Thing theory is particularly well suited to the study of modernism, due to the materialist preoccupations of modernist poets such as William Carlos Williams, who declared that there should be " No ideas but in things " or T . S . Eliot's idea of the objective correlative.
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The bulge-- the strange rectangular box visible between the president's shoulder blades in the first debate-- has set off so much frenzied speculation on the Internet that it has become what literary critics call an objective correlative, or an object that evokes large emotions and ideas.
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T . S . Eliot thinking Hamlet an " artistic failure " since Shakespeare failed to find his " objective correlative "; various 17th-and 18th-century writers who loathed King Lear for its pessimism, and even tacked on a happy ending ( Nahum Tate, for example ).
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The Chevrolet El Camino _ half car, half pickup _ that Harry Dean Stanton drives from California to Texas in the 1983 Wim Wenders film " Paris, Texas " is close to the perfect objective correlative of the existential country-and-western character he plays in the movie.
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In " Historial de un libro ", he states that at this time he was trying to find an objective correlative for what he was experiencing-one of the many indications of the influence of TS Eliot on his work, although this is a rationalisation after the fact because he had yet to read Eliot.
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If Viola's depictions of emotional states with no objective correlative emotional states for which the viewer has no external object or event to understand them by are one feature of many of his works, another, which has come to the forefront, is his reference to medieval and St . Catherine of Siena Praying ".
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He beefs up Ravenal's courtship of Magnolia by including a song the authors wrote for the 1936 movie version, " I Have the Room Above, " staging it in a facsimile of the number as filmed, as Ravenal fishes up a piece of Magnolia's drying laundry and pleads his case to this objective correlative of his love.
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Sahityadrpana's definition of poetry " vakyam rasatmakam kavyam " ( any composition which gives tasteful pleasure is poetry ) has been cited most frequently by modern critics while defining poetry . " Rasa ", a complex concept used in Sanskrit aesthetics, from first century onwards, is conceptually fairly similar to what T . S . Eliot, centuries later, called objective correlative.
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The exhibition is described as " the first in Feininger s native country in more than forty-five years, and the first ever to include the full breadth of his art " and as " accompanied by a richly illustrated monograph with a feature essay that provides a broad overview of Feininger s career . . . " Many critics have argued that the artist's work was at its most mature around 1910 in works in which the power of Feininger as illustrator balance his abstract side; however, we have to consider the possibility that Feininger used cubism as a more artistically succinct tool to establish his version of the concept known as the objective correlative.
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In the national online journal, " Lambda Literary ", Tony Leuzzi writes, " " Moonman " traces Snider s fluid movement from one idiom to another : restrained poems in traditional forms; intellectual utterances that demonstrate his awareness of Western and Eastern philosophical systems; chatty, casual poems that respond to aspects of popular culture; and, most impressively, concise and memorable imagist verse . . . . [ In " Edwin : A Character in Poems " ] the persona functions as an effective objective correlative whose dual obsessions with thought and body echo a whole generation of gay men . . . . [ Other poems ] are lit with a delirious, visionary glow " ."
