Changing Interpretations Over Time: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

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Our critical perspectives thus far have taken us to 1945 - which you may conceive of as a significant year in the twentieth century.

Now it is time to explore some more contemporary criticism in the second half of the twentieth century, and right up to today. I have included a list below to get you started - it is by no means exhaustive. (There are even some women on the list who have some opinions. Just saying.)

The idea is to pick one and read a whole essay -  rather than just a few paragraphs as we have done up until now - but then to do that selective job of identifying a few hundred words to share. And, of course, you aren't limited to these names if you come across something interesting as you are searching.

Harold Goddard
Harry Levin
L. C. Knight
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Michael Long
Helen Gardner
Patrick Crutwell
Marilyn French
Leonard Tennenhouse
Janet Adelman
Elaine Showalter
David P Gontar
Harold Bloom


Happy reading!

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  1. AnonymousJuly 15, 2020 at 2:34 AM

    Hi guys, this is a really great link looking at what we have looked at so far in terms of critical perspectives. It may be worth having a brief scroll over this as it proves an interesting insight into groups of perspectives-

    https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/hamlet-literary-criticism/

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