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Tag: literary criticism

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

Essentials of Literary and Film Theory

A Newberry Library Adult Education Seminar This seminar, scheduled for the winter/spring 2020 term, is now concluded. This seminar offers … More

film, film theory, literary criticism, literary theory

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

by Steven J. Venturino Alpha Books/Penguin/DK, 2013 Used in colleges and college-prep courses in the US, AS/A2 prep in the … More

literary criticism, literary theory

My Excellent Twitter Reviews for #TLSAPP

Presented here in all their glory, and in order from first to last, are my losing entries for the TLS … More

close but no cigar, contests, Edith Wharton, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Eliot, Henry James, Hobbit, Joseph Conrad, literary criticism, Mark Twain, parody, Raymond Chandler, Times Literary Supplement, TLS

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

 

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