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Hindle, Alan – English in Education, 1971
Discusses issues explored in a college course on comics from the past to the present. Subject matter, language, literary style, presentation, themes and social issues are examined via a comparison with other types of literature written concurrently. (RB)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Early Reading, Literary Criticism, Literary Influences
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Sosa Lopez, Emilio – Cuadernos Americanos, 1971
Descriptors: Hispanic American Literature, Historical Criticism, Linguistics, Literary Influences
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Hartsook, John H. – Hispania, 1971
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Biographies, Essays, Literary Styles
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Blanco Amor, Jose – Cuadernos Americanos, 1971
Descriptors: Biographies, Fiction, Historical Criticism, Literary Influences
Brueziere, Maurice – Francais dans le Monde, 1970
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Foreign Culture, French Literature, Historical Criticism
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Negri, Renzo – Italica, 1969
Descriptors: Impressionistic Criticism, Italian Literature, Literary Styles, Nineteenth Century Literature
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Garagorri, Paulino – Revista de Occidente, 1970
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Literary Styles, Moral Criticism
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Martin, Murray S. – Journal of General Education, 1981
Presents a biographical sketch of Frank Sargeson. Considers Sargeson's themes, unity of his world view, characters, and use of symbols. Explains that his style is intentionally designed to express frustration, isolation, and failure to communicate. (DMM)
Descriptors: Characterization, Communication Skills, Cultural Isolation, Literary Criticism
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Rothschild, Jeffrey M. – College English, 1990
Discusses how narrators (distinct from authors) emerged in English prose works during the last decade of the sixteenth century. Reports that instances of the use of narrators can be found throughout the seventeenth century, but that it was another hundred years before the technique developed fully enough to constitute a recognizable narrative…
Descriptors: English Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Narration
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Pember, Don R. – Journal of Communication, 1975
Explores the themes and composition styles of the new journalism movement by reviewing six books that deal with contemporary writing. (MH)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Communication (Thought Transfer), Content Analysis, Higher Education
Gaffney, Floyd – Players, 1975
Investigates aspects of the black arts movement through analysis of Baraka's (Jones,) radical theater form. Available from: Players, N.I.U. Theatre, DeKalb, Illinois 60115. Subscription Rates: $5.00 one year; $8.50 two years; foreign $1.00 per year extra. (MH)
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Literature, Characterization, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Crew, Louie; Norton, Rictor – College English, 1974
Historically, homosexual literature has been ignored, destroyed, and misinterpreted by tacit agreement of all the respectable forces in our homophobic culture. (JH)
Descriptors: Bias, Censorship, Cultural Context, Literary Criticism
Ellis, W. Geiger – 1985
Teachers' dismissal of Robert Cormier's books as "too depressing" suggests a lack of sound critical understanding of his work and a lack of faith in individual young people. The body of adolescent or young adult literature has come a long way in recent years. The writing has shown a much fuller range of literary quality and the content…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Bibliotherapy, Characterization
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Shopen, Tim – College English, 1974
Ideas or messages transmitted by language are not the same as grammatically determined meaning. (JH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Grammar, Language
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Kress-Rosen, Nicolle – Style, 1974
The concepts of distance, modalization, comprehensibility, and tension, as used for discourse analysis, can be applied to the analysis of speech events in literary texts. Such a linguistic approach may lead to new insights for the psychological description of authors and/or literary characters. Available from Dept. of English, University of…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Characterization, Dialogs (Literary), Discourse Analysis
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