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Nnaemeka, Obioma – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1992
In his works, Richard Wright denounces murder while advocating collectivism as an essential ingredient for effecting social change. The short story collection "Uncle Tom's Children" and the novel "Native Son" are the focal points in this analysis of Wright's recurring themes. (SLD)
Descriptors: Authors, Black Culture, Blacks, Fear

LeSeur, Geta – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1992
Four African-American and West Indian novels of childhood illustrate relationships and bonding between mothers and sons: (1) "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (James Baldwin); (2) "Not without Laughter" (Langston Hughes); (3) "Amongst Thistles and Thorns" (Austin Clarke); and (4) "In the Castle of My Skin"…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Authors, Black Family, Blacks
Linn, Ray – 1996
Based on the idea that the study of postmodernism is a useful and valuable pursuit because it engages students in discussions of fundamental questions about the individual's situation in the world, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to address postmodernism effectively. The book conceives postmodernism as a widespread cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, High Schools, Higher Education, Intellectual History
Reeves, Carol – 1994
Satirical writing offers a means of encouraging students to criticize those forms of victimization and inequality that trouble them most without that overt, dogmatic indoctrination of a political agenda that many would consider an anathema to democratic teaching. The indirect, satirical jab provides students with an intellectually challenging and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, College English, College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis
Harjo, Joy; And Others – Wicazo Sa Review, 1985
Four Native American poets in easy narrative style tell about some of the aesthetic judgments they make in their work and, in the process, shed some light upon the traditions from which their poetry emerges. Joy Harjo discusses how she wrote "The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window," her use of repetition influenced by music…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Literary Criticism
Elbow, Peter – 1987
Voice is a useful critical concept for studying texts, and can be classified into three types: (1) audible voice--how much the reader "hears" the text; (2) dramatic voice--what kind of speaker or writer is implied in the text; and (3) one's own voice--the relationship of the text to the actual writer. Written language is more likely to…
Descriptors: Authors, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices
Cianciolo, Patricia Jean – 1977
This paper examines the fantasy literature that is currently available to young readers. Twenty-two children's books are listed and discussed under the following topics: good storytelling and lively imagination, recurring themes, satires and word play, original fairytales, and works that reflect the divided self, the occult, and parapsychology. It…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Creative Thinking, Fantasy

Friedman, Susan – College English, 1975
Descriptors: Biographies, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Literary History
White, Barbara A. – 1977
This annotated bibliography lists works of criticism that analyze women writers in the United States as a group. The categories under which over 400 titles are listed include biography, special groups, special topics, literary history, contemporary assessments, feminine sensibility (whether men and women write differently, and why), the problems…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Authors, Females, Feminism
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
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
Hewitt, Douglas – 1972
This book considers the right and the wrong ways to approach different types of novels. Trollope's "The Way We Live Now" is the starting point for chapters dealing with the conventions of realism as they are revealed in the presentation of characters, in the novelists' language, and in the tension between the autonomy of character and the demands…
Descriptors: Characterization, English, Language Usage, Literary Criticism
JoAnn Niehaus, Sister – 1973
"The Hope Chest," a short story by Jean Stafford, offers a challenge to the oral interpreter of literature because it demands that the performer demonstrate its complex narrative levels. There are five distinct facets in the personality of the central character, Miss Bellamy: a lonely, fearful old lady; a shrewd, hospitable mistress of…
Descriptors: Characterization, Expressive Language, Fiction, Interpretive Reading

Bennett, John – English Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Poetry

Hilbert, Betsy – College English, 1986
Looks at Melville's narrative construction of "onion-like...layers of truth" that combine romance and textbook, presents critics' discussion and scholars' treatment of the cetological information present in the text, offers an explanation for the lack of recognition due to the nonfictional parts of "Moby Dick." (JK)
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices