a critical approach to literature that concentrates upon analysis and explication of individual texts and considers historical and biographical information less important than an awareness of the work’s formal structure. —New Critic,n. See also:Criticism ...
The literary criticism of new media is an independent criticism type that is based on or in line with elements of the literary and artistic media,focusing on the relationship between the text and media.It was founded on the realistic basis of the emergence and development of the literary phenom...
blended in the criticism and theory of both movements. Although this new form of historicism centers history as the subject of research, it differs from the "old" in its understanding of history. While traditional historicism regards history as "universal," new historicism ...
lingering tensions within the House GOP over what to do about Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Act (FISA), after deep divisions forced Republicans to punt the issue late last year. Johnson’s handling of how to reauthorize surveillance powers also led to widespread criticism of his ...
It was met with especially harsh criticism by the Catholic Church for the accusation that it is behind a two-thousand-year-old cover-up concerning what the Holy Grail is, the concept that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene were married, and that the union produced a daughter. ...
Trump is increasingly, however, someone who considers his political opponents the enemy, is permanently out for revenge and is increasingly unstable and unhinged.” Harris’ comments come as her campaign jumps on Trump’s latest remarks about his political opposition, working...
“beautiful soul” at mid-life animates this remarkable breviary of the “inner workings” of a life lived bravely (“The beautiful plate I cracked in half as I wrapped it in tissue paper — // as if the worship of a thing might be the thing that breaks it”) in the face of the ...
As has been evidenced throughout the use of historical Bedlams (human zoos for the “normative” and curious), and through the ongoing popularity and criticism surrounding exploitative charity drives (such as those around the death of famous gay youth Matthew Shepard), and concerns about the corp...
Narrative textual criticism, unlike traditional philology, considers variant readings as important, in and of themselves, as part of the evolving, adapting, and "living" text of the New Testament. Finally, chapter four discusses the affinities between genomics/phylogenetics and current traditional ...
Francis, James.Adults as Children: Images of Childhood in the Ancient World and the New Testament. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2006. This book examines the use of the child and childhood as a metaphor across the New Testament. Primary attention is paid to Jesus’ use of these terms from...