in her hands and turned it to hers… She held my face to hers… Mother caught me in her arms and began to cry‚ and I cried” (41). This scene shows the lack of family unity‚ for Caroline Compson cannot tolerate Benjy; she has no respect for him. Cleanth Brooks said‚ “Caroline Compson is not so much an actively wicked and evil person as a cold weight of negativity which paralyzes the normal family relationships” (293). Her self-centeredness divides the family‚ for she completely rejects Benjy‚ making
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× 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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A Reader’s Guide To Contemporary Literary Theory ( First Chapter ) The New Critics And Their Influence On The Democratization Of Education And Their Reaction Against Social Conditions Bouchra Hallit Groupe : 2 The new critics in the 20th century; whether in England or in The United States‚ had goals to achieve be it social‚ economical‚ or educational. The one to have affected the critical views in the world was‚ Mathew Arnold‚ whose ideas were much centred about culture and specifying
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THE WELCOME TABLE SHEILA TODD ENGLISH 125 NOVEMBER‚ 24‚ 2013 INSTRUCTOR: RONALD SION At its basic level‚ literary criticism‚ like all criticism‚ reflects personal preferences and emotional responses. It’s an activity that requires looking back on a reading experience just as you would look back on a journey you’ve completed and analyzing what you gained from it. Your experience is the central focus. You are the one initiating
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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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Towards the end of The Waste Land‚ the poetic voice says: ‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’ (Eliot‚ The Waste Land‚ p. 140). Discuss this assertion in relation to the entire poem. In this part of the presentation I will be looking at Eliot’s fragmented form which produces a chaotic effect‚ and then discuss how the voice of the speaker who says ‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’ might bring the poem together to form an order and a platform for the blend of images‚ languages
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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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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: Brooks‚ Cleanth. "The Waste Land: An Analysis." T.S. Eliot. ed. B. Rajan. New York: Funk and Wagnall ’s‚ 1948. Drew‚ Elizabeth. T.S. Eliot: The Design of His Poetry. New York: Charles Scribner ’s Sons‚ 1949. Fry‚ Northrop. T.S. Eliot. New York: Capricorn Books
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