Tag Archives: New Criticism

Literature, Pleasure, and Power

Richard Levin talks about literary criticism, including his observations on the New Criticism and Deconstructionism in the mid-1980s. He also focuses on new perspectives on the work of William Shakespeare. In the second segment [14:20], Robert Crunden discusses literary modernism, as illustrated … Continue reading

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The Art of Literary Biography, Part 5 of 7: Byron, Greene, and Yeats

Leland Lyons, Leslie Marchand, and Norman Sherry discuss their research  and writing practices and the issues they encounter as biographers of W. B. Yeats, Lord Byron (George Gordon), and Graham Greene, respectively. The scholars address the distinction between literary criticism and … Continue reading

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