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The Case for Cummings
Angebote / Angebote:
The Case for Cummings' shows how E.E. Cummings has
become
fixed in criticism due to a misreading of his work by
critics. Many
critics in the 1920s were hostile to Cummings,
forcing Cummings'
supporters to either defend or apologise for him.
Thus, in the
1920s pro-Cummingsian critics defined and fixed the
'battleground' - collectively collating Cummings'
'themes' - love,
spring, satire, individualism, and transcendence -
yet these areas
became the very source of attack from
anti-Cummingsian critics.
This investigation, utilizing the literary theories
of Derrida, Bakhtin,
Foucault, Bloom, and Cixous, among others, aims to
show how both
sides have misread Cummings' work and in doing so
sees a 'new'
Cummings emerge, a Cummings who appears less fixed in
criticism,
who is more complex and richer in scope than first
thought, and
whose work demands major re-evaluation.
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