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Mastropaolo, Marie; Dean, Janet – 1971
A course putting emphasis on the enjoyment of poetry is presented. It includes an introduction to poetic language and a study of various types of poetry, such as the lyric and the narrative. Performance objectives include: (1) The student will write an original, personal definition of the form of poetry; (2) The student will define a list of terms…
Descriptors: Authors, Blacks, Course Content, English Literature
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Elliott, Ward E. Y.; Valenza, Robert J. – Computers and the Humanities, 1996
Applies 51 stylometric computer tests of Shakespeare play authorship and 14 of play authorship, developed by the Shakespeare Clinic, to 37 "true Shakespeares," 27 plays of the Shakespeare Apocrypha, and to several poems of unknown authorship. Finds that no claimant, and none of the apocryphal plays or poems, matched Shakespeare. (DSK)
Descriptors: Authors, Computational Linguistics, Computer Uses in Education, Content Analysis
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Preen, David – English in Education, 1998
States that Great Britain's National Curriculum pre-20th century list of prescribed authors is overloaded with unrealistic choices. Reports on a small-scale survey of actual choices made by teachers from this list. Calls for further research. Discusses teaching treatments of actual texts and makes a case for recognizing the work of the poet John…
Descriptors: Authors, British National Curriculum, Classics (Literature), English Literature
Bracken, James K. – 1998
This work identifies, describes, and evaluates the most important and useful reference materials based on British and North American authors and their writings. Designed to serve the needs of literary researchers of all degrees of sophistication, this book offers modern researchers and students of English literature a thorough review of reference…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Authors, English Literature, Information Sources
Gilliard, Fred – 1977
This booklet, containing eight instructional modules on works by major British writers, can be used either within a lower-level literature course for non-English majors or in a survey course for English majors. The first four modules focus on works from the early English period through the Elizabethan Age: "Beowulf,""Sir Gawain and the Green…
Descriptors: Authors, Drama, English Instruction, English Literature
Rees, David – 1980
The purposes of this collection of 15 essays on specific works of fiction for children and adolescents are threefold: to explore some of the similarities and differences in fiction for children in England and the United States; to point out some of the qualities of American literature that are of particular interest to children in England and to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Childrens Literature, Cross Cultural Studies
Guerard, Albert J., Ed. – 1963
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Albert Guerard, Donald Davidson, Morton Dauwen Zabel, D. H. Lawrence, John Hollowan, Dorothy Van Ghent, John Paterson, A. Alvarez, Delmore Schwartz, W. H. Auden, David Perkins, and Samuel Hynes--all dealing with the…
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
Townsend, John Rowe – 1971
This is an introduction to the work of 19 contemporary English-language writers for children. It consists of critical essays on the works of Joan Aiken, L. M. Boston, H. F. Brinsmead, John Christopher, Helen Cresswell, Meindert DeJong, Eleanor Estes, Paula Fox, Leon Garfield, Alan Garner, Madeleine L'Engle, William Mayne, Andre Norton, Scott…
Descriptors: Australian Literature, Authors, Biographies, Books
Speirs, John – 1971
This book considers the poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who foreshadowed the imaginative development of the novel - its growth in introspectiveness, interest in the individual and psychological insight, in fulness, and in an exploratory-creative use of language. These are found principally in the work of Dickens, George Eliot,…
Descriptors: Authors, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, English Neoclassic Literary Period
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Thumboo, Edwin – World Englishes: Journal of English as an International and Intranational Language, 1985
Discusses the issue of the multiple literary traditions of English writers in non-Anglo-Saxon areas such as India, Africa, and the West Indies, each of which is marked by particular linguistic, literary and aesthetic preoccupations that constitute a literary ecology. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Authors, Cultural Pluralism, Ecology
London, Bette – 1999
This book, the first full-length treatment of women's literary partnerships, goes to the heart of issues surrounding authorial identity. Questions the book addresses are: What is an author? Which forms of authorship are sanctioned and which forms marginalized? and Which of these forms have particularly attracted women? Such questions are central…
Descriptors: Authors, Cultural Context, English Literature, Females
Newbrook, Mark – 1990
Most studies of dialects in English-language literature have focused on works of the nineteenth century or earlier. However, modern literature can expand the scope of dialectological investigation. In John Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye," use of non-standard dialect forms occurs when the author uses an unusually informal register…
Descriptors: Authors, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Dialogs (Language)
Barish, Jonas A., Ed. – 1963
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Jonas A. Barish, T. S. Eliot, L. C. Knights, Harry Levin, Edmund Wilson, Arthur Sale, C. H. Herford, Paul Goodman, Edward B. Partridge, Ray L. Heffner, Jr., Joseph Allen Bryant, Jr., and Dolora Cunningham--all dealing…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Drama, English Instruction
Bate, Walter Jackson, Ed. – 1964
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Walter Jackson Bate, T. S. Eliot, Douglas Bush, Richard H. Fogle, Jack Stillinger, Harold Bloom, David Perkins, Earl Wasserman, and D. G. James--all dealing with the biography and literary work of John Keats. Designed for…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, English Instruction, English Literature
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Foster, Donald W. – Computers and the Humanities, 1996
Responds critically to Ward Elliott and Robert Valenza's computerized stylometric analyses of Shakespeare plays and purported Shakespearean materials. Argues that the Elliott-Valenza tests are deeply flawed, both in their design and execution. Claims that inconvenient data were ignored, control samples not identified, and unwarranted assumptions…
Descriptors: Authors, Computational Linguistics, Computer Uses in Education, Content Analysis
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