Modernism at the University Somers, Matthias
Orbis litterarum,
April 2017, 20170401, Letnik:
72, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
As models of academic literary study, it would appear that elocution and New Criticism could not be further apart. While elocution (the theory and art of reading aloud) supposedly belonged to a ...pre‐modernist, genteel type of criticism derived from traditional rhetoric, New Criticism is considered the quintessentially modern, serious, and professional type of criticism. Yet, a close look at the elocutionary tradition by means of two concise case studies – those of turn‐of‐the‐century elocutionists Samuel Silas Curry and Solomon Henry Clark – shows more similarities than differences. It is therefore argued that the demise of elocution as a mode of literary study was not caused by the revolutionary action of the New Critics, but by impersonal, institutional factors that played into the hands of New Criticism. The focus on elocution helps to raise the right questions about the complex relation between modernism and rhetoric, and about the delineation of a modernist canon by the New Critics, who supposedly adopted the anti‐rhetorical aesthetic dicta of high modernism. Yet, this article argues that the exclusion of the American “New Poets” from the modernist canon can only be explained by the same pressure of academic professionalization that had advantaged New Criticism in academia.
This is the first stand-alone glossary of New Testament narrative-critical terms in the English language. It is an alphabetical listing of prominent terms, concepts, and techniques of narrative ...criticism with illustrations and cross-references. Commonly used terms are defined and illustrated, these include character, characterization, double entendre, misunderstanding, implied author, implied reader, irony, narrator, point of view, plot, rhetoric, and other constitutive elements of a narrative. Lesser-known terms and concepts are also defined, such as carnivalesque, composite character, defamiliarization, fabula, syuzhet, hybrid character, MacGuffin, masterplot, primacy/recency effect, and type-scene. Major disciplines—for example, narratology, New Criticism, and reader-response criticism—are explained with glances at prominent literary critics/theorists, such as Aristotle, Mikhail Bakhtin, Wayne Booth, Seymour Chatman, Stanley Fish, E. M. Forster, Gérard Genette, Wolfgang Iser, and Susan Sniader Lanser.
The author explicates various contexts of postmodern discourses in the West, as an effort to position Korean art and society within a 'proper' context of postmodernism. The author provides four ...categories of postmodernism 1) theory in American literature, 2) theory in art and architecture, 3) post-structuralist philosophy, 4) a symptom of post-industrial society. The author emphasizes Korea's current status as "a third world nation" under a military dictatorship, and argues, therefore, that Korean art and culture cannot abandon humanist values and enlightenment ideals, because it is yet to resolve the problems of national division, class conflict, an authoritarian nation-state, and the cultural imperialism of the West.
Modernism at the University Somers, Matthias
Orbis litterarum,
04/2017, Letnik:
72, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
As models of academic literary study, it would appear that elocution and New Criticism could not be further apart. While elocution (the theory and art of reading aloud) supposedly belonged to a ...pre‐modernist, genteel type of criticism derived from traditional rhetoric, New Criticism is considered the quintessentially modern, serious, and professional type of criticism. Yet, a close look at the elocutionary tradition by means of two concise case studies – those of turn‐of‐the‐century elocutionists Samuel Silas Curry and Solomon Henry Clark – shows more similarities than differences. It is therefore argued that the demise of elocution as a mode of literary study was not caused by the revolutionary action of the New Critics, but by impersonal, institutional factors that played into the hands of New Criticism. The focus on elocution helps to raise the right questions about the complex relation between modernism and rhetoric, and about the delineation of a modernist canon by the New Critics, who supposedly adopted the anti‐rhetorical aesthetic dicta of high modernism. Yet, this article argues that the exclusion of the American “New Poets” from the modernist canon can only be explained by the same pressure of academic professionalization that had advantaged New Criticism in academia.
The problem of the point of view is considered, taking into account the vector of continuity from literary studies through history to the history of philosophy. The traditional approaches of the ...Anglo-American (G. James, P. Lubbock) and French (G. Genette) literary traditions are analyzed. The main terminology and methodological strategies that can be used in historical and historical-philosophical science are highlighted. It is demonstrated that within the framework of history, the terminology of focalization contributes to the accentuation of the figure of the researcher, who sets the conditions for the perception of historical material. Based on a critical analysis of the models of focalization proposed by A. Munslow in history, the main directions of rethinking the problem of focalization in historical and historical-philosophical practice are determined. The specificity of posing the problem of point of view and focalization in the history of philosophy is characterized. It is emphasized that turning to it allows us to pose the problem of the relationship between history and modernity, history and philosophy. Such problematization of historical and philosophical practice is much more successful than traditional terminology, contributing to the comprehension of modern development trends. The study of the problem of point of view demonstrates the commonality of the methodological problems of the humanities (literary criticism, history, history of philosophy) and the need for a general humanitarian dialogue.
On savvy reading Dressman, Mark; Rao, Dingxin
English in education,
04/2020, Letnik:
54, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This essay uses the metaphor of "savvy travelling" to discuss the limitations and problems associated with three current "best practice" approaches to the reading of literature in upper grade levels, ...particularly in the United States: close reading, response-based reading, and disciplinary literacy. A "savvy" approach to reading and reading instruction combines close attention to the text, readers' intuitive responses, and concepts from cognitive science, cultural studies, and literary theory in a narrative approach that identifies and compares the story in the text to the story of the text. Two examples from classroom practice are presented and analyzed to identify elements of savoir faire in each. Identification of these elements leads to a method of savvy reading whose goal is to produce students who will become savvy world travellers of texts on their own: readers who are autonomous, flexible, and able to read carefully and responsibly across a wide range of contexts.
The paper compares two different ways to analyse poetical texts which became dominant in Anglo-American academic scholarship in the second half of the twentieth century: the new criticism, actually ...imposing itself since the 30s, and the new historicism, whose impact started in the 80s and is still influential today. Through the analyses both offered of a poem by John Donne, The Canonization, ideological issues as well as conflicting views on the relationship between a formal engagement and a content commitment, and more generally between an intrinsic and an extrinsic approach to the study of literature (Wellek- Warren), are retraced and contextualized. The main aim is to show how political issues always affect didactic practices, critical proposals and movements, and how ideological biases did affect methodological proposals and interpretative discourses in the XXth-century early modern criticism.
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