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		All that is accomplished in his work relating the particular to the general case applies both to literary technique and theory, like personification, and also to the limits of political and historical theory as well.
		The mismatch caused by the use of these two literary techniques, and the consequent relationship created between the general and the particular case is a what gives the poem its meta-literary, speculative, or theoretical level, just as Chaucer's internal-external audience mismatch is what creates his.
		Chaucer uses the literary techniques described, including historical representation, to explore issues that are purely literary and to separate the literary from the political sphere.
	www.luc.edu /publications/medieval/vol17/17ch4.html (4854 words)

	Literary Devices
		Literary techniques refers to any specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey meaning.
		An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in a text.
		Most literary essay tasks will instruct the writer to “avoid plot summary;” the term is therefore rarely useful for response or critical analysis.
	mrbraiman.home.att.net /lit.htm (2061 words)

	G1 Packet 2: Process Letter
		Furthermore, consider the literary fate of d'Holbach and de Sade in comparison to that of La Mettrie: Sade is merely embraced for his gothic sexual elements; and while all three are largely ignored, La Mettrie's poor little work is given due respect while that of Holbach and Sade are dismissed as the sophistries of curmudgeons.
		Although this technique risks portraying the ideas as sophistries and mystical platitudes, the alternative is to risk having the revolutionary ideas remain buried under their own explanations precisely because of their lack of poetic liveliness.
		The larger technique is Literary Philosophy in general, constructed of lively (self-contained) aphoristic bits, again used either with bits of varying length or integrated into a different form.
	www.iwaynet.net /~ore/gradtwopackettwo.html (5746 words)

	English Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Individual instructor may focus on the origins and development of the novel, concentrating on the growth of technique and changing cultural concerns, or on representative types of the novel.
		Emphasis will be on analysis of each author's style and voice, and of the narrative techniques he or she employs to tell the story most effectively.
		Focuses on the growth and development of technique and on the ethical, psychological, and political concerns of the period.
	www.nl.edu /academics/cas/las/english/englishcoursedesc.cfm (1743 words)

	MSN Encarta - James Joyce
		He was one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century.
		Joyce is best known for his epic novel Ulysses (1922), which uses stream of consciousness, a literary technique that attempts to portray the natural and sometimes irrational flow of thoughts and sensations in a person’s mind.
		He also compared the literary use of symbols to the religious use of sacraments, which are the outward and visible representations of inward and invisible spiritual states.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568953/James_Joyce.html (642 words)

	Essay: Modernism Critical Review (Assignment Sheet)
		I would be happy to discuss the possibility of using other techniques with you as well.) As a bare minimum if you hope to convince your reader, you will want to include at least two body paragraphs with at least three support quotations in each body paragraph.
		Ideally, you will use a different literary technique in each paragraph (or at the very least if you use the same technique in each paragraph--for example, characterization--be sure to focus on a different example of that technique in different paragraphs--for example, one character in one paragraph and a different character in a second paragraph).
		These passages should BOTH be examples of the literary technique you are focusing on in that paragraph AND contain direct support for portions of the topic/attitude part of your thesis.
	members.aol.com /DrEofBWC/Am-Lit-1/Critical-Review-Assignment.html (2005 words)

	McLuhan Studies Premiere Issue: On the Ezra Pound/Marshall McLuhan Correspondence
		Technique of allusion as you use it (situational analogies) seems comparable to this type of circuit.
		Although in 1948 McLuhan was interested in reconstruction largely as a means to understanding the history of literary technique, he soon began to see alternative possibilities.
		The history of art and the techniques employed to produce it were inextricably bound up with cultural changes that were, in turn, linked structurally to the extensions of man reached through technological innovation.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /mcluhan-studies/v1_iss1/1_1art11.htm (2335 words)

	PROBLEMS OF THESAURUS CREATING
		Terms such as literary composition and literary technique are very close in semantic sense and subgroups of 82.08 in UDC and cross references to the term, literary composition, correspond with each other.
		Literary work could be observed as a sign realized on two levels: first level is artistic text itself as signify, while second level is interpretation of meaning of this text as signified.
		Both, folk and popular literature could be realized as literary texts in various genres (poetry, prose, novel, play etc.) and these terms (folk and popular literature) cannot have same hierarchical level as genres in their classical meaning.
	web.simmons.edu /~chen/nit/NIT'91/041-fil.htm (1881 words)

	Literary Terms
		Second, there is pressure in the literary community to throw out all standards as the nihilism of the late 20th century makes itself felt in the literature departments of the universities.
		Modernism is defined by its rejection of the literary conventions of the nineteenth century and by its opposition to conventional morality, taste, traditions, and economic values.î (ìGlossary of Literary Termsî).
		Philology:Ý ì(from Greek, "love of words") is sometimes used to mean all approaches to literature, sometimes to mean especially those kinds of literary study that flourished in Germany in the late nineteenth century, and sometimes to mean the field on the borderline between literary criticism and linguistics.
	english.montclair.edu /isaacs/605LitResearch/litermFA02.htm (8819 words)

	Contributions to Adaptationist Literary Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fromm is a distinguished literary essayist who has countered postmodern theory from an intuitively naturalistic orientation and has articulated the naturalistic dimensions of ecocriticism (1991, 1996, 1998).
		Darwinian literary criticism uses information from the social sciences and acknowledges the validity of empirical criteria for truth, but its methods are humanistic—they involve tact, intuition, and personal response.
		In the area of Darwinian literary science, he is the single or primary author of three articles in press that report the results of using large-scale databases to conduct statistical analyses of the depiction of heroines cross-culturally (“Can literary study be scientific?”, “The heroine with a thousand faces,” and “Patterns of characterization in folk tales”).
	babel.uoregon.edu /cogsci/biopoetbib.htm (3103 words)

	Constrained writing - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Constrained writing is a literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern.
		This is not generally what is meant by 'constrained writing' in the literary sense, which is motivated by more aesthetic concerns.
		The Oulipo group is a gathering of writers who use such techniques.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Constrained_writing (328 words)

	C:\WEBSHARE\WWWROOT\HA121\IMAGES\authorproducer.htlm.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is because of this that the correct political tendency of a work extends also to its literary quality: because a politic tendency which is correct comprises a literary tendency which is correct.
		At the same time, the concept of technique represents the dialectical starting-point from which the sterile dichotomy of form and content can be surmounted.
		If, then, we were entitled earlier on to say that the correct political tendency of a work includes its literary quality because it includes its literary tendency, we can now affirm more precisely that this literary tendency may consist, in a progressive development of literary technique, or in a regressive one.
	www.msu.edu /course/ha/452/authorproducer.html (3001 words)

	Walsh, Timothy: The Dark Matter of Words
		Timothy Walsh's study of the function and significance of absence in literature demonstrates its centrality in terms of both literary technique and philosophical consequence.
		The aesthetic generation of uncertainty, he demonstrates, is not a roadblock on the path to meaning or a sign of some radical and suppressed internal contradiction; rather, it is as basic an artistic aim as the desire to evoke sympathy, laughter, or outrage.
		Coining the phrase "structured absence" to explain a central tenet in his discussion of the "mechanics" of uncertainty, Walsh analyzes various literary devices and tropes involved in generating a felt sense of absence and a purposeful uncertainty.
	www.siu.edu /~siupress/titles/f98_titles/walsh_dark.htm (352 words)

	Art:Technique Quotes - Literary Quotes About Art:Technique and Practically Everything Else (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The artist can know all the technique in the world, but if he feels nothing, it will mean nothing.
		One must transcend techniques so that art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
		One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing.
	quotes.prolix.nu /Art/Technique (346 words)

	Honours courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Description: A seminar designed to extend awareness of how style and form contribute to meaning in literary works; poetic, narrative, and dramatic technique; representative theoretical approaches and their application; the inter-dependency of literary technique and critical interpretation.
		Description: Varieties of literary and critical theory from the first half of the 20th century, examining the theories in themselves and considering how they emerged from their historical matrices.
		Description: Literary and critical theory in the later part of the 20th century, covering poststructuralist strategies (in deconstruction, psychoanalysis, new historicism, and feminism) and the "politicization of aesthetics" (in neo-Marxist theory, postcolonialism, gender studies, and cultural studies).
	www.engl.uvic.ca /Undergrad/honscourses.html (320 words)

	BIG TABLE Court Opinion
		With respect to Kerouac, it was stated that his work was included because of the specific literary technique employed by the writer and, also, the inclusion constituted an attempt at a broader description of Kerouac's place in American literature.
		Norris testified that, while he did regard the publication as a whole as a serious literary effort, in his review of it which was published in the Chicago Sun-Times his literary criticism of the book was adverse and unfavorable and that he did not advise his readers to read it.
		Letters from three gentlemen contained nothing on the subject of their views as to the literary merit of the publication but expressed their views on the legal question as to whether the publication is obscene.
	www.poetrycenter.org /about/perspectives/usps.html (9174 words)

	CliffsNotes::Literary Terms & Poetry Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The writings of the lawyer and the literary critic are both susceptible to jargon.
		Narrative technique is a general term (like "devices," or "resources of language") that asks you to discuss the procedures used in the telling of a story.
		Examples of the techniques you might use are point of view, manipulation of time, dialogue, or interior monologue.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/Section/id-109026.html (975 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Whereas literary realism tended to focus on the travails of life in the upper classes, naturalist writing featured characters surviving in far grittier surroundings, often in a universe indifferent to human suffering.
		Naturalism is often described as the representation of the negative forces of real life, and fiction in this literary sub-genre is often populated with characters whose relationship with their surroundings is especially difficult or challenging.
		Unlike realism, which focuses on literary technique, naturalism implies a philosophical position: for naturalistic writers, since human beings are, in Emile Zola's phrase, "human beasts," characters can be studied through their relationships to their surroundings."
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=663 (2202 words)

	Style: Revitalizing the reader: literary technique and the language of sacred experience in D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady ...
		Through an analysis of the literary devices and sacred discourses deployed in the erotic episodes, I demonstrate that the initial attempt to revitalize readers eventually gives way to a deconstructive impulse that prevents readers from forming new erotic dogmas and encourages first-hand exploration.
		It is sometimes forgotten that Lawrence was fundamentally a religious artist: that is, his sensibilities and artistic aims were profoundly shaped by his ongoing experience of the divine.
		Because his ultimate aim was to produce a spiritual transformation in his readers by evoking "new, really new feeling," especially the numinous "feeling of being beyond life or death," he became particularly intrigued with the structure and function of religious initiation rites (Phoenix 520, 527-28).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_1_32/ai_54019325 (1074 words)

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		Although this work is no longer at the center of discussion about the sublime, the contribution of Peri hupsous to the rhetorical tradition has been extraordinary, not only in associating the literary sublime with the grandeur of its sources, but also in opening for wider discussion considerations about the impact of art on its audience.
		However, when Edmund Burke released his theories on the sublime in 1757, he hardly treated literary aspects at all, and Burke's empiricist and psychological approach was succeeded in turn by the philosophical views of Kant.
		Eventually, the technique of the sublime advanced in Peri hupsous may shed additional light over the general development of imagery in eighteenth-century literature, as well as over the interrelations between literary technique and the developing ideal of imagination as the essence of poetry.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~clj/MalmAbstract.html (364 words)

	Realism in American Literature
		Broadly defined as "the faithful representation of reality" or "verisimilitude," realism is a literary technique practiced by many schools of writing.
		Although strictly speaking, realism is a technique, it also denotes a particular kind of subject matter, especially the representation of middle-class life.
		As the United States grew rapidly after the Civil War, the increasing rates of democracy and literacy, the rapid growth in industrialism and urbanization, an expanding population base due to immigration, and a relative rise in middle-class affluence provided a fertile literary environment for readers interested in understanding these rapid shifts in culture.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/realism.htm (1090 words)

	Thoreau's literary technique, or lack thereof (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation.
		I find Thoreau's argument interesting because he does not rely as heavily on metaphors, parallels, and other literary techniques as past authors we have read.
		Thoreau sets up a messiah-like figure to which no ordinary, or even extraordinary legislator could compare, then accuses the government of being unable even to deal with the most simple of problems.
	www.victorianweb.org /courses/nonfiction/thoreau/baskin.html (416 words)

	Cliff Notes: Original Version! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sections on author, plot, character, setting are followed by an essay on literary technique and a final analysis in the form of study questions.
		Sections on literary technique and study questions follow in subsequent lessons.
		Continuing to challenge students to construct a Cliffs Notes guide to the class literature at hand, this lesson adds a section on literary technique.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /builderv03/lptools/lpshared/displayunit.asp?unitId=340 (156 words)

	The Gospel of John contains much literary symmetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The author of the Fourth Gospel used numerous literary techniques to convey information.
		One literary technique was A, B, A’ symmetry.
		The author of the Gospel of John intentionally uses the literary device of “bookends” to emphasize the Eucharistic importance of Jesus’ ministry (B).
	www.pitt.edu /~odonnell/GJ1.htm (1218 words)

	English 3310: Survey of American Literature, 1865–Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In section one, you are required to explain the literary significance of the quote.
		For example, you may need to recognize that a certain passage is an example of cataloguing and explain the meaning of that technique, the effects produced by that technique, and that such a technique is characteristic of Whitman’s poetry.
		Or, as another example, you may need to recognize that the quote describes a recurrent image in a story and how its meaning is representative of a literary movement such as naturalism or modernism.
	cdis.missouri.edu /studentinfo/coursedata/2197/final.asp (772 words)

	Essay or Coursework - In our time - Through an exquisite combination of literary technique and absurd realism, Flannery ...
		Essay or Coursework - In our time - Through an exquisite combination of literary technique and absurd realism, Flannery O'Connor reveals to the reader a grotesque underside of life in the rural south of the United States.
		Coursework and Essays: By Level: I.B. World Literature: In our time - Through an exquisite combination of literary technique and absurd realism, Flannery O'Connor reveals to the reader a grotesque underside of life in the rural south of the United States
		In our time - Through an exquisite combination of literary technique and absurd realism, Flannery O'Connor reveals to the reader a grotesque underside of life in the rural south of the United States.
	www.coursework.info /i/65753.html (736 words)

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