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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The title of Harold Bloom's new book, "The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible," could easily describe Bloom himself. Now 81, he is by all accounts a great rock among literary critics.
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More contested than shared, rhyme functions differently in different genres, whether occasional verse, poetry, or songs. A lot of literary critics mistake rhyming verse for all rhyme, imagining other kinds as eccentric amusements or, at best preparation for poetry. Here, Caplan discusses how contemporary culture devalues the rhyme technique's significance and proposes that people should rediscover an amazing rhyming culture.
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A Southern critic by any other name would be an Agrarian or Fugitive. Four of the writers featured in this book defended their way of life against modernity 80 years ago at Vanderbilt University in "I'll Take My Stand." The others given voice here are literary critics, writers of fiction, poets and teachers. They never apologize for the South but shelter and uphold the best of their heritage. The first section of the book is called "In Dixieland" and has four essays. The first, "Introduction: A Statement of Principles," by John Crowe Ransom, is the only chapter from "I'll Take My Stand." Industrialization, Ransom argues, does not just take its toll on business but on "practices such as manners, conversation, hospitality, sympathy, family life, [and] romantic love.
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Aesthetic philosophers, theorizing literary critics and editors, and reflective commentators on the restoration of paintings, buildings, and monuments have repeatedly shown that the concept of the work is anything but self-evident. The present essay examines major attempts to conceptualize this problematic area since the 1930s, before proposing a solution based on the semiotics of C. S. Peirce and Theodor Adorno's negative dialectics that will help clarify thinking when practices of preservation and conservation are being determined. The language and thinking come ultimately from scholarly editorial activity; the working assumption is that, with suitable adjustments for the medium, it will apply to other historically orientated forms of cultural conservation.
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Steiner focuses on the representation of the Holocaust poetry, a subject considered unspeakable and undeniable among literary critics. A vast amount of cultural work has been required to surround the Holocaust, stop it from being assimilated into the continuum of history, and to keep in an untamable outrage. The unassimilable horror of the Holocaust rests on the claim of peerlessness.
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Tonight's Just Buffalo Literary Center BIG NIGHT event features poet, translator, essayist, and controversial "hyper-authorship" figure Kent Johnson--one of the most fluid and provocative voices in contemporary poetry, and one of our most trenchant critics of literary orthodoxy. The event begins at 8 p.m. in the Western New York Book Arts Center, 468 Washington St. (near Mohawk St.) in Buffalo. Admission is $5 for the general public, $4 for members of Just Buffalo and its affiliate organizations. Johnson is the author, translator, or editor of over 30 books of poetry and criticism including "Beneath a Single Moon: Buddhism in Contemporary American Poetry" (Shambhala, 1991), "Third Wave: the New Russian Poetry" (1992), and "Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada" (Roof ...
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At the dawn of the process of secularization, during what historians now refer to as the early modern period and some literary critics still call the Renaissance, the medieval religious worldview began to erode and concerns that were once clearly governed by religious institutions, rituals, and doctrines gradually became the purview of secular thought and practice--including the law and the drama. When religious certainties were unmoored, many of the hard questions once addressed by religion were taken up by secular cultural forms like the court and the stage. Here, Schwartz examines William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice to find out what was gained and what was lost in the transition toward secularization.
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Literary critics The study of literature and the hard science have very little in common, although literary critics invoke science and scientists regularly in forwarding their arguments. The state of literary criticism is discussed with an emphasis on where the field is situated in the late 20th century. Science is discussed from the standpoint of a literary critic.
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The Kindle represents a milestone in a time of transition, when a challenged publishing industry is competing with television, Guitar Hero and time burned on the BlackBerry; literary critics are bemoaning a possible demise of print culture, and Norman Mailer's recent death underlined the dearth of novelists who cast giant shadows. E-book devices like the Kindle allow you to change the font size: aging baby boomers will appreciate that every book can instantly be a large-type edition.
