Sentences with phrase «at literary criticism»

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I would say Evans, and many of the commenters, are missing the point that several hundred years of scholarship in the fields of literary and textual criticism enable us to arrive at at - least reasonable interpretations of religious texts driven by context, the literary genre, etc..

Performance studies was developing, at that time, into a discipline of inquiry within communication studies that acknowledged many ancestors in its family tree including rhetorical theory, dramaturgy, and literary criticism.

If you properly engage in this work, you will be interested in arriving at a position on whatever it is that interests you (philosophy, critical theory, history, philology, literary criticism, or whatever) that is preferable to any other that you know of on that question, and you will concomitantly want to be clear as to what the position that you construct and defend is, what it excludes, how best to show that its competitors are less adequate than the one you want to defend, and in what sense this is true.

He seemed to be unaware of this actual process, even though some of the centers of biblical form and literary criticism, (especially in Austria - Germany (ie Tubingen University)-RRB- HAD begun to be aware of the historical, (archeologically validated) processes, (and eventually at Harvard and Yale and Princeton, and I'm sure other places I don't know about), by the time Smith was doing his thing.

Higher criticism includes an analysis of the literary genre of the text, its historical background, the history of the oral tradition behind the text, and the cultural and psychological factors at work on the author and editor (or editors) of the text.

Kenyon College at Gambier was the center of the New Criticism and the home of the journal which for two decades dominated literary circles — the Kenyon Review.

At the heart of a thriving literary culture, we should find a thriving criticism.

... my memory of his sojourn there [at Tuskeegee University] was kept alive by the sight of his name on checkout slips of so many of the library books of fiction, poetry, history, and literary criticism that had become the main part of my own personal extracurricular reading program.

And this is what I have found myself doing, at first almost by accident and now more self - consciously, both because I think that literary criticism can do some things that historical criticism can not do and because I find it to be of compelling interest.

I have already indicated the way in which literary criticism furthers the development of approaches used in Gospel studies, while at the same time it represents a major shift in orientation away from the longstanding preoccupation with historical questions.

Fish's own tolerance during his chairmanship at Duke for the cacophony that literary criticism has become, indeed his encouragement of it, does not contradict his exegesis of Milton; rather, that exegesis confirms it.

The English poet and essayist Matthew Arnold speaks about such historic moments of creative arousal in literature in his 1865 essay «The Function of Criticism at the Pres - ent Time»: «The grand work of literary genius,» says Arnold, «is a work of synthesis and exposition,... its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them; of dealing divinely with these ideas....

Players that weren't forced into literary criticism classes as kids will probably be too busy marvelling at the colourful, cartoony visuals, and cracking sound effects to spend too much time contemplating what it all means anyway.

She has contributed to, and been written about, in several anthologies of literary criticism including: The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (Fence Books, 2015); The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip - Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015); What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (University of Alabama Press, 2015); The & Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2015); I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues Pess, 2012); eco language reader (Portable Press at Yo - Yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010); American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2002); and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (University of Michigan Press, 2002).

Hanson's adoption of this close, line by line analysis of a poem was greatly influenced by his relationship with the New Criticism movement that proliferated mid-century literary criticism while he was studying poetry at the University ofCriticism movement that proliferated mid-century literary criticism while he was studying poetry at the University ofcriticism while he was studying poetry at the University of Chicago.

In fifteen essays, the novelist looks at the work of Gerhard Richter, On Kawara, and Ed Ruscha, among literary criticism and pop culture.

But at least it's good to know that your criticism isn't literary.