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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
The question for the Chicago School (as it was for Aristotle) was always what the purpose of the theory of criticism was, what hypotheses were brought to bear by the theory about the nature of literature (for instance, whether it consisted of the words alone, or whether it was to be thought of as part of a larger context such as an era or an artist's life), and the definitions of words (such ...
The English Intelligencer (United Kingdom, 1966–1968) The Glebe (United States, 1913–1914) Glimmer Train (United States, 1990–2019) Grand Street (United States, 1981–2004) The Harvard Monthly (United States, 1885–1917) Horizon (United Kingdom, 1940–1949) Ireland Today (Ireland, 1936–1938) The Lace Curtain (Ireland, 1969–1978)
Many contributors focused on the topics of education and politics, but, according to Richard Poirier, "its most important achievement was a nearly complete revaluation of English literature". [5] That is not to say that they always supported these critics; according to John Grant, Scrutiny denounced "the later work of Empson and Richards" and ...
Reader-response criticism argues that literature should be viewed as a performing art in which each reader creates their own, possibly unique, text-related performance. The approach avoids subjectivity or essentialism in descriptions produced through its recognition that reading is determined by textual and also cultural constraints. [ 3 ]
It is the official journal of the European Society for the Study of English. The current editors-in-chief are Greta Olson, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, Isabela Carrera Suárez, and Frederik van Dam. [1] [2] The journal appears three times a year and the individual issues are devoted to specific topics, e.g.: Letters and letter writing; New Englishes
The Journal of Modern Literature is a quarterly peer-reviewed literary journal covering studies of literature in any language produced after 1900. It was established in 1977 at Temple University ; since 1996, it has been published by Indiana University Press , who purchased the journal in 2000.
Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today is a 1980 book by literary critic Geoffrey Hartman.In the book, Hartman argues for literary criticism to be taken as seriously as a form of creative literature in its own right, and he discusses the difficulties that literature professors face in the contemporary American university.