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Peer reviewedHopkins, Mary Francis – Communication Monographs, 1977
Discusses the implications of structuralism by examining "Introduction to The Structural Analysis of Narrative", a contemporary writing by Roland Barthes. Explains Barthes' terms and concepts by using Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway character for an example. (MH)
Descriptors: Drama, Fiction, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedTaub, Harvey A. – Educational Gerontology, 1984
Evaluated the effect of using underlining cues in prose materials for 24 elderly volunteers with low or high Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale vocabulary subtest scores. Results showed underlining cues were not successful in reducing vocabulary-related differences in performance. (BH)
Descriptors: Older Adults, Prose, Readability, Reading Ability
Peer reviewedBassin, Carolyn B.; Martin, Clessen J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
A 2,217-word news article was reduced 10 percent, 30 percent, and 50 percent by one of three reduction methods: word frequency, grammatical, and subjective. Reduction method had no effect on comprehension at the 10 percent and 30 percent reduction levels, but at the 50 percent level the subjective method produced better reading performance than…
Descriptors: College Students, Prose, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate
Peer reviewedBower, Gordon H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Inhibition, Learning, Memory
Peer reviewedDel Giorno, Walter; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1974
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Prose, Reading Skills, Reinforcement
Valderrey, Carmen – Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 1973
Descriptors: Ballads, Epics, Legends, Literature
Peer reviewedMcGovern, John F. – Classical Journal, 1972
Descriptors: Business, Descriptive Linguistics, Latin, Medieval History
Aquilar Pinal, Francisco – Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 1972
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Change, Eighteenth Century Literature, Prose
Peer reviewedGilderman, Martin S. – Hispania, 1973
Descriptors: Formal Criticism, Imagery, Medieval Literature, Motifs
Peer reviewedSalm, Peter – German Quarterly, 1973
Descriptors: Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, Fiction, Formal Criticism
Peer reviewedAnderson, Richard C.; Kulhavy, Raymond W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
From evidence of this study it appears that a person will learn more from a prose passage if he forms images of the things and events described in the passage. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, High School Students, Imagery, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedRoggiano, Alfredo A. – Revista Iberoamericana, 1972
Descriptors: Anthologies, Authors, Biographies, Hispanic American Literature
Peer reviewedVarela, Jose Luis – Revista de Filologia Espanola, 1969
Special issue devoted to the life and works of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. (DS)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Motifs, Nineteenth Century Literature, Prose
MacAndrew, M. Elizabeth – Coll Engl, 1970
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Characterization, Fiction, Figurative Language
Peer reviewedWagar, W. Warren – Futurist, 1983
H. G. Wells is not quite the household name that he deserves to be, even in the households of futurists. Visions of the future in his writing and his attempts to translate these visions into reality through his work for socialism and the League of Nations are discussed. (SR)
Descriptors: Activism, Futures (of Society), Nonfiction, Prediction
