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From: The New RepublicThe influence of [Richards' “Principles of Literary Criticism”] has been at least as important on the negative as on the positive side. It has been largely responsible for the final breakdown of the “magical” view of...
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From: The South Carolina Review[(review date Fall 1994-Spring 1995) In the following review, Rollin praises Brooks's body of work and its impact on criticism.] This will be a personal kind of review. The news of Cleanth Brooks's death came while I...
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From: Critical Survey of Poetry[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Calhoun gives a concise history of the development of Formalistic Criticism, especially the New Criticism of Brooks and others.] The formalist approach to poetry was the one...
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From: Southwest Review[(essay date summer 1950) In the following essay, Glicksburg praises Farrell for his apolitical views of literature and art expressed in his critical works, A Note on Literary Criticism and The League of Frightened...
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From:Antigonish Review (Issue 158) Peer-ReviewedIt may seem to the casual observer that the questions scholars in the humanities pose to themselves and to their colleagues about the work they do, about its place in the world, its value, its usefulness (to use a...
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From: The South Carolina Review[(essay date Fall 1992) In the following essay, Tassin suggests that the New Criticism endures in its own right and as the bedrock upon which other schools of criticism are constructed.] The New Deal. The New Frontier....
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From:African American Review (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn attempting to describe the issue through two mutually alien points--Harlem and Formalism--, I think we capture something of the drama that informs the work of Afro-American critics, for it is in the center of...
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 50, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedConsider two familiar frontispieces. Phillis Wheatley at the table, chin in one hand, quill in the other, eyes turned away from us, fixed in a contemplative upward gaze (fig. 1). She is at work on a manuscript--piously,...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 99, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe rhythms of economic history show us that bull markets, even when they do not plunge headlong into their bearish counterparts, are subject to periodic corrections. These corrections, painful as they may feel in the...
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 50, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI honestly can't remember the first time I read Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism. Was it working on my undergraduate thesis in the basement of the library...
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From:The American Scholar (Vol. 82, Issue 2)In the late 1970S, I decided to try to write. I didn't necessarily want to be an author, since I already had a career and I had heard enough about writing careers to warn me away from one. Feminism was ascendant,...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStylistics is the study of linguistic choices. Ethics is the study of moral choices. Both disciplines attempt to understand and explain the choices individuals make and the significance the most fine-grained choices can...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay argues that the diverse strands of Charles Kingsley's work--as nature writer, clergyman, and novelist, among others--can be united through an ecocritical approach that underscores his literary projection of a...
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From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of Tudor and Stuart drama and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of the works received...
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From:Canadian Literature (Issue 204) Peer-ReviewedIn 1959, the year of the journal Canadian Literature's birth, Hugh MacLennan's The Watch that Ends the Night, Irving Layton's A Red Carpet for the Sun, Andre Giroux's Malgre tout, la joie, and Felix-Antoine Savard's Le...
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From:Canadian Literature (Issue 204) Peer-ReviewedIn 2009, Canadian Literature marked its 50th year of publication. To celebrate, the University of British Columbia and the Faculty of Arts (led by Laurie Ricou) held a Canadian Literature Gala. Along with public...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis special issue is dedicated to what could broadly be labeled "evolutionary literary criticism"--an emerging field of scholarship that has been amongst the most innovative and controversial contributions to literary...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 103, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This article contributes to recent debates on anonymous publication, authorship, and attribution. Following early modern examples from Shakespeare, Erasmus, Montaigne, and others, I argue that central to...
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From:French Forum (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedD'apres Mudimbe (1988:94), 1'influence incontestable de Leopold Sedar Senghor sur l'intelligentsia noire notamment francophone n'empeche pas qu'il soit de tous les penseurs africains le plus vilipende. Distanciation et...
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From:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 33, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThis article approaches the text of Balzac's Gobseck through Barthes's general reflections, in Comment vivre ensemble, on the private room as a symbolic space of seclusion. Barthes's comments on the value of excrement...