... ships, castles, animals, landscape- but it takes some straining to conjure up a scene such as this one from a garden. The "garden" reading is therefore incorrect because it fails to account for some details in the poem (the wharf), because it is contradicted by some details (the singular use of ... they must stay within the area of meaning when interpreting something. The conclusions we came to in Sanders's Staying Put were that all of our answers were correct (in regards to the most significant rhetorical devices were) as long as we could prove it. This conclusion that we came up ... e...

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... . When it comes to drama people say "just add in all the rest and it's a book so what's the point. Let the writer do all the work." For most people reading a play is like listening to a conversation retold by a friend: it's not the same if u weren't there to see it all go down. More imagination is needed to read a play. Stage ... time is also important. Issues change so a plays ability to relate to current times may be a factor in this evaluation. But the fact that the play can not withstand the test of time should say something in itself. The main focus of the play should be as entertai...

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... 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 "literary theory" dates only to approximately the 1950s, when the structuralist linguists Ferdinand de Saussure began ... there is no need to look outside the text. It doesn't require any elaborate process of placing it within a context. So it emphasized close reading of the text. According to new criticism, in order to understand text we have to detach the text from context. We should put our ... literary text as absolutely insepar...

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... in the study of literature as independent of historical or authorial origins. The New Critics believed in this idea of the text in itself'. Richards tries to explain literary reading in terms of modern semantics and psychology. His new criticism is psychological criticism which is not spontaneous response, but psychological response. It is practical criticism. In Practical Criticism ... Eagleton, Ransom's ontology, text has ontological meaning, is myth. Phenomenology Phenomenological criticism, an idealist, essentialist, anti-historical, formalist and organicist type of criticism, aims at...

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... , that is, why imitate at all and can we obtain knowledge and/or pleasure through it Both Plato and Aristotle, the foremost philosophers of their time, arrived at widely different answers to the questions above. This is because art was held to be an imitation of nature or reality, and Plato and Aristotle's theories on nature and reality were widely different ... ...

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... , but this act secured forever the status of Hemingway in the ranks of great American writers. The persistence of an author's works after his or her death is the true test of a writer's mettle, and Hemingway's prose passed with flying colors. As Beegel puts it, "like the saints of the Roman Catholic Church, no writer can be genuinely "canonized" until he ... ...

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... of literature which most fully reflects this individualist and innovating reorientation. Previous literary forms had reflected the general tendency of their cultures to make conformity to traditional practice the major test of truth: the plots of classical and renaissance epic, for example, were based on past history or fable. It is surely very damaging for a novel to be in any sense ... ...

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... world over. We should also encourage the students or learners to mull over comparisons between cultures and help them come up with their own perceptions about the cultures they are reading, which will, in turn, help them have the better understanding of theirs. We negotiate to connect, indeed....

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