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    of Literature •• l.. critics‚ the approaches are ~o subtle‚ sophisticated‚ and complex that they are not only critical stances bur also philosophies. Although the various approaches provide widely divergent ways to study literature and literary problems‚ they reflect major tendencies rather than absolute straitjacketing. Not every approach is appropriate for every work‚ nor are the approaches always mutually exclusive. Even the most devoted practitioners of the methods do not pursue

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    Personal-Response Criticism of “The Road Not Taken’ Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” incites a personal response from the reader to help them think critically of the work. This type of criticism allows the reader to relate to a literary work. As Muller and Williams explain‚ “…critics hold that we construct meanings from what we read based upon our own individual experiences‚ our cultural background‚ and the “community” within which we operate.” A reader is able to relate to “The Road Not Taken”

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    이예지 백정국 Literary Criticism 2014. 10. 28 Lisel Mueller’s Poem “Things” with New Criticism ​ New Criticism is a methodology which argues that literature is independent and criticizes only the text itself without any background‚ such as its relevance to any information about author or the situations of the time period when it was written. In this paper‚ I try to analyze and find the poetic beauty of Lisel Mueller’s poem “Things” by using the perspective of New Criticism. First of all‚ what can be found

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    Renaissance criticism : The literary criticism of the Renaissance developed classical ideas of unity of form and content into literary neoclassicism‚ proclaiming literature as central to culture‚ entrusting the poet and the author with preservation of a long literary tradition. Sir Philip Sidney (November 30‚ 1554 – October 17‚ 1586) was one of the most prominent poets of the Elizabethan era. Sir Philip Sidney’s influence can be seen throughout the history of English literary criticism since the

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    CRITICISM PHILOSOPHY o SECTION A: INTRODUCTION Not too many people can listen none defensively‚ or none antagonistically‚ to criticism. And very few of those who listen admit it when they see that they are wrong. The thing is‚ we think that admission of guilt‚ or of being wrong‚ or that we have made a mistake‚ is a sign of weakness. Yet true failure is repeatedly refusing to see your faults. Learning to listen to criticism is a life skill that we’d all do well to master. It is about keeping

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    How Literary Criticism Met Your Mother Writing Assignment From the pilot episode of an American comedy TV show called How I Met Your Mother‚ I find that both Marxist criticism and Feminist criticism exist in this episode due to the roles of the characters‚ the ways they act and speak‚ the things they own‚ etc. In terms of the Marxism‚ it is easy to find out that there is a relationship between class and power in this episode. As Barney who always wears a suit while his friends are all wearing

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    New Criticism [pic]New Criticism is a name applied to a varied and extremely energetic effort among Anglo-American writers to focus critical attention on literature itself. Like Russian Formalism‚ following Boris Eikhenbaum and Victor Shklovskii‚ the New Critics developed speculative positions and techniques of reading that provide a vital complement to the literary and artistic emergence of modernism. Like many other movements in modern criticism‚ New Criticism was in part a reaction against the

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    According to Harold Bloom‚ Literary Canon refers to a classification of literature. It is a term used widely to refer to a group of literary works that are considered the most important of a particular time period or place. For example‚ there can be a canon composed of works from a particular country‚ or works written within a specific set of years‚ or even a collection of works that were all written during a certain time period and within a certain region. In this way‚ a literary canon establishes a collection

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    A Dual-Criticism Look at The Birthmark Literature is many things: provoking‚ heartwarming‚ emotional‚ traumatic‚ poetic‚ maybe even life-changing. Literature can also be incredibly ambiguous. While literature can be “simply read”‚ when one takes a step back and looks at a piece through specific lenses‚ the work can take on an incredibly different‚ deeper meaning. Taking the lead of criticisms such as formalist‚ psychoanalytical‚ biological‚ feminist‚ Marxist‚ etc.‚ one can dig deeper into a text

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    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 own importance

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