Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/469/engl-300 ENGL-300: INTRODUCTION TO THEORY OF LITERATURE Lecture 19 - The New Historicism [March 31‚ 2009] Chapter 1. Origins of New Historicism [00:00:00] Professor Paul Fry: So today we turn to a mode of doing literary criticism which was extraordinarily widespread beginning in the late seventies and into the eighties‚ called the New Historicism. It was definable in ways that I’ll turn to in a minute and‚ as I say‚ prevalent to a remarkable degree
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The uniqueness of New Orleans New Orleans is nationally known as one of the unique cities ofAmerica. The social construction of this uniqueness began from the city’s establishment by the French. This social identity was progressively built upon when the colony came under the control of the Spanish‚ and then reverted to French power before being sold to America in the Louisiana Purchase. The presence of these different cultural groups influenced the development of New Orleans economically and culturally
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the New Deal. The New Deal attempted to provide recovery and relief from the Great Depression through programs of business regulation. The New Deal posed as a major threat to big businesses and corporations because it symbolized an end to the principle of Laissez Faire. However‚ the New Deal conserved and protected American business because it stabilized businesses‚ helped unemployed workers‚ and protected consumers from inefficient service and exorbitant charges. The first reason the New Deal
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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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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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who captured the king’s “passions” and gave meaning to a lifeless thing. Then towards the end of the poem there was an inscription that contradicted itself. Just as the statue in the poem “Ozymandias” has an inscription marked into it‚ the poem “New Colossus” is an inscription to a statue itself‚ being the statue of liberty. “Ozymandias” shows how the statue’s original inscription is contradictory to what it has become‚ similar to what the “Newer Colossus” explains. The inscription in the poem
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“The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.” News anchors collect information‚ formulate stories‚ and make broadcasts that inform the public about local‚ State‚ national‚ and international events. They present points of view on current issues; and report on the actions of corporate executives‚ interest groups‚ public officials‚ and others who exercise power. Newscaster’s at large networks usually specialize
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The New Deal and its policies show that the Depression of the 1930s led to extraordinary testing of federal educational programs. The New Deal set guide that redefined the federal government’s position in education. The government used organizations such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration to construct schools‚ help employ teachers‚ and offer a broad range of courses. In dissimilarity to the Great Society‚ education was insignificant to New Deal Social policy
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JOURNALISTIC AND COMMERCIAL NEWS VALUES Journalistic and Commercial News Values News Organizations as Patrons of an Institution and Market Actors SIGURD ALLERN Why do some events fill the columns and air time of news media‚ while others are ignored? Why do some stories make banner headlines whereas others merit no more than a few lines? What factors decide what news professionals consider newsworthy? Such questions are often answered – by journalists and media researchers alike – with references
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The new girl Author The story is written by Marc Mitchell (Florence‚ Alabama) in 2001. Title The new girl. The whole story is about this situation that changed the main characters life – the situation where he met this new girl‚ and acted terribly against her‚ which “haunts” him the rest of his life. Narrator The story is told with a 1st person narrator. We only see and hear the story through one set of eyes – we only see it from one perspective. (Examples from text: “I lived…”) Settings
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