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Swisher, Clarice, Ed. – 1997
Designed for young adults, this book on Jane Austen's novels 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 adults; each…
Descriptors: Authors, Classics (Literature), English Literature, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedBixler, Phyllis; Agosta, Lucien – Children's Literature in Education, 1984
Argues that critics of children's literature who extol the folktale should think twice before so vehemently scorning popular fiction such as the Nancy Drew series and that historians of children's literature should consider further what some writers of children's classics may have owed to the formulas of popular adult fiction. (HOD)
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Classics (Literature), Fiction
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
Bloom, Harold – 1995
This book argues against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great works and essential writers of the ages, the "Western Canon." The book studies 26 writers and seeks to isolate the qualities that made these authors canonical, that is, authoritative in Western culture. Noting that although originally the…
Descriptors: Authors, Classics (Literature), Cultural Context, Higher Education
Perrin, Noel – 1997
The essays in this collection are about neglected classics of children's fiction. The essays first appeared in the "Washington Post" and the "Los Angeles Times." With a scope limited to those works (mostly from the 20th-century) already overlooked or in danger of slipping from view, the 30 essays lead the reader through a wide…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Book Reviews, Childhood Interests
Swisher, Clarice, Ed. – 1996
Intended as an accessible resource for students researching America's greatest literary figures, this collection of essays about John Steinbeck's (1902-1968) work contains an in-depth biography and essays taken from a wide variety of sources. The essays are edited to accommodate the reading and comprehension levels of young adults; each essay is…
Descriptors: Authors, Classics (Literature), Fiction, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSarrett, Sylvia – English Journal, 1987
Contrasts the complaints of a class of gifted students about Dickens' novel "A Tale of Two Cities" with their teacher's discomfort at sitting through the long and tedious movie "Brazil." (NKA)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Authors, Classics (Literature), Comparative Analysis
