Lynnette Wofford, Ph.D.
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Answered a Question in Literature
Comedy orginated in ancient Greek religious festivals dedicated to the wine god Dionysus. Originally, groups of young men would carry a large phallus and sing obscene songs to celebrate the god of... -
Answered a Question in Break, Break, Break
Tennyson uses external circumstance, and particularly portraits of nature, to create mood in his poetry. He is especially effective at invoking melancholy in his work through a vision of decay in... -
Answered a Question in Poetics
Because Plato was Aristotle's teacher, it is unlikely that works of Plato directly respond to Aristotle; rather, Aristotle's work was written in response to Plato. Both Aristotle and Plato shared a... -
Answered a Question in Mrs. Warren's Profession
Both plays are from the same period and use comic techniques hinging on issues of false identities. More importantly, both plays address the "woman question." For both Wilde and Shaw the issues of... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
Parody and paradox, despite superficial similarities in pronunciation, are unrelated concepts. In literature, parodies are literary works that imitate other works of literature for humorous... -
Answered a Question in The Rape of the Lock
The quotation is from Canto III lines 13-14 of Alexander Pope's mock epic poem, "The Rape of the Lock." "Rape" is used in the title in its original Latin sense meaning to "seize" or "plunder." For... -
Answered a Question in Literature
New Criticism is based on the notion that a poem has an inherent organic unity and can be read independent of context, as in I. A. Richards' experiments in practical criticism. Meaning is made in... -
Answered a Question in Essays
The answer above is inacccurate in a few details. The three entechnai pisteis are appeals from ethos and logos and by pathos. One does not appeal to the "ethos" of an audience. Intrinsic... -
Answered a Question in Essays
Refutation is both an argumentative strategy and one of the six parts of the classical oration. The classical oration, as described in Cicero's de Inventione and the pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad... -
Answered a Question in Out of the Silent Planet
Out of the Silent Planet was written by C. S. Lewis as a Christian allegory. Ransom, like Lewis himself, was a philologist who taught at Cambridge University. He functions as an "everyman"... -
Answered a Question in Pygmalion
Excellent answer above. Higgins, in many ways, resembles Shaw himself. He represents the tradition of science, which sees all people as equal, as against conventional society, in which people are... -
Answered a Question in Sylvia Plath
The "confessional" poets were a school including Ann Sexton, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath who were mid-twentieth century American poets who composed poems in free verse with... -
Answered a Question in Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler is one of several women in Ibsen's plays caught within a social system which gives them relatively little scope for action or creativity. The heroines of both "Hedda Gabler" and... -
Answered a Question in Literary Terms
Classical drama, according to Aristotle, started as exclusively choral, in performances known as "dithyrambs". The addition of individual actors was a later development. Choruses are used...
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