jacob l. moreno gave the famous objective co relative theory.
jacob l. moreno gave the famous objective co relative theory.
who gave the famous objective co relative theory?
jacob l. moreno
the theory of the objective correlative as it relates to literature was largely developed through the writings of the poet and literary critic t.s. eliot, who is associated with the literary group called the new critics. helping define the objective correlative, eliot's essay "hamlet and his problems", republished in his book "the sacred wood: essays on poetry and criticism" discusses his view of shakespeare's incomplete development of hamlet's emotions in the play "hamlet". eliot uses lady macbeth's state of mind as an example of the successful objective correlative: "the artistic 'inevitability' lies in this complete adequacy of the external to the emotion….", as a contrast to hamlet. according to eliot, the feelings of hamlet are not sufficiently supported by the story and the other characters surrounding him. the objective correlative's purpose is to express the character's emotions by "showing" rather than "describing" feelings as discussed earlier by plato and referred to by peter barry in his book "beginning theory: an introduction to literary and cultural theory" as "...perhaps little more than the ancient distinction (first made by plato) between mimesis and diegesis…." (28). according to formalist critics, this action of creating an emotion through external factors and evidence linked together and thus forming an objective correlative should produce an author's detachment from the depicted character and unite the emotion of the literary work.
objective correlative
graff fara is best known for her work on the problem of vagueness, where she defends an interest-relative theory of "contextualism." in her most influential article, "shifting sands: an interest-relative theory of vagueness", she argues that the meanings of vague expressions render the truth conditions of utterances of sentences containing them sensitive to our interests. on her view, "interest relativity extends to all vague words. for instance, ‘child’ means a degree of immaturity that is significant to the speaker. since the interests of the speaker shifts over time, there is an opportunity for a shift in the extension of ‘child’."
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