Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and PracticePrentice Hall, 1994 - 204 pagina's This introduction to literary theory and criticism, its historical development and the variety of theoretical positions or schools of criticism, is designed to help students take conscious, informed and intelligent choices concerning their own methods of literary interpretation. Plato to Henry James. It discusses each of the eight basic schools of theoretical positions concerning literary theory and criticism separately: new criticism; reader-response criticism; structuralism; deconstruction; psychoanalytic criticism; feminism; Marxism; and new historicism. Three works of literature are included: Nathanial Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown; Robert Browning's poem, My Last Duchess; and Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles. |
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... Hawthorne knew of the revolutionary Puritans ' failed attempt to achieve a purified society ( embodied in the pedagogue ) , and he has already commented on the failures of both William and John's purity . Hawthorne will now attempt to ...
... Hawthorne knew of the revolutionary Puritans ' failed attempt to achieve a purified society ( embodied in the pedagogue ) , and he has already commented on the failures of both William and John's purity . Hawthorne will now attempt to ...
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... Hawthorne refutes the Puritan idea of evil , including Indians , wiz- ards , and the Devil . We know , now , not only that Hawthorne refuses to endorse the abso- lute correctness of the Puritan world view , but that he also equates the ...
... Hawthorne refutes the Puritan idea of evil , including Indians , wiz- ards , and the Devil . We know , now , not only that Hawthorne refuses to endorse the abso- lute correctness of the Puritan world view , but that he also equates the ...
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... Hawthorne's answer to the devil is that " The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man . " In other words , it is easier for the Puritans to attribute all that seems negative to a scapegoat entity ...
... Hawthorne's answer to the devil is that " The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man . " In other words , it is easier for the Puritans to attribute all that seems negative to a scapegoat entity ...
Inhoudsopgave
Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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