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Stern, Frederick C. – College English, 1974
The white critic's role is to demonstrate the intertwining of Western and African elements in black literature. (JH)
Descriptors: Black Literature, Black Power, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices

Stewart, Donald C. – College English, 1977
Examines 599 representative preliminary questions used by English Departments at 13 American universities and also examines the general rhetorical structure of 109 articles on literary criticism in 19 scholarly magazines. (DD)
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Educational Research, English Departments

Bruffee, Kenneth A. – College English, 1986
Presents an introduction to social construction and offers a bibliographical guide to such texts. Recommends general and community specific accounts, defines social constructionist thought in literary criticism and literary history, mentions composition studies, and comments on the impact of social construction in education. (JK)
Descriptors: College English, Educational Theories, English Instruction, Higher Education

College English, 1988
Includes a comment by Ann Berthoff on Ross Winterowd's "The Purification of Literature and Rhetoric," with a response by Winterowd. Also includes Jeanie C. Crain's comment on "The Wyoming Conference Resolution: Opposing Unfair Salaries and Working Conditions for Post-Secondary Teachers of Writing." (MM)
Descriptors: English Departments, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literary History

Porter, Jeffrey – College English, 1987
Shows how the enthymeme can organize a reader's participation in the text, specifically, George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant." (SRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis, Freshman Composition

Reither, James A. – College English, 1985
Raises questions about process research in writing. Points out the need to broaden the concept of what happens when people write and the need to press some questions about processes involved in coming to know generally. (EL)
Descriptors: College English, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Higher Education

Miller, Keith D. – College English, 1986
Examines features of and sources for the discourse of Martin Luther King, Jr., as they relate to the language and assumptions favored by his listeners and readers in an effort to understand how speakers and writers can successfully argue from premises that audiences accept. Indicates how an understanding of King can help in composition…
Descriptors: College English, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education

Rygiel, Dennis – College English, 1984
Traces the lack of rhetorical and stylistic criticism of twentieth-century English nonfiction both to a heightening of the traditionally low status accorded to nonfiction created by massive technical and scientific change and to its very recentness and claims that the lack of criticism calls into question generalizations about modern prose on…
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Essays, Higher Education

Kinney, Arthur F. – College English, 1970
Describes how a bibliographic methods course, retitled The English Literary Profession," is being taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (SW)
Descriptors: Course Content, English Instruction, Graduate Study, Literary Criticism

Ceci, Louis G. – College English, 1983
Describes and suggests the significance of syntactic imagery, poetic effects created through expressive grammatical structures. (MM)
Descriptors: College English, Deep Structure, Grammar, Imagery

Jarraway, David R. – College English, 2002
Incites inquiry as to how modern American literature reflects on the problem of identity. Spotlights the contribution to modern American writing by Wallace Thurman's "Harlem" fiction. Endeavors to link a racial imperative to a sexual imperative by means of a current theoretical discourse surrounding notions of city and community life.…
Descriptors: Community Role, Cultural Differences, Fiction, Higher Education

Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth – College English, 1995
Focuses on the resonance and power of the Madonna, or the Virgin Mary, in literature and culture. Argues that the Madonna represents womanhood and feminism. Describes how the multiple readings of "The Scarlet Letter" charted one professor's changing relationship over 10 years with the Jesuit institution where she taught. (HB)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Feminism, Higher Education

Brown, Ted – College English, 1993
Examines over 500 job rejection letters received by a single English professorial job candidate over a period of 9 years. Analyzes shortcomings and strengths. Offers suggestions for composing these letters. (HB)
Descriptors: College Faculty, English Departments, English Instruction, Higher Education

Fetterley, Judith – College English, 1994
Discusses the concepts of "American" and "unAmerican" in terms of national literature of the United States. Provides a critique of the way the literary canon of America is constructed and taught. Describes as treasonous and "unAmerican" much writing by women, as exemplified by the works of literary regionalists in the…
Descriptors: Authors, Culture Conflict, Educational Trends, English Curriculum

Jackson, Blyden – College English, 1974
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Black History, Black Literature