... poem as well as the group of students that thought it was about a meadow etc. And in the quote "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 "daffodil"). Because it explains some details less satisfactorily than the "sunset" reading ("ships of purple," "mingle"), and finally because it rests on assumptions not grounded in the poem itself (the wind stops). The ... ships, castles, animals, landscape- but it takes some straining to conjure up a scene suc...

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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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... 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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... . 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 ... ...

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