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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greater than ours, less, or roughly the same." They theory of symbols works on the basic principle of "polysemous meaning" in works. The theory of myths expands on Frye's basic premise in Fearful Symmetry. And generic criticism (using terms like drama, epic. and lyric) explains works in the context of "conditions established between the poet and his public," how literary works "are ideally presented...
...departments should be cautious that certain corporations don't distort their focus. He says it would be unfortunate if the East Asian Studies Center grew where corporations giving money to it are involved and not in other areas. "You can't be ethnocentric, you must study the whole context," Goldman says. "It would be awkward to set up a study center just for Kuwaiti studies...
...American Women (associate editor Janet Wilson James formally joined her husband Edward T. James '38 after their children had entered nursery school) found that they could not simply detail the lives of their subjects. The lack of readily available data often hampered them, but the absence of a clear context for women's activities defined the more serious problem of interpreting these women's achievements. Thus, as the biographies of individual women took shape, so did an overview of certain aspects of American women's history. This background information is set out in the dictionary's introduction, which offers...
Rosenblum has used neither gesture nor context to give meaning to his photographs: stripped of surface drama, their strength has to come from a sort of photographic "impression," a symbolic "equivalence" inherent in the forms of the picture. Rosenblum has tried to "document" the beauty of life, more than he has its particulars...
...INTEREST of musical merit, Brahms's Fourth Symphony comprised the second half of the program. Flaws of intonation and ensemble marred the HRO's performance of this difficult standard work. But these were easily forgiven in the context of the HRO's energetic and enthusiastic playing. Dr. Yannatos never let the playing degenerate into a well-intentioned shambles, but firmly structured this potentially unwieldy masterpiece...