lineaments of his own face‚ the port of his own body‚ the various inflections of his own voice. In criticizing his work‚ you criticize also him. Max Beerbohm The actor’s life is one of nagging self-doubt. Some actors try to protect themselves from criticism by adopting an inviolable rule never to read reviews of their performances. If this is not enough protection there is recourse to alcohol. John Barrymore‚ in real life and in the 1930’s movie Dinner at Eight‚ demonstrates the dangers of the alcohol
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The Hague/Paris; Mouton‚ 1957‚ P.15 Abstract: Environmental or ecological studies first stated with literature‚ scientific studies came at a later date. But environmentalism has been very slow to develop a school of criticism in the academic humanities. The tradition of eco-criticism came to be formally inaugurated in the meeting of the Western Literature Association in 1980. Some prominent literary critics grew sick of the postmodernist theoretical preoccupation with ‘social constructiveness’ and
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paths to man’s inner desire are taken and explored by the characters. Such characters as Ralph‚ Roger‚ and Simon all depict the ways in which evil can invest a person’s soul and how evil can be fought within someone truly good. Through the literary criticisms of Chris Schultz and Christopher Dentel‚ the relationship between man and his inner self is explored and psychologically analyzed to depict how evil manifests itself in many forms. Although one would believe that the root to moral decay and degeneracy
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Marian Maguire‚ Medium and Materiality Marian Maguire’s framed lithograph on paper‚ Virago (1990)‚ can be found on the fifth floor of the James Hight Library by room 542D. Print dimensions are 720mm x 430mm. The work has been exhibited at the Canterbury Gallery in the 1991 exhibition “Life Cycle in Lithographs” and was purchased for the University of Canterbury by the now defunct Library Art Acquisitions Committee in 1995. Lithography by its very method of production with the flat stone printing
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oppressed. The school of resentment views the traditional canon politically‚ as a means the social elite drives home the inferiority of subject classes. School of Resentment is a term coined by critic Harold Bloom to describe related schools of literary criticism which have gained prominence in academia since the 1970s and which Bloom contends are preoccupied with political and social activism at the expense of aesthetic values. 3. Other challenges serious literature face in the modern world
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Theories of Artistic Intent When we judge any piece of literature‚ film‚ novel or music lyrics‚ we typically set it against a standard of expectations which helps us to evaluate (often called criticism). In literary theory‚ there are three classical standards which define literature and its effectiveness in terms of what the literature is trying to accomplish: what its goal is. These theories of artistic intent will help to continue the definition of what the particular features of each subcategory
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Unflagging ’India’s Missing Freedom’ The essay “Flagging India’s Missing Freedom” by Dipankar Gupta is a very well-written essay. The title of the essay is very captivating and still remains quite appropriate. The author tries to drive home the point that India‚ as a nation is insecure The essay is very persuasive and does a good job in imprinting the point of the author onto the reader’s head. The author clearly states that punishing individuals for caricature of the flag is a negative trait
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WRITING AN ACADEMIC BOOK REVIEW Writing a book review may be an unfamiliar exercise‚ it is not as complex a task as writing an essay requiring a lot of library research. It is‚ however‚ not the same as a book review in The Age‚ which is written for the general reader. Your book review is written for a reader (your lecturer or tutor) who is knowledgeable in the discipline and is interested not just in the coverage and content of the book being reviewed‚ but also in your critical assessment of
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and books. However what is the point in these hidden objects if the story isn’t even understood itself and it hasn’t been viewed in a different literary lense? The movie “The Lorax” could easily be used with any of the four lenses of literary criticism. The story is most likely going to be viewed by Marxist critics because the dictators and leaders in the movie and how they impact the story much more significantly than the others. The story has three main dictators‚ the first one being the Once-ler
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An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular‚ the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past‚ teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College‚ London in the
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