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Goldberg, Nancy Sloan – Hispania, 2014
Ventura García Calderón (1886-1959) was a Peruvian man of letters and a diplomat who was at the center of the hispanophone community in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century. Known as a proponent of Spanish American literature, García Calderón achieved a global celebrity for his dramatic, colorful, and ironic short stories. These…
Descriptors: Authors, French, Spanish, Spanish Literature
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Willinsky, John M. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1987
In language education, several recent curricular developments from expressive writing to interactional reading share a common core of assumptions rooted in British Romanticism. This article compares central tenets of the New Literacy and Romanticism, focusing on the former's reconceptualization of the teacher, the student, and the language arts…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Literacy
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Magie, Michael L. – College English, 1977
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Novels, Romanticism
Augusti, Valeria – Horizontes, 1997
Considers the set of representations that configure the images of the literature of Brazilian Romanticism. Notes the capacity of this literature to transform both values and social patterns of behavior. (PA)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Styles
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Linderberger, Herbert – College English, 1972
What we seek out and note in earlier literature is what is most prominent, satisfying, and comprehensible to the contemporary imagination. (RB)
Descriptors: College Instruction, English Instruction, English Literature, Literary Criticism
Resch, Kenneth E. – 1986
Poetry of the romantic age is often uninviting to students, leaving them puzzled because they do not sense the connections between the poetry and themselves. Yet, much romantic poetry can be enjoyed and comprehended if approached in terms of some personal, reflective, and connective readings. Wordsworth and Whitman are often avoided because they…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation
Carlston, Erin G. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2005
Alfredo Vea Jr.'s 1993 novel "La Maravilla" depicts a 1950s squatter community on the edge of Phoenix. The community, Buckeye Road, questions notions of U.S. American identity as middle-class, WASP, and heterosexual. Buckeye can easily be viewed as a romanticized utopia that offers an alternative to consumer capitalism, urban sprawl, the…
Descriptors: Novels, Religious Factors, Literature Appreciation, Literary Criticism
Ross, William T. – Freshman English News, 1978
Traces the denigration of discursive prose back through the "New Criticism" to Romanticism and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who saw poetry as special and separate from other rhetoric. Notes that discursive prose can be just as creative and interesting as poetry. Urges composition teachers to shift their point of view accordingly. (RL)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Creativity, English Instruction, Higher Education
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Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr. – American Indian Quarterly, 1979
Some modern scholars feel that Washington Irving vacillated between romanticism and realism in his literary treatment of the American Indian. However, a study of all his works dealing with Indians, placed in context with his non-Indian works, reveals that his attitude towards Indians was intelligent and enlightened for his time. (CM)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Authors, Beliefs
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Fischer, Michael – College English, 1979
Discusses the emergence of a new kind of criticism which has as its philosophical starting point the rejections of mimesis, and traces the process leading up to the development of this critical theory--a process which began in English criticism of the romantic period. (DD)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Intellectual History, Literary Criticism
Easterling, Ilda-Marie – 1975
In 1933 in Paris, a new literary movement was born: negritude, a black French-language movement. Its principal figures were Leopold Sedar Senghor, Aime Cesaire, and Leon Damas. The chief features of the movement included: (1) awareness of African cultural history; (2) acceptance of and pride in the black racial identity; (3) a style which combined…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Biculturalism, Black Culture
Lewis, John – 1976
Intended for use by adult readers who wish to independently continue their education at the college level, this study guide and reading list, compiled for the Dallas public library system, provides suggestions for the study of American literature. Readings from the works of major authors from each of the following historical periods are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Black Literature, Drama, Females
Unterecker, John, Ed. – 1963
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by John Unterecker, W. H. Auden, High Kenner, Giogio Melchiori, Frank Kermode, W. Y. Tindall, T. S. Eliot, R. P. Blackmur, Alex Zwerdling, Curtis Bradford, D. J. Gordon, Ian Fletcher, A. G. Stock, Allen Tate, and Richard…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Drama, English Instruction
Siegel, Gerald – 1975
A successful, elective minicourse in the literature of terror and the supernatural examined various literary works in the light of six goals: to examine the terror motif in fiction (in print and other media), to try to understand the reasons for the continued appeal of the literature of terror, to investigate why representative authors have…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Eighteenth Century Literature, Fear, Fiction
Griffith Univ., Brisbane (Australia). School of Humanities. – 1984
This course, one of 16 sequential courses comprising phase one of a part-time Bachelor of Arts degree program in Australian Studies, uses literary authorship as an example of a highly individualized social role and shows how authorial attributions and modes of composition have changed over time. It is designed for independent study combined with…
Descriptors: Authors, Course Content, Course Descriptions, External Degree Programs