Literary Theory Is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. The word "theory" has become an approach to reading texts. The modern sense of ... of this approach was Viklov Shklovsky, Vladimir Propp and roman Jakobson etc. Formalists were primarily oriented towards the form of literature. They deal with the study of literature as literariness. It means that text does not convey meaning but there are certain devices which bring the elements of ... defamiliarization. According to these formalists literature does not provide meaning, it only gi...

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... in this paper, I will tell my understanding of western literary criticism from two aspects, language and history. Formalism Formalism places the study of literature on a scientific footing by defining its object and establishing its own methods and procedures. In other words, they are making efforts to ... find the internal laws and principles that make a piece of literature literary, or the form of literature. They study the form of the work (as opposed to its content), although form to a formalist can connote anything from genre ... fact historically specific." The Formalists quite ...

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... one, The Motive for Metaphor, reminding us of the three main attitudes : consciousness or awareness, practical attitude, and imaginative attitude and that literature uses figure of speech for the purpose of suggesting an identity between the human mind and the world outside it. In Chapter Two, Northrop ... simply a dork with hidden beauty, and instead of the prince, it's the captain of the football team. One of the differences between older literature and newer literature, Frye says, is that as society advances the more complex the conflict needs to be. People have more needs than they u...

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... Canon is perceived as the paradigm of exquisite literature bound with key concepts fundamental to our understanding and exploration of societal and political values, rendering it to be widely admired by all. 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 ... a superior quality, a skillfully crafted masterpiece guaranteed for your enjoyment, founded on layers of significant concepts. The English Canon is often seen as an authoritative list beari...

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... thinking and learning. These different purposes produce different results, for example in the way the students respond to an essay topic, a problem or controversial piece of research. Most students think, study, and write in the way they have been trained at school and university. Each country has its own traditions not only about what students must learn but also how they ... to find most of their material independently, by reading or by their own experiments and research. When a student trained in one cultural tradition moves, as u are planning to move, to study in another country, a ...

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... , with a peer group that included such contemporaries as Robert Southey and Samuel Coleridge. These companions of Wordsworth's, but most importantly collaborators had the advantage of a male tradition in literature to work and study from. Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge are merely three of many examples of great male writers who began their literary careers with the luxury of guidance and example, an advantage ... ...

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