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Download full textYuasa, Kyoko – Online Submission, 2012
Modern critics do not consider science fiction and mystery novels to be "serious reading", but Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis questioned the boundaries between "popular" and "serious" literature. Both Christian writers critically discuss the spiritual crisis of the modern world in each fiction genre. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Fiction, Novels, Postmodernism
Peer reviewedLittlejohn, Carol – ALAN Review, 1997
Provides an overview of author Sylvia Louise Engdahl, who published six novels for young adults in the 1970s but nothing of the same kind since. Reviews her history and her philosophy, and presents a critical review of her writing. (TB)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Literary Criticism, Novels
Peer reviewedMcNelly, Willis E. – CEA Critic, 1972
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, College Instruction, Cultural Images
Peer reviewedBaker, D. Philip – Library Trends, 1974
An interview with Howard E. Smith, Jr., who edits science and junior books at McGraw-Hill, and with Thomas G. Aylesworth, who edits books for young readers at Doubleday. They discuss the selection of authors and subjects for books; science fiction and biography; characteristics of good science books; and foreign books. (LS)
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Childrens Literature, Editing
Borges, Jorge Luis – 1973
Offered in this book is an Argentinian's view of the literary achievement of the United States. The beginning chapters discuss Mather, Edwards, and Freneau; Franklin, Cooper, and the historians; Hawthorne and Poe; and Whitman and Herman Melville. Other chapters are given to a discussion of three poets of the nineteenth century (Lanier, Whittier,…
Descriptors: Authors, Drama, Literary Criticism, Novels
Bretnor, Reginald, Ed. – 1974
A critical symposium on science fiction, this book features essays (by Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, George Zebrowski, Frank Herbert, Theodore Sturgeon, Alan E. Nourse, Thomas N. Scortia, Reginald Bretnor, James Gunn, Alexei and Cory Panshin, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, Anne McCaffrey, Gordon R. Dickson, and Jack Williamson) dealing with such subjects…
Descriptors: Authors, Creative Writing, Essays, Literary Criticism
Egoff, Sheila, Ed.; And Others – 1969
This collection of 40 articles and essays on English-language children's literature encompasses literary history and criticism, standards, changing tastes, the child's response to books, writers and their writing, illustration, and recent books. Most of the articles and essays were written in the 1960's, but a few important earlier contributions…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Childrens Literature, Creative Writing
Cameron, Eleanor – 1969
This collection of 12 critical essays--written for teachers, librarians, students, and parents--comments on the style, characterization, sense of wonder, and sense of reality in children's books. Specific subjects covered are (1) the fantasy worlds of Andersen, Beatrix Potter, Walter de la Mare, C. S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, and J. R. R. Tolkien;…
Descriptors: Audiences, Authors, Books, Characterization
