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The Subjective Nature of Critical Interpretation
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Bleich, David – College English, 1975
The study of literary art and the study of ourselves are ultimately the same thing. (JH)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Formal Criticism, Impressionistic Criticism, Individual Psychology
Two Critical Attitudes: Quest for Certitude and Negative Capability
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Tsur, Reuven – College English, 1975
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Attitudes, Literary Criticism, Literature
Where Is Literature?
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Schwartz, Murray – College English, 1975
Between objectivity and subjectivity lies a third choice: the recreation of the relationships between self and literary structure. (JH)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Dreams, Experience, Identification (Psychology)
The Modes of Fiction: A Plot Morphology
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Tilley, E. Allen – College English, 1978
Organizes fiction by providing plot models for romances, high mimetic works, low mimetic works, and ironic works. (DD)
Descriptors: Fiction, Higher Education, Irony, Literary Criticism
"I Want to Be African": In Search of a Black Radical Tradition/African-American Vernacularized Paradigm for "Students' Right to Their Own Language," Critical Literacy, and "Class Politics"
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Kynard, Carmen – College English, 2007
By revisiting the work of the Black Caucus and the radical rhetorics connected to Black Power and the black radical tradition, in this essay the author hopes to rebuild a frame where the picture of an African-American-vernacularized paradigm for critical literacy and social justice can emerge. She revisits the twinning of "Black Power/Black…
Descriptors: African Americans, Models, Justice, Black Dialects
Problem-solving, Composing, and Liberal Education
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Larson, Richard L. – College English, 1972
Author proposes a way to view the act of composing, and hence the course in composition, that might help the course to serve the ends of liberal education better than, in the eyes of some, it is now doing. (Author/RY)
Descriptors: General Education, Literary Criticism, Models, Problem Solving
On Not Teaching Orwell
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McNelly, Cleo – College English, 1977
A critical analysis of the social and rhetorical flaws in the writings of George Orwell. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Models, Teaching Methods
Invention Once More: A Role for Rhetorical Analysis
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Larson, Richard L. – College English, 1971
Advocates students' analysis of professionally written essays to determine how those authors represent their minds moving, pulling together, organizing, and extending" the sense data of personal experience. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Creative Expression, Essays, Literary Criticism
Books: Making Judgments: Criticism Past, Present, and Future.
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Cain, William E. – College English, 1980
Considers the state of the art of literary criticism; evaluates and compares seven books of criticism. (RL)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Critical Reading, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
The Cognitive Paradigm in Literary Studies.
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Bizup, Joseph M.; Kintgen, Eugene R. – College English, 1993
Discusses the relationship that exists between the study of cognitive science and literary studies. Outlines contributions to the emerging dialog between these two fields. Suggests that a closer alliance between the two fields might enhance both disciplines. (HB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Educational Philosophy, English Instruction
What Does It Mean to Be Able to Write? The Question of Writing in the Discourses of Literature and Composition.
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Miller, Susan – College English, 1983
Proposes, in prose and in charts, a theory of writing intended to unite the fields of composition studies and literature. (JL)
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Higher Education, Integrated Activities