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Friedman, Susan – College English, 1975
Descriptors: Biographies, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Literary History
Bigelow, Gordon E. – College English, 1961
Although no set of principles can apply uniformly to all existentialists, certain basic characteristics of existentialism are central to both the nonreligious writers like Sartre and Camus and the theistic existentialists like Kierkegaard, Maritain, Marcel, Tillich, Berdyaev, and Buber. These characteristics are (1) an insistence that human life…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Humanities, Literary Criticism, Literature

Carkeet, David – College English, 1976
Literary critical prose is a specialized, artifical mode of discourse, and it is a poor model for students trying to learn to write well. (JH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Literary Criticism

Huntington, John – College English, 1975
Science fiction is satisfying, not because it projects the future, but because it helps the reader deal with the present. (JH)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Fiction, Futures (of Society), Higher Education

McCracken, Nancy – College English, 1975
We should train our students to apply the tools of literary analysis to political language.
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Audiences, Communication (Thought Transfer), English Instruction

Hilbert, Betsy – College English, 1986
Looks at Melville's narrative construction of "onion-like...layers of truth" that combine romance and textbook, presents critics' discussion and scholars' treatment of the cetological information present in the text, offers an explanation for the lack of recognition due to the nonfictional parts of "Moby Dick." (JK)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices

Scholes, Robert – College English, 1984
Urges the use of new developments in structuralist and poststructuralist theory as the basis for a new practice in the teaching of composition. (CRH)
Descriptors: College English, Discourse Analysis, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories

Rouse, John – College English, 1983
Argues that the teaching method instructors use to present poetry--direct/indirect, analytic/subjective, or reader focused/text focused--is influenced by the kind of relationship they wish to establish with the students. (MM)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Literary Criticism

Markman, Roberta Hoffman – College English, 1983
Advocates teaching the fairy tale as a way to introduce students to the complex and subtle processes of literature and to their own creative activity. (JL)
Descriptors: Creativity, Fairy Tales, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement

Miller, J. Wesley – College English, 1982
Reports the results of a personally conducted survey on graduate programs in English that ranged from amusing to appalling. (JL)
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Employment Opportunities, English Departments, Graduate Study

Scott, Patrick G. – College English, 1980
Defends the combination of literature and writing instruction, offering a special course at the University of South Carolina as an example of the way intensive work in composition can be combined with an old-fashioned literary survey. (RL)
Descriptors: College English, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Higher Education

Morgan, Stacy I. – College English, 2001
Discusses how both novels share key thematic elements pertaining to the experiences of migrants from rural Appalachia to multiethnic industrial centers of the urban north. Notes that a focus on the authors' handling of material culture helps to point one with increased clarity and precision to the writerly method by which Attaway and Arnow convey…
Descriptors: Characterization, Cultural Differences, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology)
Jordan, Jay – College English, 2005
After summarizing typical criticisms of multicultural composition readers, the author draws on work in "New Literacy Studies" to point toward composition pedagogies that encourage multicultural interactions beyond selections in assigned readers. The author suggests that what is ultimately needed is a productive critical frame not only for refining…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Higher Education, Multicultural Education, Multicultural Textbooks

Bevis, William – College English, 1974
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, Bibliographies, Book Reviews

Weitzel, Roy L. – College English, 1975
Creative writing assignments are described which prepare students better to apprehend and appreciate Shakespeare's art.
Descriptors: Audiences, Communication (Thought Transfer), Creativity, Drama