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Direct linkIsabella Walser-Bürgler – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
When the newly appointed professor of medicine at the University of Rinteln, Johann Peter Lotichius (1598-1669), delivered an oration entitled "Oratio super fatalibus hoc tempore academiarum in Germania periculis" ("Oration on the pernicious dangers to the universities of contemporary Germany") at said university in February…
Descriptors: Educational History, War, Foreign Countries, Universities
Peer reviewedFrye, Jerry K.; Krohn, Franklin B. – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1977
Provides a biographical sketch of Barbara Jordan and describes her keynote address to the 1976 Democratic Convention in terms of the rhetorical situation and the rhetorical strategies she used. (MH)
Descriptors: Biographies, Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Political Influences
Peer reviewedMoore, John Noell, Ed. – English Journal, 2001
Offers glimpses into the landscapes of people's lives. Discusses Edith Bruck's "Who Loves You Like This,""Life Stories: Profiles from 'The New Yorker'," and Hugh Sidey's "Portraits of the Presidents: Power and Personality in the Oval Office." (SG)
Descriptors: Biographies, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Styles
Ziolkowski, Theodore, Ed. – 1973
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection contains essays by Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, Martin Buber, Ernst Robert Curtius, Oskar Seidlin, Hans Mayer, G. W. Field, Jeffrey Sammons, and the editor, Theodore Ziolkowski--all dealing with the biography and literary work of Hermann Hesse.…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, German Literature, Higher Education
Demetz, Peter, Ed. – 1962
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Sergey Tretiakov, Hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Hannah Arendt, Eric Bentley, Oscar Budel, Ernst Schumacher, I. Fradkin, Hans Egon Holthusen, Gunter Rohrmoser, Walter H. Sokol, Franz Norbert…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Drama, German Literature
Peyre, Henri, Ed. – 1962
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Paul Valery, Henri Peyre, Fracois Mauriac, Charles du Bos, Etienne Gilson, P.M. Pasinetti, John Middleton Murry, Marcel Proust, Georges Poulet, Erich Auerbach, and Jean Prevost--all dealing with the biography and literary…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, French Literature, Higher Education
Weeks, Robert P., Ed. – 1962
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Lillian Ross, Malcolm Crowley, E.M. Halliday, Harry Levin, Leslie Fiedler, D.H. Lawrence, Philip Young, Sean O'Faolain, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Carlos Baker, Mark Spilka, Ray B. West, Jr., Nemi D'Agostino,…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
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
Vogel, Nancy – 1974
This biography explores poet Robert Frost's techniques as a teacher from the early days of teaching at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire, to his acceptance of a chair at Harvard University and his subsequent associations with numerous other schools. Also examined are his educational practices and philosophy--particularly his life-long…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational Philosophy, English Instruction, Higher Education
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
Adair, William Leith – 1973
Modern literary criticism may be classified into four categories to provide a format for instruction which both reduces modern criticism to its essential interests and provides a critical vocabulary which is a mediating vocabulary between modern criticism and literature. These categories are summed up in structural metaphors: Symbolic Form,…
Descriptors: Biographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, English Education
Steiner, George, Ed.; Fagles, Robert, Ed. – 1962
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by George Steiner, Leo Tolstoy, Ezra Pound, Erich Auerbach, Edwin Muir, Cedric H. Whitman, Albert B. Lord, W. H. Auden, Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukacs, C. Day Lewis, Gabriel Germain, Franz Kafka, Rachel Bespaloff, Robert…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Classical Literature, English Instruction
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
Sontz, Ann H. L. – 1991
This 1,386-entry bibliography includes materials relevant to early American and nineteenth-century academic presidencies and encompasses a specialized corpus of literature written by academic administrators since the early 1960s. The bibliography is divided into four general areas: bibliographies; background sources; biographies; and presidential…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Biographies, College Presidents
