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Van Noate, Judith, Comp. – 1990
This handout is a guide to library resources in the J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte for the criticism of poetry. The guide enables the reader to find sources of criticism on poetry, including critical articles and essays about single poems, or writings on the work of a single author. The guide's sections…
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, Higher Education, Library Guides

Jago, David – College English, 1974
The polarities in the political activities of twentieth-century British homosexuals correspond to the polarities of the literary scene. (JH)
Descriptors: Activism, Antisocial Behavior, Authors, Boarding Schools
West, Paul, Ed. – 1963
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by G. Wilson Knight, Bernard Blackstone, Mario Praz, Paul West, Guy Steffan, F. R. Leavis, W. W. Robson, Helen Gardner, George M. Ridenour, Edmund Wilson, Gilbert Highet, Bertrand Russell, and John Wain--all dealing with the…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, English Literature, Higher Education
Watt, Ian, Ed. – 1963
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Edmund Wilson, Ian Watt, Alan D. McKillop, Reuben A. Brower, Marvin Mudrick, Mark Schorer, Arnold Kettle, Lionel Trilling, Kingsley Amis, Andrew H. Wright, Donald J. Greene, and D. W.…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, English Literature, Higher Education
Paulson, Ronald, Ed. – 1962
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Ronald Paulson, A. R. Humphreys, Winfield H. Rogers, Ian Watt, Maynard Mack, Mark Spilka, Aurelien Digeon, Andre Gide, Arnold Kettle, John Middleton Murry, William Empson, George Sherburn, and John S. Coolidge--all…
Descriptors: Authors, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature

Mills, Alice – Children's Literature in Education, 1986
Compares two illustrated retellings of the Anglo-Saxon epic "Beowulf" that show how the modern approach to myth has evolved over the past 20 years. (HOD)
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Comparative Analysis, Illustrations

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
Van Noate, Judith, Comp. – 1993
This handout is a guide to library resources in the J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, intended to help students find sources of criticism on Modern British Literature (long fiction, short fiction, poetry, and drama). The guide explains important reference sources in the Atkins library reference collection and…
Descriptors: Authors, College Libraries, English Literature, Higher Education
Haefner, Joel – 1992
Many compositionists correctly charge Romanticism with conveying the iconography of the solitary writer and with embedding that image in modern ideology. There can be little doubt that numerous Romantic texts continue to exalt and signify the concept of the lonely genius and the self-contained text. Romantic masterpieces have contributed to the…
Descriptors: Authors, Collaborative Writing, Cooperative Learning, English Literature
Spilka, Mark, Ed. – 1963
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Dorothy Van Ghent, Marvin Mudrick, Mark Schorer, Harry T. Moore, Julian Moynahan, Monroe Engel, Graham Hough, Mark Spilka, W. D. Snodgrass, V. de S. Pinto, Arthur E. Waterman, Richard Foster, and Raymond Williams--all…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, English Literature, Essays
Swisher, Clarice, Ed. – 1996
Designed for young adults, this book on William Shakespeare's tragedies is one of an anthology series providing accessible resources for students researching great literary lives and works. Contributing writers' essays in the book are taken from a wide variety of sources and are edited to accommodate the reading and comprehension levels of young…
Descriptors: Authors, Classics (Literature), English Literature, Literary Criticism
Ippolito, Maria F.; Tweney, Ryan D. – 1997
This paper briefly explores the related enterprises that assisted Virginia Woolf in her effort to re-form the English novel to include, not only the deeds, but the thoughts of her characters. Among these enterprises were Woolf's diaries, which she utilized to practice writing, work out her writing philosophy, and collect observations which would…
Descriptors: Authors, Cognitive Development, Diaries, English Literature
Roberts, Leonard H. – 1997
This paper describes the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneer feminist, author, and educator in 18th century England and how the influences of rational education caused her to be an advocate of women's education beyond social deportment and menial activities. Wollstonecraft believed that education should be built on strengthening a women's…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Authors, English Literature, Females
Van Noate, Judith, Comp. – 1990
This handout is a guide to library resources in the J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, for the study of the 19th-century English authors Branwell, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Bronte. The guide is intended to help readers find resources in the Atkins library for biographical and critical material on the Brontes.…
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, Higher Education, Library Guides
Harbage, Alfred, Ed. – 1964
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Alfred Harbage, H. B. Charlton, Willard Farnham, H. T. Price, Donald A. Stauffer, Brents Stirling, Maynard Mack, Helen Gardner, C. S. Lewis, Alvin Kernan, Bernard Spivack, L. C. Knights, Francis Fergusson, G. Wilson…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Drama, English Instruction