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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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May 30, 2013 Literary Theory

Brooks and Poetic Language

“But the poet has no one term. Even if he had a polysyllabic technical term, the term would not provide

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May 29, 2013 Literary Theory

Blanchot and Poverty

What is irritating about poverty is that it is visible, and anyone who sees it thinks: You see, I’m being

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May 29, 2013 Film Theory / Literary Theory

Showing and Telling

You can hold a mimetic theory of the novel if you believe the narrational methods of fiction to resemble those

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