ Maurice. "Jessica ’s Turquoise Ring and Abigail ’s Poisoned Porridge: Shakespeare and Marlowe and Rivals and Imitators
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Martin Luther King as an example to analyze and discuss its stylistic characteristics. It is not only the spirit of equality and liberty advocated in the speech but also its impressive style that contribute to its great success. Style—Author Brooks and Warren‚ in an excellent book‚ Fundamental of Good Writing‚ have compared style to the grain in wood. “ The style of a work is not a sort of veneer glued over the outside. On the contrary‚ it is like the pattern of the grain in a piece of wood
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