... given property, and " it is in fact historically specific." The Formalists quite rightly thought that literary criticism was overburdened with socio-political issues. In the late nineteenth century literature was indeed one of the principal media of discussion for political and philosophical issues. Consequently literary criticism was almost exclusively the guarded territory of journalism. Literary criticism was not ... tone, and intention). We have symbolic discourse (scientific/poetic language) and evocative discourse. There is mysterious time of the evocator and the evocated in poetry...

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