Literature and Literary Criticism

The following passage is from Frank McCourt s 1996 memoir Angela s Ashes. 

The author describes what it was like to go to school as a young boy. 

The passage suggests that the author goes to school 

The author quotes his school masters saying Ye have no right to raise your hands to a better class of people so ye don t (lines 19-20) in order to 

In this excerpt from Toni Morrison s 1970 novel The Bluest Eye, Pauline tries 

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Within this system, literary journals played a predominant role, particularly the thick journals . Typical Russian periodicals, these latter were characterized by their volume and by the eclecticism of the themes covered, and from the time of Nikolai Karamzin had dominated the journalistic market. After a brief disruption of the literature-centric structure of culture beginning in 1905, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution restored this structure, and thick journals regained their leading role. For this reason, it is mainly through the development of literary journals, which always prismatically refracted the events of every external cultural and political movement, that we shall try to depict the literary arena of the twentieth century. In their pages theoretical debates developed, the process of creating a new writer was completed, and a new literature and literary criticism arose. 

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