was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars such as Viktor Shklovsky‚Yuri Tynianov‚ Vladimir Propp‚ Boris Eichenbaum‚ Roman Jakobson‚ Boris Tomashevsky‚ Grigory Gukovsky who revolutionized literary criticism between 1914 and the 1930s by establishing the specificity and autonomy of poetic language and literature. Russian formalism exerted a major influence on thinkers like Mikhail
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of Czech Formalism. Jan Mukarovsky further refined this notion in terms of foregrounding. In their studies of narrative‚ the Formalists also clarified the distinction between plot (sjazet) and story (fabula). Apart from Shklovsky and his associate Boris Eikhenbaum‚ the most prominent of the Russian Formalists was Roman Jakobson‚ who was active both in Moscow and in Prague before introducing Formalist theories to the United States. A somewhat distinct Russian group is the ’Bakhtin school’ comprising
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byJournal of the Short Story in English 46 (Spring 2006) Special issue: Raymond Carver ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Charles E. May Putting yourself in the shoes of Raymond Carver ..............................................
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You Are Marvelous You Are Marvelous Contents Introduction 2 Executive Summarry 2 Goals 2 Logistics 3 Venue 3 Target Audience 3 Marketing Plan 3 Sponsors 3 Partners 4 Logistics 4 Equipment and Supplies 5 Schedule of Event 6 Money Matters 8 Budget 8 Cost per participant 8 Safety and Security 9 Risk Management 9 Sustainability 9 Evaluation 9 Cancellation 10 Introduction Executive Summarry You Are Marvelous is a series of workshops that will foster positive self-image
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2 February 2014 PSVP 414 Cinema The Comedy Genre: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) From my perspective there are numerous potential functions of film genres one can derive from the film experience in American culture that cuts across many sectors of American life but especially political and sociological. Fortunately for cinephiles‚ Arsenic and Old Lace is a film that lends itself to that function. As another example of film-driven genre shifting‚ in the late 1960s and early 1970s the
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man‚ Boris Ivanovich‚ and his wife Anna‚ whose son is rejected from “the very best nursery school in Manhattan”. Boris and Anna are wealthy and successful‚ with very much focus upon how the upper-class community sees them. When Mischa (Boris and Anna’s son) gets rejected from the nursery school‚ Boris fears the reaction from his co-workers at Bear Stearns. Especially the reaction from one of his co-workers‚ Siminov‚ is on Boris’ mind – and not without reason. The following Monday‚ when Boris goes
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looking at the past and changing perspective for the future. As Boris reminisces about the nuclear explosion‚ he reveals his view of his brothers and the catastrophic event. Boris then concludes about the explosion and what it means to him‚ to society‚ and in science. Overall‚ Boris’ view of the event gives light to its outcome‚ displaying the effects of this kind of disaster and what it entails in the lives of humans. In the beginning‚ Boris describes his brothers and working at the nuclear plant to
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Boy) As one of the Soviet’s top nuclear engineers and a forefront member of the Red army‚ Boris was well aware of the risks associated with operation ‘Atomnya’. Infiltrating the Manhattan Project wasn’t going to be easy‚ and the American’s had already captured the likes of Pavlovich Vostok- another of the Soviet’s most prominent engineers. While he was rarely allowed outside the confines of Los Alamos‚ Boris had spent a few months before the commencement of his mission in Denver‚ studying at the
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(1917) Somers M.R.‚ Gibson G.D. (1994) “Reclaiming the epistemological “other”: narrative and the social constitution of identity”‚ in Social Theory and the Politics of Identity‚ Calhoun. C.‚ ed. (Oxford‚ UK: Blackwell)‚ pp. 35 99. Tomashevsky‚ Boris (1965) “Thematics” in Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays‚ edited and translated by Lemon‚ Lee T. and Reis‚ Marion J. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press) p. 61-95. Originally published as “Tematika‚” Teoriya lituratury‚ Leningrad‚ 1925 United
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Critical Theory Notes 8/27/2014 Practical Criticism → close reading I.A. Richards introduces Practical Criticism and centers on close analysis of the words that comprise each page of text William Empson was a pupil of Richard’s. He applies an assiduously strict‚ almost mathematical formula to textual analysis‚ the drawback of which is that the flexibility of language is largely discounted. F.R. Leavis‚ along with Q. D. Roth (whom he eventually marries)‚ takes the process of close reading to
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