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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... reason . Relying too much on his own insight , Good- man Brown reasons his way out of Faith's arms in the sixth paragraph of the story : " What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand ! . . . after this one night I'll cling to her ...
... reason . Relying too much on his own insight , Good- man Brown reasons his way out of Faith's arms in the sixth paragraph of the story : " What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand ! . . . after this one night I'll cling to her ...
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... reason as we go . " Brown's companion soon realizes that “ his arguments seemed rather to spring up in the bosom of his auditor than to be suggested by himself . " This quotation might serve as evidence of Satan's deception , that " his ...
... reason as we go . " Brown's companion soon realizes that “ his arguments seemed rather to spring up in the bosom of his auditor than to be suggested by himself . " This quotation might serve as evidence of Satan's deception , that " his ...
Pagina 85
... reason along the forest path would be to condemn reason itself . We find , however , that the text allows us to privilege the forest and solitude as opposed to civilization and the city . As we privilege the dark- ness in which Brown ...
... reason along the forest path would be to condemn reason itself . We find , however , that the text allows us to privilege the forest and solitude as opposed to civilization and the city . As we privilege the dark- ness in which Brown ...
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Criticism Theory and Literature | 1 |
A Historical Survey of Literary Criticism | 11 |
New Criticism | 31 |
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