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The questions, exercises, and assignments on these pages are designed to guide students' reading ... more The questions, exercises, and assignments on these pages are designed to guide students' reading of the literary work and to provide suggestions for exploring the implications of the story through discussions, research, and writing. Most of the items can be handled individually, but small group and whole class discussions will enhance comprehension. The Response Journal should provide students with a means, first, for recording their ideas, feelings, and concerns, and then for reflecting those responses in their writing assignments and class discussions. These sheets may be duplicated, but teachers should select and modify items according to the needs and abilities of their students.
The traditional attribution of On Sublimity to the third-century critic Cassius Longinus has been... more The traditional attribution of On Sublimity to the third-century critic Cassius Longinus has been rejected by most scholars since the early nineteenth century. The arguments against a third-century date are examined and shown to be unfounded. It is argued that the interest in sublimity and a number of aspects of the treatise's vocabulary show distinctive points of contact with the evidence for Cassius Longinus, and with authors influenced by him. There is therefore a balance of probability in favour of the traditional attribution. 5 The potential importance of the later Platonists for the problem was stressed by Luck 1967, 99, 112. 6 IEph. 426: see Jones 1980, 373f.; examples could be added indefinitely. 7 A scholion ad loc. notes that Dionysius had written on this topic (perˆ sunqšsewj oegraye DionÚsioj). In the same way, references in the pseudo-Dionysian Art of Rhetoric to the author's On Imitation (364.24, prompted the attribution to Dionysius of Halicarnassus (see the scholion to 359.2, and p. xxii of the editors' introduction). 8 To the examples collected in Heath 1998a, 89f. (the paper goes on to question the authorship of the treatise traditionally attributed to Apsines) one might add Quint. 3.5.14, on texts attributed to Hermagoras.
The paper aims at exploring salient features of Progressive Movement in Urdu literature and takin... more The paper aims at exploring salient features of Progressive Movement in Urdu literature and taking into account points of comparison with Modernism in Europe. The paper explores evolution of Progressive Movement over the years and traces influence of European Modernism on it. Thesis statement: The Progressive Movement in Urdu literature was tremendously influenced by European Modernism.
PoemHunter.Com -The World's Poetry Archive www.PoemHunter.com -The World's Poetry Archive 2
The questions, exercises, and assignments on these pages are designed to guide students' reading ... more The questions, exercises, and assignments on these pages are designed to guide students' reading of the literary work and to provide suggestions for exploring the implications of the story through discussions, research, and writing. Most of the items can be handled individually, but small group and whole class discussions will enhance comprehension. The Response Journal should provide students with a means, first, for recording their ideas, feelings, and concerns, and then for reflecting those responses in their writing assignments and class discussions. These sheets may be duplicated, but teachers should select and modify items according to the needs and abilities of their students.
The traditional attribution of On Sublimity to the third-century critic Cassius Longinus has been... more The traditional attribution of On Sublimity to the third-century critic Cassius Longinus has been rejected by most scholars since the early nineteenth century. The arguments against a third-century date are examined and shown to be unfounded. It is argued that the interest in sublimity and a number of aspects of the treatise's vocabulary show distinctive points of contact with the evidence for Cassius Longinus, and with authors influenced by him. There is therefore a balance of probability in favour of the traditional attribution. 5 The potential importance of the later Platonists for the problem was stressed by Luck 1967, 99, 112. 6 IEph. 426: see Jones 1980, 373f.; examples could be added indefinitely. 7 A scholion ad loc. notes that Dionysius had written on this topic (perˆ sunqšsewj oegraye DionÚsioj). In the same way, references in the pseudo-Dionysian Art of Rhetoric to the author's On Imitation (364.24, prompted the attribution to Dionysius of Halicarnassus (see the scholion to 359.2, and p. xxii of the editors' introduction). 8 To the examples collected in Heath 1998a, 89f. (the paper goes on to question the authorship of the treatise traditionally attributed to Apsines) one might add Quint. 3.5.14, on texts attributed to Hermagoras.
The paper aims at exploring salient features of Progressive Movement in Urdu literature and takin... more The paper aims at exploring salient features of Progressive Movement in Urdu literature and taking into account points of comparison with Modernism in Europe. The paper explores evolution of Progressive Movement over the years and traces influence of European Modernism on it. Thesis statement: The Progressive Movement in Urdu literature was tremendously influenced by European Modernism.