#cleanth brooks

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I’m attempting to prioritize reading the primary texts whenever possible whilst studying lit theory. There is so much that it’s a bit overwhelming, but I’m enjoying annotating the heck out of everything.

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Five Literary Theories and Their Limitations

Literary theory has its limitations. Formalism? Perfectionists insisting that lit has nothing to do with race or gender. Psychoanalytic criticism? The same problems Freud has, and then some. We can't dismantle history. But we sure need to know it.

This is going to be one of my last posts on literary theory, I promise. At least for a bit. Well, maybe until I finish reading David Herman’s essay “Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive Revolution” (fascinating stuff about the mind itself as a product, as well as a producer, of discourse). We’ll see. But first. a toast to some of the most compelling literary theories, the fundamentals of…

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The Well Wrought Urn, Cleanth Brooks

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The 'heresy of paraphrase' is an expression due to the critic Cleanth Brooks. The heresy to which Brooks referred is that of thinking that the meaning of a poem can be contained in a paraphrase; from which you can easily proceed to the thought that it is a heresy to think that it can be contained in a translation or that it can be conveyed in another style or another art-form or in any other way than in the form of this particular poem.

Roger Scruton, Beauty

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Was ridiculously happy to find The Well Wrought Urn and The House on the Strand on last weekend’s book haul :D

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O Som e a Fúria: A complexidade psicológica de Faulkner

O Som e a Fúria: A complexidade psicológica de Faulkner

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Autor: William Faulkner

Editora: Companhia das Letras / Clássico Norte-americano / Idioma: Português / 376 páginas

Como analisar uma obra que tem como ponto forte sua inconsistência narrativa e sua forte potencialidade humana na construção de seus personagens? Considerado como um dos grandes clássicos da literatura…

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'What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.' -Cleanth Brooks | Click here for more daily quotes.