LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Coleridge
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T. S. Eliot
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Allen Tate
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F. R. Leavis
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Detailed explanation-1: -objective correlative, literary theory first set forth by T.S. Eliot in the essay “Hamlet and His Problems” and published in The Sacred Wood (1920).
Detailed explanation-2: -T.S. Eliot used this phrase to describe “a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion” that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader (“Hamlet, ” 1919).
Detailed explanation-3: -: something (such as a situation or chain of events) that symbolizes or objectifies a particular emotion and that may be used in creative writing to evoke a desired emotional response in the reader.
Detailed explanation-4: -So a situation in a Shakespeare play must objectively suggest corresponding emotions in the audience, which they then experience thanks to the situation and events they are witnessing. The action of the play evokes or inspires these emotions within the play’s audience.
Detailed explanation-5: -An example of the objective correlative is the setting and mood of Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallaper.” In the story, a woman is confined by her husband to a room lined with ornate floral wallpaper.