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Toward a Rhetorical Reader-Response Criticism: The Difficult, the Stubborn, and the Ending of Beloved
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This article is published in Modern Fiction Studies.The article was published on 1993-01-01. It has received 26 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rhetorical question & Reader-response criticism.read more
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.
Trudier Harris,Toni Morrison +1 more
TL;DR: Morrison as mentioned in this paper argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic, and argues that individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
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Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text.
TL;DR: In this paper, Comparative American Identities maps out a dynamic terrain of "New World" cultural identities, questions and problems, and attempts to locate "America" as a cultural and historical site of plurality and division.
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
TL;DR: Morrison as discussed by the authors argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic, and argues that individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
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Validity in Interpretation
TL;DR: Hirsch as discussed by the authors provides a comprehensive account of hermeneutic theory to appear in English and the first systematic presentation of the principles of valid interpretation in any language, and argues that a valid interpretation is not necessarily a correct one, but one which is more probably than any other on the basis of existing evidence.
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Critical terms for literary study
TL;DR: McLaughlin this article discusses the role of representation in literature as writing and the importance of representation as a means of expressing the meaning of words in the form of figurative language.