
Shylock's speech forces the audience to confront their own prejudice
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Shylock's speech forces the audience to confront their own prejudice
Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' asks
Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' questions if marginalized voices can be heard within dominant discourse
New Criticism
New Criticism focused on the poem as an autonomous object
Dickinson's dashes do
Dickinson's dashes fracture syntax to mirror the fluidity of thought
Nabokov's Lolita forces the reader to confront
Nabokov's Lolita forces the reader to confront seductive prose in the service of a monster's self-justification
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Gertrude Stein's famous quote "A rose is a rose is a rose" is a poetic expression of the law of identity
Celan's 'Death Fugue' does
Celan's 'Death Fugue' poetically captures the Holocaust's horrors through the oppressors' linguistic framework
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