Category: Criticism & Theory

Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels

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The history of the chosen people, which begins with Exodus 1, at the very outset and with a clear purpose, refers back to the history as found in Genesis (compare Exodus 1:1-6,8 with Genesis 46:27; 50:24; and see EXODUS, I, 3), although hundreds of years had clasped between these events; which years are ignored, because they were in their details of no importance for the religious history of the people of God. Diamond accepts the probability that an independent agricultural revolution occurred in China.

Novels and Novelists

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We begin our study of archetypes, then, with a world of myth, an abstract or purely literary world of fictional and thematic design, unaffected by canons of plausible adaptation to familiar experience. In essence: the larger the population and the larger the number of so-called competing societies, the more inventions and innovations there will be. The subdivision “History and criticism” means that the book offers literary criticism, history, and analysis on that topic.

In Defense of Reading

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Indeed, Horkheimer criticizes “traditional theory” in light of the rejection of its representational view of knowledge and its nonhistorical subject. Epiphanius (De mensur. et ponderib., 4, 6; P. Some go so far as to claim that, since poetry is the noble science par excellence, base birth disqualifies a man for the profession of poetry. Veblen maintained that orthodox economics was the study of man, but with man abstracted out of the analysis.

The Late Work of Sam Shepard

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The first stage is defining the rhetorical unit, the amount of text to be studied.115 This may be an entire book of the Bible, or a section within a book. They are Salus, Venus, Virtus, that is to say safety (of the state), Jove, and virtue. LISA: Anything else bothering you? [Jeff nods slightly.] JEFF: Uh huh. In the 20th century vampires have had a resurgence in America during the depression years where, with their foreignness, formality, and outlandish, aberrant nature, they “buttress Americans’ commitment to the devils they knew.” More recently the 1960’s horror films produced by England’s Hammer Studios represent a postwar rebellion against the reimposition of patriarchal authority, while in the 70s and 80s vampires become a vehicle for the feminist movement’s reconstructions of a new, sensitized man.

Silvae (Oxford Classical Texts)

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Richard Wollheim: ‘The Work of Art as Object' 1970. From this perspective the discipline of hermeneutics gradually moves from a methodological approach to the text toward the modern conception that hermeneutics is what happens when we interpret a text or how one comes to understanding. They had been attacked as early as 1792 by a certain Evanson. Rembrandt's Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master�s Portraits By Michael Taylor. Its golden age in English literature was the age of Burton, Nashe, Marston, and Urquhart of Cromarty, the uninhibited translator of Rabelais, who in his spare time was what Nashe would call a "scholastical squitter-book," producing books with such titles as Trissotetras, Pantochronochanon, Exkubalauron and Logopandecteison.

The poetical works of John Milton Volume 29

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However, that does not mean that the global market of nations actually exists. Fashion Studies is an emerging international academic field in which the school is playing a crucial role at both the undergraduate and the graduate levels. This must be the basis for his argument that "the Graeco-Judeo-Christian tradition of empirical inquiry" is one of the reasons why Europe triumphed. In Greek and Roman teaching, students were continuously stimulated to read, study, and analyze the classical texts from the past, which formed the models of stylistic imitation and emulation.

Practice of Poetry

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In fact, their interpretations of excavated evidence often differ widely. 5. Art is now evaluated not by plain men but by perverted and self-confident critics. Their common background goes something like this: “Once upon a time when we, the authors, were little girls, we dreamed of becoming Cinderella. Yet, he is so far removed from Horace in spirit that one would like to put him as far away as possible in date too.

Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance

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The paper is from an ongoing exhibit at UC Irvine featuring Jacques Derrida’s papers. This brief article is an exceptionally well-written, documented overview of Copland's life, works, and critical reception. New York: Elsevier Publishing Co., 1977. [“As Cinderella and the Prince fade into the Happily Ever After, our attention is diverted from the leftover and mangled stepsisters. He has humorously quoted the example of a mermaid to represent a ruined decorum.

Imperial Panegyric in Statius (Studies on Themes and Motifs

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The approach somewhat anticipated structuralism, draws on various psychologies, and is less concerned with isolating what is special than showing what it has in common with works in a similar category. We have Nietzsche proclaiming the advent of a new divine power in man, a proclamation which is somewhat confused by including a theory of identical recurrence. The king and queen of ancient Thebes, Laius and Jocasta, are told in a prophecy that their newborn son, after he has grown up, will murder his father and marry his mother.

Alternative Theater in Taiwan: Feminist and Intercultural

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Thus, for example, works in the "realistic," or representational, mode (the ill-fated "modern" novel L�vi-Strauss speaks of) stand (nonpejoratively) at the opposite end of the spectrum from those in the "mythical mode," which, because they are about characters having the greatest possible powers and who act "near or at the conceivable limits of desire" (136), are the "most abstract and conventionalized" (134). Art critics help viewers perceive, interpret, and judge artworks. The pure myth is clearly one of death and revival; the story as we have it is slightly displaced, but the mythical pattern is easy to see.