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...Summarize and evaluate, giving specific textual references, a book you read this summer. Be sure to include author and title. Make clear its relation to this course, to the literature of the period, to the movie. Show how its theme is reinforced by its structure...
Poirier, who is currently on sabbatical, was best known at Harvard for teaching Humanities 6, an introduction to literature emphasizing close textual analysis. His other courses included a survey of modern American fiction and a study of Joyce, Faulkner and Lawrence. Poirier has been at Harvard since...
...continues, "can present certain kinds of information with greater precision than a textual record." Quoting the poet and traveller James Elroy Flecker, he reminds us that in a map the historian will find...
...classes Pennington, a teaching fellow, uses the "new critic" method of intensive textual analysis. He strongly opposes the "precious flower" approach to literature which deals in general appreciation and fears that intensive analysis destroys the beauty of a work...
...first Christian to make a compilation of authentic gospels and epistles into a single testament that excluded the many apocryphal writings about Christ. Marcion's version of the scriptural canon was rejected by the church, but he nonetheless deserves to be remembered as the founder of New Testament textual criticism...