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Peer reviewedMagie, Michael L. – College English, 1977
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Novels, Romanticism
Peer reviewedFischer, 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
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
Peer reviewedGrossman, Kathryn M. – Journal of General Education, 1985
Examines Victor Hugo's "Ninety-three," Charles Dickens'"Tale of Two Cities," and Eugene Zamiatin's "We" as examples of romantic satire, considering in each work the quest motif, the oedipal themes, the dystopian vision, and the role of love. (AYC)
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature, Novels, Romanticism
Peer reviewedWilkie, Christine – Children's Literature in Education, 1997
Offers a rereading of Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden," finding in it the triumph of Apollonian male rationalism over the Dionysian female cult of nature. Examines images of primitivism and wildness in the book, connecting them to polarities in conceptions of primitivism. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Literary Criticism, Literary History
Peer reviewedBruffee, Kenneth A. – College English, 1971
Identifies--and labels as elegiac romance"--a group of 19th and 20th century American, English, and European novels in which a narrator relates the story of a heroic, questing figure to whom he is committed in attempting to overcome the effect of loss which results from" the hero's death. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Literary Criticism, Literary Genres, Narration
Transformations of Wordsworth's Nature in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century British Literature.
Download full textDodson, Charles B. – 1995
One way of making connections among various authors in a survey course is to emphasize recurring themes, images, and tropes; the instructor can point out how they are transformed by a constantly changing ethos and set of historical circumstances. A case in point is the second part of a British survey, typically going from William Blake or William…
Descriptors: English Literature, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Literary Criticism
