English 441 New Criticism Explained Beginning in the 1920’s and coalescing in the 1940’s‚ an interpretative approach emerged that did not define literature as essentially the self-expressive product of the artist nor as an evaluative reflection or illumination of cultural history. These "New Critics" opposed the traditional critical practice of using historical or biographical data to interpret literature. Rather‚ they focused on the literary work as an autotelic (self-contained) object. The New
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Richard L. W. Clarke LITS2306 Notes 05A 1 MATTHEW ARNOLD “THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM AT THE PRESENT TIME” (1864) Arnold‚ Matthew. “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time.” Critical Theory Since Plato. Ed. Hazard Adams. New York: Harcourt‚ Brace‚ Jovanovich‚ 1971. 592-603. Pragmatic theorists from Plato onwards have emphasised the impact which literature has on the reader. Here‚ Arnold‚ arguably England’s most important cultural critic in the second half of the nineteenth century and someone
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Survey of Humanities Formal Criticism: The Triumph of Death The Triumph of Death is an amazing and very exaggerating piece of artwork. I was going through the Artcyclopedia database and found this masterpiece. The image presented is very chaotic; we can see a scene of death all over the artwork. It is really hard to describe all the elements that we can see in the painting. The medium used in the painting is oil in panel. First of all the perspective used in the artwork is very effective. The
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Gluck uses strong diction to create vivid images in order to convey the hatred and helplessness that is the core of the character. Although the diction is relatively colloquial‚ there are some prominent words‚ which are utilized to exhibit the woman’s emotions. The first two lines of the poem are bursting with powerful lexis‚ "It is not the moon‚ I tell you. / It is these flowers..." (1-2). The woman hates men‚ and uses influential words to aid in her belief. The word moon suggests power. The subject
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Reedie Garrett Professor Andrade English 1302 WS6 14 February 2015 The Little Things Feminist criticism is the way that literature portrays the oppression of women. Therefore‚ many women rose to fight patriarchy society‚ which gave roles to each of its members. Women were only briefly part of the social role and were mainly given the reproductive role that confined them to raising children and taking care of their households and husbands. Susan Glaspell‚ a writer in the early twentieth century‚
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NEW CRITICISM Introduction New Criticism The name New criticism came into popular use to describe this approach to understanding literature with the 1941 publication of John Crow Ransom’s The New Criticism. This contains Ransom’s personal analysis of several of his contemporaries among theories and critics. Here he calls for an ontological critic (one who will recognize that poem is a concrete entity) like Leonardo Da Vinci’s “”Mona Lisa”. In New Criticism‚ a poem can be analyzed to discover
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------------------------------------------------- Biographical Criticism Biographical criticism is the idea that knowing an author’s experiences can help the reader to interpret and understand the author’s text. Biographical critics believe it’s essential to be aware of the time period and events at the time of the writing‚ and this will help them understand the work. By understanding what time period that the author was raised in‚ the audience‚ who has to have a common knowledge about general
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Daniel Ahn The Genius of Walt Whitman One of America’s greatest poets in history‚ Walt Whitman‚ wrote the masterpiece “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” which is a literary masterpiece that showcases sincere and genuine feeling through his facility of words. Whitman utilizes certain words to enhance his diction to create a somber yet hopeful tone and parallelism to create a more melodious elegy that has lasted through the centuries. Whitman uses his diction to create a dark melancholy
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Marxist criticism is a type of criticism in which literary works are viewed as the product of work and whose practitioners emphasize the role of class and ideology as they reflect‚ propagate‚ and even challenge the prevailing social order. Rather than viewing texts as repositories for hidden meanings‚ Marxist critics view texts as material products to be understood in broadly historical terms. In short‚ literary works are viewed as a product of work (and hence of the realm of production and consumption
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In this experiment the initial mass of the sodium carbonate used was 2.69g. In each titration‚ 3 drops of methyl orange was added to the sodium carbonate solution. With this information the titration can begin‚ and the results obtained are shown below: Titration readings Titration Rough 1 2 3 4 5 Initial 0.00 4.30 22.00 21.00 15.00 25.90 Final 4.30 22.00 38.60 37.60 32.60 42.20 Titre (cm3) 4.30 17.70 16.60 16.60 17.60 16.30 Therefore‚ the average titre would be calculated as follows;
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