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Word: poetics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patience. It's choppy--long descriptions interspersed with telegraphic bits of interior monologue and haphazard conversation. She switches perspectives to let Rosa explain how she sees herself and how she believes others see her. The reader has to fit it all together, compose a life out of these poetic fragments...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Marching Away from Pretoria | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...Practical Criticism," Richards developed a theory of poetic meaning and understanding based on poem critiques by students who did not know whose work they were discussing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I. A. Richards, Literary Critic, Dies at 86 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

PERHAPS IT IS FITING that two other members of the junta, Violetta and Joaquin Chamarro, are the children of the President who fell from power shortly before Anastasio Somoza's Debayle's father made his meteoric rise. But poetic justice will not sustain their newgovernment. If they succeed in their dream of becoming a social democracy, the U.S. will find it must account for its dealings there in the future. If not, the coalition could dissolve into another civil...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Simple Twist of Face | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

...grand prize for him, and he soon had all the publicity and bookings a young art ist needs. As this release shows, he has all the more fundamental qualities a young artist needs too: exuberant virtuosity, a formidable command of pianistic sonorities and lots of sensitive, poetic feeling. -Christopher Porterfield

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds in a Summer Groove | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...theory of natural selection, just as there will always be a shadowy web surrounding the real Charles Darwin," writes Eiseley. But as anyone who reads his book will realize, Eiseley has come closer than anyone else to solving that mystery and breaking that web. In graceful, occasionally poetic prose, he shows how Darwin, who was initially timid about advancing his theory, was almost beaten into print by Alfred Russel Wallace, a younger, all but unknown researcher. After discussion, the two agreed to announce their theory simultaneously. Eiseley also outlines Darwin's relationship with Charles Lyell, whose research established modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Debt Discharged | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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