Scholars uphold works from the Literary Canon with the highest regard and proceed to manifest these works into school curriculum for literary study due to their powerful influential nature and complex ideas embedded in these texts. The Literary Canon allows us to dissemble and delve into a multitude of perspectives enabling us to gain an insightful and critical view upon these widely studied texts. ... This has led to an increasing amount of criticism argued upon the speculation of biased opinions presented by professors and authoritative bodies that manage the English Canon. ... Despite the...

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Reader Response is a literary criticism technique that helps the reader better understand the text and the world around them. Reader Response critics can sum up their analysis by answering this question: What is the reading process, and what happens during it (Bressler, Literary Criticism An Introduction To theory and Practice, page 62)? ... David Bleich, founder of "subjective criticism (Bressler, Literary Criticism An Introduction To Theory and Practice, page 68), explains that a reader's personal response to the text is not the same as an interpretation. ... The Reader Response lit...

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The essay explores the shift in literary work during the restoration period. ... In the year 1725, Pope published an edition of Shakespeare that attracted great criticism from conservative authors such as Lewis Theobald. ... In this poem he demonstrates aspects of the restoration period literary work. ... Clearly, the restoration period had great contribution in the development and presentation of literary work. ... During this period literary work was used to fight vices and instill morals....

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His experimentation within language and forms brought a rapid change in literary tastes. ... In this paper, this poem will be examined from two literary theories. ... Marxist Criticism Marxism is a way of seeing the world around us through the economic terms. ... The simplest goals of Marxist literary criticism can include an assessment of the political 'tendency' of a literary work, determining whether its social content or its literary form are 'progressive'. ... The English literary critic and cultural theorist Terry Eagleton defines Marxist criticism this way: "Marxist ...

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Amaris Baxter Langston Hughes; "Mother to Son" 1) 1930's; Realism 2) Biographical Theory of Criticism 3) Post-structural Theory of Criticism Through the literary works of Langston Hughes, it is clear to see that he uses his own style and language to portray realistic traits. The biographical theory of criticism can easily be used to criticize Hughes work, as well as the post-structural theory. ... Biographical Theory of Criticism "Mother to Son" Closely parallels the life of Hughes. ... Post-structural Theory of Criticism "Mother to Son" also contai...

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The novel as a more realistic literary genre, is sometimes distinguished in academic literary criticism from the romance; but this distinction is not maintained by all literary critics. 3. ... A literary work meant to be performed in a theatre. If viewed from this functional angle, the definition of drama as a literary kind is non-controversial. ...

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Hardy tends to use many of the literary techniques, but mostly those of kennings and aprorias in his poetry (poems). ... Hardy uses the literary techniques of aporia, kennings, hendiadys, personification, and alliteration in "After a Journey-. ... What Collins wrote in his criticism on "After a Journey- seems to be right on the dot to what Hardy was going for. ... Ramazani's criticism of "After a Journey- just doesn't seem right. ... Some of the literary techniques Hardy uses in "The Haunter- are: aporia, alliteration, enjambment, kenning, imagery, and antistrophe. ...

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Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century's major poets." and a leader of the modernist movement in literature T.S. ... This city had a monumental and life-altering impact on Eliot for multiple reasons, the most significant of which was his introduction to the influential literary figure  Ezra Pound. ... If one categorized Eliot's careers, he would probably be regarded as editor, dramatist, literary critic, and philosophical poet. ... His undergraduate ...

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Lucinda Matlock' - In "Lucinda Matlock,"" Edgar Lee Masters demonstrates the literary devices of the realism and frontier era. ... He later started a practice always writing literary works on the side under pseudonyms. ... In Floyd Dells criticism of Masters, he stated,"œIf we share, as most of us do, the cheerful American romanticism in which the disturbing fact of death cannot be said to have any place, it is something of a triumph for the author's art to have made us feel, even if only for a little while, that it is toward death that life leads, and that this is the fin...

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"Poetry is a form of imaginative literary expression that makes it's effect by the sound and imagery of it's language ("Poetry")." ... Poetry Poe became an editor shortly after the contest, he worked for Southern Literary Messenger. ... While reading ""The Raven," I had the conception of a raven - the bird of ill omen - monotonously repeating the one word "Nevermore," at the conclusion of each stanza, in a poem of Poetry melancholy tone, and in length about one hundred lines," says Young, editor of Poetry Criticism. ...

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These include lyric and epic poetry, philosophical essays and dialogues, tragic and comic drama, literary letters and critical and biographical history. ... Drama, especially tragedy, became the most important literary form during the Golden Age. ... After the philosopher Socrates" death in 399 BC, a new literary form was developed by his pupils. ... Aristotle also wrote important works, including Poetics, a masterpiece of literary criticism. ...

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Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. ... There, in 1925, his literary skills were discovered after he left three of his poems beside the plate of American poet Vachel Lindsay, who recognized Hughes's abilities and subsequently helped publicize Hughe...

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Of course, any writer who breaks the mold and develops a new and unique writing style, will be the target of positive and negative criticism, and if that writer uses his writing technique to cover scandalous topics like sex and homosexuality, he will undoubtedly be the center of much controversy. When "Leaves of Grass," was first published, it was a commercial failure, but literary critics could not discount Whitman's bold approach to writing. ... Many people, including this writer, cannot get past Whitman's sexual tendancies, and consider his literary works on their merits as innova...

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A co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London. ... It contains on the whole an admirable selection with short lives of the poets, and prefixed to it an essay on poetry containing much valuable criticism. ... "Poland preys on my heart night and day," he wrote in one of his letters, and his sympathy found a practical expression in the foundation in London of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland. ... See The Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (3 vols., 1849), edited by...

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(19-24) The harsh criticism Kipling received from these lines is still discussed to this day. ... It created numerous subjects for his works, but in return brought upon a backlash of harsh criticism. ... Rudyard Kipling's Indian heritage greatly affected his literary works. ...

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The following stanza from "The Prologue" is Bradstreets feeling towards the criticism she received from being a female writer and it explains how men saw women at this time: I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits; A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits. ... Despite all of the hardships that she endured in not only her personal life, but also from the criticism that she received for being a women writer, Bradstreet has emerged as one of the most enigmatic figures in literature. ... A fel...

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Despite her literary success, Sexton continually battled depression and psychosis. ... Some thought Sexton was one of the best known and most controversial of the confessional poets, a group composed of New England writers who rose to prominence in the nineteen-sixties (Contemporary Literary Criticism 311). ...

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The intent of the following content is to provide criticism relating two separate translations of "Beowulf". ... It is best to come to personal conclusions regarding "Beowulf" and its translation, simply put a version is only as good as its author and his knowledge, a literary critic must judge on personal joy, accuracy, and aesthetics; the reality is that most people in our modern society would not be overjoyed to engage the early translations of "Beowulf" in this manner, the Heaney version is far more to borrow a term of the day "user friendly" than most. ...

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Two years later he increased his literary reputation with The Map of Love. ... Even though other authors of the Romantic era played with ideas of this sort, Thomas proposed them in such a way that he was much more highly regarded for his criticism because it was made more appealing to his readers. ...

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In 1905 she entered Bryn Mawr College, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; published nine poems, including "A Jelly-Fish," in its literary magazines Tipyn O'Bob and the Lantern; and majored in history, law, and politics, graduating with a B.A. in 1909. ... During these years Moore was reading much avant-garde poetry and criticism and was beginning to publish subjective reviews and critical essays. ...

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Both poems are about the plight of children in slave labor positions and is a direct criticism on the social and economic environment of the time thereby highlighting the lives of the common people in society. ... The two poems, "Holy Thursday" are also an excellent example of the common man, or in this case child, being used as a focus of literary work. ...

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A "howl" is a prolonged instinctive animal cry and Ginsberg's poem forcefully depicts the sense of a "sudden, angry eruption of instincts long thwarted, of the release of excluded human and literary energies"(Breslin, 227). "Howl" violated all the artistic canons of the period and provoked a literary, social, and even legal scandal. ...

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This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ...

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