... Foucault's ' What Is an Author ? " ( 1969 ) , an essay that is undoubtedly more systematic and rigorous than Barthes's in many respects . More drily but more carefully than Barthes , Foucault provides an extraordinary sense of the ...
Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace
... Sylvia Plath's 'The Applicant' concerns a potential husband who is being interviewed for the job, and just as the speaker in 'Daddy' selects a 'man in black' as a substitute for her dead father,2 so in Plathian rhyme the speaker in ...
... The Yellow Wallpaper' (1892), became something of a test case for feminist criticism and feminist accounts of reading. Mary Jacobus's essay positions itself in opposition to 'rationalist' feminist readings of the story and, as such ...
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
... Shakespeare's Hamlet (1600–01). The play itself is cryptic and elusive about the apparition and truthfulness of the figure of the ghost of Hamlet's father: why is it, for instance, that when the ghost appears in Act 3, scene 4, it is only ...
The Performing Set: The Broadway Designs of William and Jean Eckart
... ONCE UPON A MATTRESS , THE FAIRY TALE PRINCESS IS AS TOUGH AS NAILS . THE ... script , now called Once Upon a Mattress , built up the part of the Princess ... There was also a hilar- ious dance number for the Princess called " The Spanish ...
... Reading Ishiguro Today', 78). 36 Hunnewell, 'Kazuo Ishiguro, The Art of Fiction No. 196'. 37 Brian Bethune, 'Kazuo Ishiguro's Newest Book Is an “Emotional Reply” to “Never Let Me Go”', Maclean's, 26 February 2021 (accessed online at www ...
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
... Plath's poem 'Daddy'. This poem is about the speaker's love and hatred of her father and describes the process by which she comes to exorcise him – by 'killing' him twice and finally driving a stake through his heart. 'Daddy' neatly ...
... notebook, for example, she describes being 'possessed' all day by 'my hate ... country she never wants to see again: 'No, I don't want England. England is ... country. 'Now – now I want to write recollections of my own country', she ...
This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing
... Vladimir Script, and can be recited or remembered 'by heart', but it will make no essential difference to the poem as a poem or novel as a novel. In this sense, poems or novels (unlike paintings, 82 Thinking about literature 7. Thinking ...
Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace
... Michael Cunningham's mother: see John Mullan, 'The Hours by Michael Cunningham: Week Three: Readers' Responses', The Guardian, 8 July 2011, and 'Michael Cunningham meets the Guardian book club – podcast' (www.theguardian.com/books/audio ...
This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing
... Romeo and Juliet encourages you to think about how the script is being ... scene entails different questions about exactly how and where – a street? A ... balcony, a bed, a tomb, as well as smaller objects such as a sword or shield, a ...
This 1999 book examines the way in which the Romantic period's culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can ...
This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing
... W.H. Auden , renewed . Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown , Ltd. All rights reserved . ' Funeral Blues ' , copyright 1940 and renewed 1968 by W.H. Auden ; from COLLECTED POEMS by W. H. Auden , edited by Edward Mendelson . Used by ...
... Kazuo Ishiguro, 'A Family Supper', in Malcolm Bradbury, ed., The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (London: Viking, 1987). 15 Barry Lewis offers an overview of this approach in Kazuo Ishiguro (Manchester: Manchester ...
Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences
... Cold War inevitable. Another may argue that the Cold War arose from not just the distribution of power, but also from the specific domestic political dynamics in the United States and Soviet Union and despite the lack of any immediate ...
... research with little effort to contribute to the development of theory . An important example of rigorous policy evaluation research is the work of Robert Yin's COSMOS organization . He has discussed methods for this type of research in ...
... authors' in general: 'What is meant by the word Author?', we might ask with Michel Foucault, 'What is an Author?' (Foucault 1979). The history of literary criticism from the earliest times may in fact be said to be organized around ...
... great.” In 22:12 the usage is more specic, promising payment to everyone ... is not far off. Several considerations may help point the way forward. First, the ... chalice as a metaphor for the current order. is chalice is the natural ...
... intention behind 'The Intentional Fallacy' was to try to discipline the 'muddle', the 'mishmash', and the 'sheer burbling' of contemporary literary criticism, to clarify the nature and status of statements about literary texts, to ...
... William's 'I wandered lonely as a Cloud'–'I wandered lonely as a Cloud / That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd / A host of dancing Daffodils; / Along the Lake, beneath the trees, / Ten thousand ...
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