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    Russian Formalism

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    A Brief Introduction to Russian Formalism Zhu Gang In the heyday of high modernism emerged a group of college students and young faculty in Moscow and Petersburg‚ Russia‚ whose interest was claimed to be literature per se. They were few in number‚ but their unmistakable insistence on the ideal status of literary study and stubborn pursuit for its realization has marked the beginning of a new era‚ and produced profound influence on the subsequent development of contemporary Western critical

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    English 2293 Steven G. Kellman December 6‚ 2011 El Titulo‚ The Title: Translation in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo According to Bill Johnson Gonzales Through His Article “The Politics of Translation in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo: Translation‚ Defamiliarization‚ Ethics” Prologue: Memories‚ Recuerditos de la Guerita Normita‚ Como me Decían en Mexico A Reaction to Caramelo: Memories Repressed and Reborn Though I am aware that this is not a creative writing assignment‚ I cannot help but‚ at the very

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    The entire story of The Metamorphosis is filled with the concept of dehumanization. In a literal sense‚ when Gregor wakes up and realizes that he is turning into in cockroach‚ he is the definiton of being dehumanized‚ as he is literally no longer a human. When I first read the story‚ I thought that Gregor was literally a cockroach in the story. The more I read the story and the more research I did‚ I realized Kafka uses Gregor turning into a cockroach as a metaphor of technology taking over peoples

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    A questionable Shape

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    penchant for the familiar with our own familiarity with the subject and his narrator’s internal struggle with those he is most familiar with‚ so that the novel becomes‚ among other things‚ an exploration of the very concept of familiarity. Defamiliarization: a process by which you try to remove certain associations with the faces of the people you love. FIGHT THE BITE: The illustration featured a blank-faced man and a blank-faced woman seated in profile‚ staring into each other’s eyes‚ as if competing

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    What is ART - skill acquired by experience the conscious use of skill & creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects LASCAUX PALEOLITHIC cave painting (c15‚000 BC) MANUNGGUL JAR (c710-890) 2nd LGBT Flores de Mayo Q.C. CCP by leandro locsin (1969) DL UMALI HALL by Leandro Locsin (1965) Pahiyas Festival ‚ Lucban Quezon What counts as Art? * ART as an EXPERIENCE OF PLEASURE David

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    The Road Not Taken

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    back. (15) I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood‚ and I— I took the one less traveled by‚ And that has made all the difference. (20) Formalism deals with ‘literariness’ and ’defamiliarization’ aspects. The aspects differ literary from the other kinds of writing. In formalism‚ a poem can be analyzed scientifically by looking at the devices. This paper analyzes The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost by explaining the poetry devices.

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    In the poem Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur defamiliarizes laundry by turning the clothes into angels. This idea of laundry being angels is first introduced by the lines “Outside the open window the morning air is all awash with angels. Some are in bed-sheets‚ some are in blouses‚ some are in smocks: but truly there they are.” Additionally‚ this idea is later backed up by the line “Now they are rising together in calm swells of halcyon feeling‚ filling whatever they wear

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    CHAPTER IV Style technique in girish karnad’s “hayavadana” If style maketh the man‚ it follows from the proverbial dictum that from one’s style the person behind it can be deciphered. However with the case of Girish Karnad‚ though we comprehend a style‚ it is a style that cannot be compartmentalized. Being a versatile genius‚ his style and theme varies. InYayati ‚ we find a story from the Mahabharata fused with Western form. In Tughlaq a theme from History mingled with Parsi theatre. InNagamandala

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    Boris

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    "Thematics" by Boris Tomashevsky - Chapter Summary Tomashevsky‚ Boris. "Thematics." Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays. Comp. Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska‚ 1965. 62-95. Print. About Tomashevsky Tomashevsky is a Formalist. (From Wikipedia: In literary theory‚ formalism refers to critical approaches that analyze‚ interpret‚ or evaluate the inherent features of a text. The formalist approach reduces the importance of a text’s historical‚ biographical

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    Comment that the sonnet 130 of Shakespeare is an unconventional poem. Most of the sonnet sequences in Elizabethan England were modelled after that of Petrarch. Petrarch’s famous sonnet sequence was written as a series of love poems to an idealized and idolized mistress‚ Laura. In those sonnets Petrarch praises her beauty‚ her worth‚ and her perfection. He has used an extraordinary variety of metaphors‚ largely based on natural beauties. But in Shakespeare’s day these metaphors had already become

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