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Gloriæ Dei Cantores: James Weldon Johnson: God's Trombones

by C. Michael Bailey
In literature, the New Criticism" focused on the structure and meaning of a given text, and that these were intimately connected and should not be analyzed separately. Also, texts should be analyzed without regard to the author, era, or circumstances of the text. Clinically, this may be all well and good, but this approach to the analysis of anything is at the expense of the rich loam of experience surrounding art. That is why I will not use the New ...
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