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Category: Literary Theory

January 8, 2014 Literary Theory

Top Ten Literary Theory Tips, for Anyone

This weekend Chicago will host the annual convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). This year’s gathering will attract more

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July 16, 2013 Literary Theory

Composition Time

Romantic poets “admired the poetry of previous generations, very rightly, for the taste it left in the head, and, failing

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July 12, 2013 Literary Theory

Analysis and “Ruining the Fun”

“Secondly, and more seriously, it has been deduced from this belief that you are liable to destroy the poem if

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June 4, 2013 Literary Theory

Achebe and English

“The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.” Chinua Achebe.

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June 3, 2013 Literary Theory

Modernism and Concealed Surfaces

“Profundity must be concealed. Where? On the surface.” Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), an Austrian modernist writer, is

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May 31, 2013 Literary Theory

Jamesian

“You after all then now don’t?” Henry James (The Sacred Fount). Henry James (1843-1916) is notorious for writing things like

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