Comments on: Biography http://tarvinlit.com/wordpress William Tarvin's Literary Blog Mon, 03 Feb 2014 03:32:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Dr. William Tarvin http://tarvinlit.com/wordpress/biography/comment-page-1/#comment-13472 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:04:43 +0000 http://tarvinlit.com/wordpress/?page_id=7#comment-13472 Dear Sara,
My British literature Handouts which deal with literary theory are Coleridge, “Biographia”; Dryden, “An Essay”; Eliot, “Tradition”; Johnson, “Preface”; Keats, “Letters”; Keats, “Ode on a”; Pope, “An Essay on Criticism”: Shakespeare, “Shakespeareean Tragedy”; Shelley, “A Defence”; Sidney, “An Apology”; Woolf, “Shakespeare’s”; and Wordsworth, “Preface.”
My American Literature handouts which deal with literary theory are Brooks, “Keats’s”: Frye, “Archetypes”; and Ransom, “Criticism.”
All of these discuss the fours theoretical approaches which a literary critic may use: (1) mimetic approach, which studies how well the literary work imitates the real world; (2) affective approach, which studies the effect of a work on a reader; (3) objective or structural approach, which studies the literary work as a literary work (its theme, characters, plot, etc.); and (4) expressive approach, which studies the ways an author’s life and beliefs are expressed in his/her poem, novel, or short story.

Thank you for your question. I hope my answer is helpful.

Best wishes,
Dr. Tarvin

]]> By: Sara http://tarvinlit.com/wordpress/biography/comment-page-1/#comment-13289 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:45:50 +0000 http://tarvinlit.com/wordpress/?page_id=7#comment-13289 Hello, sir. would it be possible for you to put some handouts discussing different literary theories? Thank you.

]]> By: Dr. William Tarvin http://tarvinlit.com/wordpress/biography/comment-page-1/#comment-6232 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:24:54 +0000 http://tarvinlit.com/wordpress/?page_id=7#comment-6232 Dear Khalid,

Thank you for the kind comments about me. For an old, retired professor, it is always delightful to know that his teaching of literature was appreciated and that he is still remembered.
I enjoyed my years teching in Abha, Saudi Arabia, and carry many wonderful memories of the experience.
I hope that you find my website helpful.

With fondest regards,

Dr. Tarvin

]]> By: Khalid Alshehri http://tarvinlit.com/wordpress/biography/comment-page-1/#comment-6193 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:03:54 +0000 http://tarvinlit.com/wordpress/?page_id=7#comment-6193 Dear Professor William Tarvin,

I was in your classes in 1994, 1995 and 1996 in King Saud University.
I am thankful for you. You really were a significant figure in my
whole life.

Your student

Khalid

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