Instead, she studies the show using the tools of literary analysis, treating it as a text whose form provides meaning.
On the one hand, there is the energetic but diffuse hodgepodge, the result, perhaps, of an eager mind fussing with the newly discovered tools of literary culture.
The literary-contextual study of Socrates, like hermeneutics more generally, uses the tools of literary criticism typically interpreting one complete dialogue at a time; its European origins are traced to Heidegger and earlier to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.
Electric Literature was the first fiction magazine with an iPhone app, the first to tweet an entire story written for Twitter, and one of the first to embrace digital publishing as a tool in service of literary fiction.
THE chief tools of the literary critic, T.S. Eliot wrote, are analysis and comparison.
Although stylometry can chart stylistic similarities, it is not a useful tool for the analysis of literary influence.
In "The Divine Comedy" he does so, single-handedly forging a tool of expression that became the literary language of Italy.Dante's vernacular remains an exciting language for poets to engage with because it still feels, linguistically, within our reach.
An exciting development over the past few years is that many of the tools that scholars use to plumb the depths of literary usage are now publicly available online.
The world will not become simpler just because our ways of writing and reading do, and by succumbing to this abbreviated version of literary life we only lose another tool for understanding the world as it really is.
Modern stylistics uses the tools of formal linguistic analysis coupled with the methods of literary criticism; its goal is to try to isolate characteristic uses and functions of language and rhetoric rather than advance normative or prescriptive rules and patterns.
