Extremists, whether formalists of the New Criticism or of the humanist-moralist tradition, are taken to task in this attempt to combine elements of both in a more pluralistic approach to literary criticism. An analysis of a Frost poem, "Stopping by Woods", is attempted as an illustration of a kind of criticism that seeks to clarify the parts of…

Three writers debate whether English teachers should depend on external or internal criteria when analyzing and teaching literature. Each writer discusses the meaning of Elinor Wylie's poem, "The Eagle and the Mole," according to his particular view of literary analysis. Edward Ducharme, in "The Evasion of the Text," submits…

Barthes'"S/Z: An Essay" offers ways of approaching critical problems not well dealt with in Anglo-American criticism.

In criticism, as in real life, we should take into account what the dramatic speaker is doing in the act of uttering a piece of discourse. (JH)

Described in this article is a critical procedure in the study of literature defined by the author as a method of responsive interrogation of the text. The approach is guided by a study of relevant political, sociological, literary, and intellectual circumstances. Three fundamental questions are central to the discussion of the theory: (1) What…

The focus story forms are differentiated by their characteristic uses of time and space and by the psychological processes they engage.

Classifying a work of literature means that it is similar to another work or works, and that these similarities may provide insight into it, or suggest new ways of asking or answering questions about it. (Author/MF)

Literature is being confronted by a long existing problem: the distortion of emphasis in a literary analysis which prefers to discuss refinement of style as the prime content of a work, not as the completion of a total effect. (Author/MF)

The purposes of this book are to introduce film as an art and to show how close, both in form and content, literature and the narrative film are to one another. To accomplish these purposes, the basic components of literature and film are compared, including language (the novel uses words, while the film uses images), point of view, and figurative…

Analyzes three parts of Tunis' novel in view of the author's opening statement, This is a book about the conscience of a man.''

A study of Richard III, Shakespeare's version, versus a study of the real king, can help to prevent the complacent state of mind and will encourage students to search for the truth, freed from the propaganda with which it is often surrounded. Brief annotated bibliography. (Author)

This booklet discusses the development of science fiction, tracing its origins to the time of the industrial revolution. Many of the people of this time realized that life was changing and would continue to change, that there were new forces at work in the world, and that humankind should exercise some forethought about the direction in which…