Romanticism is a literary attitude and an artistic evolution that surfaced towards the end of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century with the publication of the Preface to The Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1790. Romanticism as a movement is in odds to the earlier decorative literary rules of…
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The Balance of Contraries
“… the connections are seen as active, alive, so that all manifestations of desire, all relations of production, all ‘ghosts of all generations’ interact with and shape one another so that every aspect of human reality bears the overdetermined traces of all the others…” (178, Gross) In his article titled Teaching, Dialectical Vision, and Blake’s…
Read MoreThe Blind Banker: Cultural and Critical Analysis
“Sometimes you need to look hard at something to see its value.” These lines started the first scene of the second episode of the TV phenomenon Sherlock. The story, constructed around the killing of three people by a Chinese smuggler gang, focuses on yet another adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The episode, in…
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