Category Archives: Brooks, Cleanth
Literature and Preservation
In separate episodes, Cleanth Brooks and Harold Cannon discuss their involvement in projects that occurred under the aegis of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first segment is a discussion with Brooks about the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, … Continue reading
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Tagged Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, Preservation, Preservation -- microfilm, Thomas Jefferson
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(1)New Criticism and the American Literary Community: Summary and Response; (1) United States Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Third World; (3) American Medical Education and the Liberal Arts; (4) Commentary on Opinion Polls
William Dowling summarizes the approach to literature known as New Criticism and the close textual analysis that characterizes it. He talks about the basis of some conflicts among New Critics in the 1960s. At [5:20], Cleanth Brooks responds to Dowling, … Continue reading
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Tagged Literary Criticism
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Contemporary English and American Poetry and Poets
Muriel Bradbrook and Cleanth Brooks discuss the state of poets and poetry in the twentieth century. They describe the themes that dominate contemporary poetry and the unique expressive capacity poetry affords. Bradbrook and Brooks discuss what motivates poets to create, … Continue reading
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Tagged Poetry
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