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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: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: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: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: Renascence[(essay date Fall 1992-Winter 1993) Hazo is an award-winning American poet and critic. In the following essay, he surveys Wilbur's works and praises him as one of the greatest American poets.] Ever since I first began...
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From: Quarterly Review of Literature[(essay date fall 1944) In the following essay, Willingham disagrees with a number of assessments of Farrell put forth by critics, most notably that he is a "photographic" writer and that, beneath his naturalism, he "is...
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From:[(essay date 1963) In the following essay, Branch identifies the "related clusters of emotions" and themes, such as family loyalty, estrangement, self-discovery, and creativity, that unify Farrell's literature, asserting...
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From: Green Mountains Review[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Gelineau examines Kumin’s influence on other poets. She explores Kumin’s formalism, her occasional experimentation, the connection between her work and farm life, and her poems...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 3 June 1983) In the following review, Hawkes offers positive assessment of Literary Theory.] As much goad as guide, Terry Eagleton's spirited introduction to literary theory [Literary Theory] has the...
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From: Literary Criticism: A Short History[(essay date 1957) In the following excerpt, Wimsatt and Brooks provide an historical account of Wordsworth and Coleridge's critique of the poetic diction of earlier writers.] At a later point in this narrative...
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From: The Literary Criticism of "Young America": A Study in the Relationship of Politics and Literature 1837-1850[(essay date 1952) In the following excerpt, Stafford examines the critical theory associated with the group of reviewers known as "Young America"--a group that included Cornelius Mathews, Evert A. Duyckinck, William A....
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From: The Fusion of Horatian and Aristotelian Literary Criticism, 1531-1555[(essay date 1946) In the following essay, Herrick states that literary criticism in western Europe is based on the principles of Horace and Aristotle, respectively from the Ars Poetica and Poetics, citing commentaries...
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From: Studies in Canadian Literature[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Lecker highlights the impact of Davey’s essay “Surviving the Paraphrase” on the study of Canadian literature, in particular how it signaled the onset of the turn toward literary...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Of all the schoolroom poets, James Russell Lowell was easily the most talented, clearly the most versatile, and probably the one who strove hardest to achieve poetic excellence. Yet today his poetry is less critically...
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From: Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Armbruster considers the state of ecofeminist literary criticism and offers a poststructuralist ecofeminist reading of Le Guin's "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come out Tonight."]...