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Comprone, Joseph J. – Journal of Advanced Composition, 1989
Suggests two shifts in perspective that will help turn writing across the curriculum courses toward aim and away from mode as a central organizing principle. Suggests a theoretical shift from "mode" to "topic" and a practical shift from single to plural textuality, combining several textual paradigms as demonstrated in the…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Discourse Analysis, Essays, Expository Writing

Lalla, Barbara – Journal of Black Studies, 1990
Reviews the use of humor in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Black Creole Jamaican literature and song. Concludes that irony is inherent in the creative expression of early Jamaicans and writers about Jamaica, arising from inconsistencies of attitudes of Blacks toward Whites and toward themselves. (FMW)
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Influences, Eighteenth Century Literature, Foreign Countries

Mbalia, Doreatha Drummond – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1992
Toni Cade Bambara's novel "The Salt Eaters" is art colored by social responsibility as the author attempts to give her African-American audience a sense of their history and their identity so they can value and accept collective work and responsibility. The novel's strengths and thematic weaknesses are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Authors, Black Culture, Black History, Blacks
Lott, Sandra Ward, Ed.; And Others – 1993
This book is a collection of essays designed for high school and college teachers who want to introduce non-Western and other non-canonical texts into their traditional literature courses. The essays in the book explore the kinds of visions encountered when teachers cluster Western texts with those outside the dominant Western tradition. Papers in…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Brunner, Diane – 1984
An examination of the film, "Educating Rita," explores the effects of power respective to particular gender categories and suggests ways that the film becomes a case study in gender and education. The film is about a woman, Rita, who wants the ability to have choices in her life, pursues an education as the key to providing choices, and…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Educational Opportunities, Females, Feminism
Davidson, Phebe – 1989
Black autobiography can only be viewed sensibly in the classroom if an attempt is made to come to terms with the social and historical milieu in which the work was produced and with the persona and ethos of the writer. Critical failure to do so puts critic and text at a serious disadvantage because such failure restricts critical vision to the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Black Culture, Black Literature, Black Studies
Fuller, Lawrence B. – 1984
The life of Mary Mapes Dodge, author of "Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates," a pioneer in the field of literature for children and adolescents during the nineteenth century, is recounted in this paper--from her childhood as the daughter of a well-connected but impecunious lecturer, scientist, and inventor through her later years as a…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Childrens Literature, Editing
Moore, Nancy P. – 1980
An analysis of the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks shows that she can be used as a model for students at many grade levels to emulate. Her poetry excels as a model, not only because of her imagery, but also because of her use and modification of both traditional and newer forms of poetry and her skill with the devices of sound. Like other evolving and…
Descriptors: Authors, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Brombert, Victor, Ed. – 1962
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Victor Brombert, Martin Turnell, Erich Auerbach, Jean Prevost, Raymond Giraud, Irving Howe, Judd D. Hubert, Leon Blum, Jean Starobinski, Jean-Pierre Richard, and Simone de Beauvoir--all dealing with the biography and…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction
Raybin, Ron – Illinois English Bulletin, 1970
An effective teaching method, the technique of changing crucial characteristics of a literary work and presenting students with unsuitable alternatives leads the students to their own discovery of the artistic appropriateness of the original. Examples may be seen in each of three representative areas of English: (1) poetry--substitute words to…
Descriptors: Characterization, Discovery Learning, English Instruction, Fiction

Tolentino, Roland B. – Amerasia Journal, 1997
Explores issues in defining a category of Filipino/a media arts under the umbrella of Asian Pacific American media arts. Three waves of Filipino/a American media output are mapped, and the representational issues connected with each wave are outlined. Works from each of the waves are identified. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Groups, Filipino Americans

Thury, Eva M. – Computers and the Humanities, 1988
This study focuses on imagery of youth and old age in the plays of Euripides, especially the "Suppliant Women," considering frequently used words in each play according to formula developed by Pierre Guiraud. Identifies a motif, the rejuvenation theme, in several of Euripides' plays. Shows how the word "neos" (new, young) helps…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Content Analysis, Drama, Greek Literature
Lang, Frederick K. – 1986
This paper provides a creative approach to developing literary understanding and writing ability in students in a college introduction to literature course. Eight assignments are described which pair literary works having some feature in common. A sample suggestion from the first group of exercises, concerned with characterization, is as follows:…
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices
Woodman, Leonora – 1981
Although the acts of reading literature and writing are closely linked, literature study and composition instruction remain distinct pursuits within college English departments. Style seems to be an interest that unifies the two pursuits. The most common view of style equates it with acceptable rhetorical and grammatical conventions. A second view…
Descriptors: College English, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
Lyon, Ted – 1974
During the last 15 years, Chicano literature has not only repeated some of the topics of Mexican literature, but has added many more. Similar to Mexican literature, Chicano literature deals with: the pains, trials, and common experiences of childhood; the loss of religion, as traditional Catholicism confronts the changing needs and desires of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Creativity, Hispanic American Literature, Literary Criticism