I studied literature in college before pursing a graduate career in comparative literature. We learned to adopt formalist theory while evaluating various texts: poetry, novels, and short stories. It ...

3 Credits The status of literature - its meaning, structure, truth value, and social function - has proven, throughout history, to be surprisingly controversial, and has generated endless commentary.

Susan J. Wolfson, What Good Is Formalist Criticism? Or; "Forms" and "Storms" and the Critical Register of Romantic Poetry, Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 37, No. 1, Ideology and Romantic Aesthetics: A ...

Style addresses questions of style, stylistics, and poetics including research and theory in discourse analysis, literary and nonliterary genres, narrative, figuration, metrics, rhetorical analysis, ...

Agha Sahib then goes on to touch upon, with examples, structuralism, deconstructionism, neo-historicism, reader-response theory, historical/biographical criticism, formalism, New Criticism ...

René GIRARD, Mimesis and Theory. Essays on Literature and Criticism, 1953-2005 Palo Alto, Stanford University Press, 2008, 344 p. EAN : 9780804755801 RÉSUMÉ Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty ...