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Download full textBula, Andrew – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2021
Reverend Father Professor Amechi Nicholas Akwanya is one of the towering scholars of literature in Nigeria and elsewhere in the world. For decades, and still counting, Fr. Prof. Akwanya has worked arduously, professing literature by way of teaching, researching, and writing in the Department of English and Literary Studies of the University of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Literary Criticism, Teaching Methods
Reading from Nowhere: Assessed Literary Response, Practical Criticism and Situated Cultural Literacy
Direct linkGordon, John – English in Education, 2018
School examinations of student responses to literature often present poetry blind or "unseen", inviting decontextualised close reading consistent with the orientation-to-text associated with Practical Criticism (originating in the UK) and New Criticism (originating in the USA). The approach survives in the UK after curricular reforms and…
Descriptors: Cultural Literacy, Prior Learning, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Lockwood, Michael – Children's Literature in Education, 2014
This article looks at how four British-based poets born in the Caribbean exploit the rich language repertoire available to them in their work for children and young people. Following initial consideration of questions of definition and terminology, poetry collections by James Berry, John Agard, Grace Nichols and Valerie Bloom are discussed, with a…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Poetry, Language Variation, Creoles
Simonson, Harold P. – Coll Composition Commun, 1970
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Emotional Experience, English Literature, Impressionistic Criticism
Friedman, Norman – College English, 1965
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…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Comparative Analysis, Educational Objectives, English Instruction
Grushow, Ira – Coll Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, English Instruction, English Literature, Literary Criticism
Probst, R. E. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1972
Descriptors: English Literature, Impressionistic Criticism, Literary Criticism, Literary Influences
Sutton, Max Keith – Coll Engl, 1969
Descriptors: English Literature, Language, Literary Criticism, Metaphors
Erzgraber, Willi – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1971
Paper presented at the Deutscher Neuphilologentag in Munster, West Germany, on April 2, 1970. (WB)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Aristotelian Criticism, English (Second Language), English Literature
Werlich, Egon – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1971
Paper presented at the Deutscher Neuphilologentag in Munster, West Germany, on April 2, 1970. (WB)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Aristotelian Criticism, English (Second Language), English Literature
Waingrow, Marshall – Stud Engl Lit, 1970
Discusses about 50 books of or about English literature of the Restoration period published during 1969. (DS)
Descriptors: Anthologies, Book Reviews, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature
Peer reviewedFoley, Michael – English Quarterly, 1973
Analyzes the fourteenth century English poem "Patience" as a commentary on society's reactions to the crises of the latter half of that century. (TO)
Descriptors: English Literature, Literary Criticism, Poetry
Kunne, Wulf – Neusprachliche Mitteilungen, 1973
Article includes texts and analyses of Alan Brownjohn's A202,'' Ted Hughes' Lineage'' and Conjuring in Heaven,'' and Adrian Mitchell's To Whom It May Concern.'' (RS)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Literature, Literary Criticism, Poetry
Nist, John, Ed. – 1969
The thesis that style through the manner of expression provides the writer or speaker with the matter of his discourse is the subject of these eight essays. Articles are by (1) Louis T. Milic, who explores the implication of stylistic theory for the teaching of composition, (2) Martin Joos, who relates style theories to the national enthusiasm for…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, English Literature, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm
Peer reviewedBeaver, Joseph C. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: English, English Literature, Poetry, Theoretical Criticism
