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    Reader Response Criticism: William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” “A Rose for Emily” was written in first person point of view. The narrator is never given a name‚ but it is apparent to the reader that the narrator is one of the townspeople. This is evident in the opening of the story when the narrator exposits that‚ “our whole town went to her funeral” (Faulkner‚ “Rose” 90). This story tells the tale of Miss Emily Grierson in psychological order‚ beginning with her funeral (as a flashback) and

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    Feminist and Womanist Criticism of African Literature: A Bibliography By Sharon Verba July 20‚ 1997 Those women who struggle without giving up hope‚ herald the impending change...: change in attitude for both men and women as they evaluate and re-evaluate their social roles.... -Rosemary Moyana‚ "Men & Women" Rereading‚ willful misreading‚ and de- and re-coding are tools used in African literature and womanist or feminist discourse to challenge "canonized ’literature ’"

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    Danya P. Ms. Q English 1302 April 2013 New Criticism and the Poem “When I Heard a Learn’d Astronomer” During the early half of the 20th century‚ a new style of criticism emerged allowing literary texts to be examined as “independent and complete works of art” as defined by Linda Pavlovski (1). It is evident that literary works were and still are interpreted with aid from historical‚ biological‚ and even cultural perspectives but New Criticism advocates each work of literary can stand with its

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    Focht-Hansen Monday‚ March 31‚ 2014 Reader Response Criticism and C.S. Lewis’s “An Experiment in Criticism” C.S. Lewis‚ besides being the author of many popular children’s stories‚ was a professor of medieval literature at both Cambridge and Oxford. Contrary to what might be supposed‚ he was not an author by career‚ and much of what he wrote was in the same vein of his area of expertise‚ literary analysis. “An Experiment in Criticism” is his longest and most complete work‚ and also the most

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    The focus of this essay‚ to determine what seem to be ’objective’ features of ’New Criticism’‚ will be based on three poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The first poem in this study ’ "Over the dark world flies the wind" ’ and the one which I shall pay particular attention to‚ is a poem of ten lines and is purportedly the type of lyric which David Buchbinder like Graham Martin suggests lends itself best to this type of literary theory: Though the new critics were careful always to signal that

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    Stephanie Ihekwoaba English 3341—Fall 2013 Monday‚ October 21‚ 2013 New Criticism Analysis of The Crate (Francis Ponge) VS. A Dog After Love (Yehuda Amichai) As defined by the editors of the Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms‚ mentioned in a handout given by Professor Tomás Q. Morin‚ New Critics have the ability to “treat a work of literature as if it were a self-contained‚ self-referential object‚” rather than intently evaluating a poem on the basis of the reader’s emotional

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    NOTES ON TRANSLATION CRITICISM sources: House ‘Quality’‚ House Model‚ Newmark Textbook A criticism of a translation is different from a review of a translation. Review = comment on new translations‚ description and evaluation as to whether they are worth reading and buying Criticism = a broader activity‚ analysis in detail‚ evaluating old and new translations ‚ assuming that readers know the translation Translation criticism should take into account all the factors and elements in the process

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    Krasovec Garden of Love Explication When considering the many works of William Blake‚ the poem “The Garden of Love” withstands to me as one of his best poems‚ and one that can be interpreted in a vast number of ways. After reading literary criticism on this poem‚ it was interesting how differently the author of the article critiques the piece‚ in comparison to how I myself had originally perceived it. In my opinion‚ William Blake is a poet of great complexity‚ who before his time had much to

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    The Criticism of society and human nature implicit in "Perfume" by Suskind And "A Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich" by solzenitsyn The criticism of society and human nature found in these two novels‚ is extremely subtle. The criticism in the novels differs through the difference in era. "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" is based on a prisoner of war camp in Russia during the Second World War or right after and is a criticism of the treatment they receive inside the camp. Whereas "Perfume"

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    defiant tone‚ how ecocriticism has operated erroneously in its conception and current practices‚ and how it might better operate if ecocritics enhanced their ecological/scientific knowledge and adhered to more theoretical foundations of literary criticism. Phillips’ text provides theoretical‚ cultural‚ philosophical‚ and historical backgrounds to support these claims. Specifically‚ in the fourth chapter titled “Art for Earth’s

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