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‚ moral tones‚ and philological studies‚ and
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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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One of several assumptions made by New Criticism is the text’s independence from the author thus freeing the text from historical or biographical elements which are likely to affect the objective reading of the poem. In The Well Wrought Urn‚ Cleanth Brooks expresses the New Critics concern with the strongly historical
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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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Formalism and New Criticism “Formalism” is‚ as the name implies‚ an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text. The work of the Formalists had a general impact on later developments in “Structuralism” and other theories of narrative. “Formalism‚” like “Structuralism‚” sought to place the study of literature on a scientific basis through objective analysis of the motifs‚ devices‚ techniques‚ and other “functions” that comprise the literary
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statements about the ’real ’ world beyond it‚ than of the presentation and sophisticated organization of a set of complex experiences in a verbal form (Hawkes‚ pp. 150-151). Major figures of New Criticism include I. A. Richards‚ T. S. Eliot‚ Cleanth Brooks‚ David Daiches‚ William Empson‚ Murray Krieger‚ John Crowe Ransom‚ Allen Tate‚ F. R. Leavis‚ Robert Penn Warren‚ W. K. Wimsatt‚ R. P. Blackmur‚ Rene Wellek‚ Ausin Warren‚ and Ivor Winters. Archetypal/Myth Criticism A form of criticism based
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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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The waste Land T.S.Eliot complcted ‘The Waste Land’ in the autumn of 1921‚ and with the constructive suggestions of Ezra Pound about the structure of the poem ‚the present draft of the poem ‚ which was published in 1922‚ has become a classic. It is also‚ more importantly‚ the symbol of a whole age‚ signifying a new kind of poetry and a poetic revolution in modern English Literature and culture. The poem is a masterpiece of innovative poetic design and embodies an entirely new and original poetic
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William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Mississippi born novelist‚ who was a quiet and private man who once observed‚ “It is my ambition to be‚ as a private individual‚ abolished and voided from society.” Known for his distinctive voice and his evocative depictions of life in the American South‚ Nobel laureate William Faulkner is recognized as one of the most important authors of the twentieth century. The myth of Yoknapatawpha Yoknapatawpha is a fictional place created by
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