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Category: Literary Theory

Appreciating Form in Books and Movies

A Newberry Library Adult Education Seminar This seminar offers a lively survey of some of the artistic techniques, styles, innovations, … More

film, film theory, form, literary criticism, literary theory

Introducing Trollope: The Warden

A Newberry Adult Education Seminar Anthony Trollope’s 1855 novel The Warden revolves around an English cleric whose comfortable living is called into … More

Anthony Trollope, The Warden, Victorian Literature

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 … More

beauty, book clubs, fiction, intention, literary theory, MLA, Modern Language Association, narrative, onomatopoeia, tips, Toni Morrison, top ten, zombies

Composition Time

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

composition as explanation, Gertrude Stein, product versus process, William Empson, writing

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 … More

analysis, literary criticism, literary theory, new criticism, poetry, William Empson

Achebe and English

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

African languages, Chinua Achebe, English, postcolonialism, world literature

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