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Walker, Jeffrey – College English, 1994
Examines the primary and not exclusively Aristotelian sources from which a more adequate concept of the enthymeme can be derived. Considers the relevance of that concept to the analysis of modern discourse. Analyzes works by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Roland Barthes as examples of enthymeming. (HB)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction, Higher Education

Long, Lisa A. – College English, 2002
Discusses two recent novels that employ techniques more familiar to science fiction than to historical fiction to probe questions of history and authenticity. Considers how these novels expose the way that those who attempt to bear witness to the history of slavery are ostracized, pathologized, and even institutionalized. (SG)
Descriptors: Black Literature, Civil Rights, Historical Interpretation, Literary Criticism

Anderson, Virginia – College English, 2000
Focuses on the paradoxical role played by exclusion in any attempt to create an inclusive space. Explores the nature of inclusion/exclusion dynamic in English Studies in general and more specifically in classrooms that use critical theory to address the need for social change. Concludes that the principle of exclusion is entangled with efforts at…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Critical Theory, English Instruction, Ethics
Kenney, Blair G. – College English, 1964
The wisdom of introducing college freshmen to poetry through destructive literary criticism--a negative assessment of Joyce Kilmer's "Trees" is the example here--is questioned. The underlying assumption that a student's taste may be formed by explaining literary standards to him, illustrated by examples of poor poetry, is subjected to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Critical Reading, English Instruction, Literary Criticism

Kraft, Quentin G. – College English, 1988
Discusses William Beatty Warner's "Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation," a study of Samuel Richardson's role as eighteenth-century critic and interpreter of his own novels. Examines the treatment of character by both Richardson and Warner, focusing on Richardson's humanist interpretation and Warner's anti-humanist…
Descriptors: Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Literary Criticism

Lanham, Richard – College English, 1986
Notes that the problem facing educators now is to make a single educational system from several isolated activities while at the same time creating a general theory of discourse that will include them all. Proposes a curriculum to solve that problem. (FL)
Descriptors: College English, Educational Theories, English Curriculum, English Instruction

Nist, Elizabeth A. – College English, 1984
Presents 11 of the more that 50 women whose works are known from the Elizabethan Age. (CRH)
Descriptors: Authors, Discourse Analysis, Females, Higher Education

Kamholtz, Jonathan Z.; Sheets, Robin A. – College English, 1984
Suggests women writers as alternatives to traditionally taught male writers, identifies women writers as representatives of parallel tradition and genres not usually studied in a survey, and discusses some of the best feminist scholarship and criticism. (MM)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Authors, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum

Lieberman, Marcia R. – College English, 1972
Descriptors: Acculturation, College Instruction, Cultural Traits, English Instruction

Parker, Sandra – College English, 1972
Discussing the structural and philosophic changes in higher education, the author feels that because of its academic purity, poetry may help to bring about a new humanism." (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Anthologies, Course Objectives, Educational Change, English Instruction

Bruffee, Kenneth A. – College English, 1971
Identifies--and labels as elegiac romance"--a group of 19th and 20th century American, English, and European novels in which a narrator relates the story of a heroic, questing figure to whom he is committed in attempting to overcome the effect of loss which results from" the hero's death. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Literary Criticism, Literary Genres, Narration

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

Penelope, Julia – College English, 1982
Excoriates those who resist attempts to remove sexism from English, singling out critic John Simon as particularly offensive. (JL)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns, Language Planning

Spector, Judith A. – College English, 1981
Notes changes in feminist criticism that have occurred and that must occur so that it maintains its legitimacy. Proposes changes that would firmly ground feminist criticism as a vital part of gender studies and literary criticism. (RL)
Descriptors: Females, Feminism, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology)

Rothschild, Jeffrey M. – College English, 1990
Discusses how narrators (distinct from authors) emerged in English prose works during the last decade of the sixteenth century. Reports that instances of the use of narrators can be found throughout the seventeenth century, but that it was another hundred years before the technique developed fully enough to constitute a recognizable narrative…
Descriptors: English Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Narration