Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1925 - 379 páginas |
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... reader or an audience . Criticism , then , may be judged on purely rhetorical grounds . Aside from the value or the currency of its ideas , it is good criticism in so far as it presents a clear thesis or a coherent body of facts . Like ...
... reader or an audience . Criticism , then , may be judged on purely rhetorical grounds . Aside from the value or the currency of its ideas , it is good criticism in so far as it presents a clear thesis or a coherent body of facts . Like ...
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... reader hesitate about accepting an opinion as really very authori- tative , and yet some of our most charming literary critics are not always exact . Vagueness as to the main thesis may possibly cause one to doubt the minor dicta . It ...
... reader hesitate about accepting an opinion as really very authori- tative , and yet some of our most charming literary critics are not always exact . Vagueness as to the main thesis may possibly cause one to doubt the minor dicta . It ...
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... reader of themes . To condemn them and , by inference , all student criti- cism is an easy task , and it is still ... readers have ; but they are either very vague and so obvious that one could guess at them with his eyes shut , or they ...
... reader of themes . To condemn them and , by inference , all student criti- cism is an easy task , and it is still ... readers have ; but they are either very vague and so obvious that one could guess at them with his eyes shut , or they ...
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... reader has no business to expect anything different from what the writer chooses to give him ; the reader is not bound to like the feast , but that is his fault for having his expectations too keen . Or rather it is the fault of the ...
... reader has no business to expect anything different from what the writer chooses to give him ; the reader is not bound to like the feast , but that is his fault for having his expectations too keen . Or rather it is the fault of the ...
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... reader , though they might reach to a higher interest , e.g. the Autobiographic Sketches ; secondly , essays proper , or papers addressing themselves purely or primarily to " the understanding as an insulated faculty , " e.g. The ...
... reader , though they might reach to a higher interest , e.g. the Autobiographic Sketches ; secondly , essays proper , or papers addressing themselves purely or primarily to " the understanding as an insulated faculty , " e.g. The ...
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