Audience Reception When It is Our Youth

Maiden at the well/Youth on the road II. ... Reception a. ... Homer then describes the second element, the reception. ... It is likely that Homer's intended audience were aware of the already existing friendship between Achilles and his friends Odysseus, Phoinix, and Ajax, and the narrator's identifying them as such would be superfluous. ... The events related to the element of reception, such as recognizing the visitor and moving toward and embracing the visitor are necessarily absent from this scene. ...

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It needs to be taken in to account she published her critique at a much more open minded time when the book is printed in full and Nabokov is a renowned author of the past rather than at the time of initial reception when it was unlike anything anyone had ever read before. ... If Lolita was as horrible and criminal as people suggested it would not have had this revolutionary reception and placed such a landmark on literature. ... Lolita should not be banned just because it is for an older audience. ... Instead this power is trying to censor our books, an actual sophisticated art form. ......

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The angel is poised above Orlando and her daughter, resplendent and androgynous, pealing out the ecstasy of being "neither a woman nor a man," its exuberance inviting the audience to celebrate the eradication of chronology, distance and gendered characteristics. ... Though heir to a name that meant power, land and property, surely when Orlando was born, it wasn't privilege he sought, but company." From the outset, subjective camera techniques inscribe the viewer as complicitious company with a shared horizon of understanding so that eventually the audience has become so complicitous that ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Assignment Discuss the cultural reception of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos 1-2 (1812) and how this contributed to and/or reflected Byron's celebrity and reputation. ... When we first heard of the poem of Childe Harold-a Romaunt-what could we expect, but a new assortment of chivalrous tales, of amours and battles, of giants and deliverers, of Knights and Saracens, of dwarfs and demons? ... And our puzzle is now to account for those portentous titles of a poem, the subject of which is certainly neither chastity, nor valour, nor truth; nor fairies, nor damsels, nor deliverers; no...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION i DECLARATION ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii ABSTRACT v INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE 4 MASS MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND DEVELOPMENT...

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His youth, however, was passed during some of the most tumultuous years in the history of Florence. ... Machiavelli had served audiences with Cesare and witnessed the intrigues culminating in the murder of his disaffected captains, which he carefully described in the Method Adopted by Duke Valentino to Murder Vitellozzo Vittli. As the "Florentine Secretary," he was present a few month later in Rome when the end of Cesare came to pass with disgrace following the death of Alexander VI. ... Finally, his efforts bore no fruit when the troops of Emperor Charles V sacked Rome. ... Whi...

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When Shakespeare's company performed Act V, for instance, the noble men and women in the first audience of the play would be watching other noble men and women (Hippolyta, Theseus, Helena, Demetrius, Hermia, and Lysander) doing on stage exactly what they themselves were doing in real life: watching a play meant to entertain them at a wedding. ... Shakespeare's clearest allusion to the royal member of his first audience, however, comes in Act II, Scene 1, when Oberon describes to Puck the fateful flower, "love-in-idleness,"" that will produce the magic juice. ... When these m...

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It would conveniently enable his audience to place him (and hence, his story) within the parameters which his history provide. ... Unfortunately this "death" has not, suggests Foucault, been a final one, for the drive to resurrect a subject position that corresponds eerily to the writer still distorts (in collusion with the Author Function) the reception of a narrative. Foucault claims that the same questions are still asked of texts in the `post-author' critical world: "From where does it come, who wrote it, when, under what circumstances, or beginning with what design?" ... Yet...

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While this is a particular house, belonging to the Darling family, Barrie assumes that members of his audience recognize and identify with it because they, like the Darlings, are middle class: if they don't live in a house like the Darlings', they know of people who do. ... Says Mr Darling to his wife, "I warn you, Mary, that unless this tie is round my neck we don't go out to dinner to-night, and if I don't go out to dinner to-night I never go to the office again, and if I don't go to the office again you and I starve, and our children will be thrown into the stree...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate