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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 reviewedLillyman, W. J. – German Quarterly, 1973
Descriptors: Dialogs (Literary), Formal Criticism, German Literature, Literary Criticism
Miller, Bruce E. – Journal of English Teaching Techniques, 1973
Presents a rationale and teaching techniques for Keats's To Autumn,'' emphasizing teacher preparation, student responses, and classroom presentation. (RB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Lyric Poetry
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
Download full textEspey, David – 1995
If children are not present in most travel literature--precisely because the genre has most typically been the domain of solitary male travelers who are escaping domestic obligation, routine, the familiar, and the family--they nevertheless are an integral part of the genre. The traveler is in many ways a child, an innocent abroad. Traveler writers…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedPicart, Caroline Joan S. – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1998
Contributes to scholarship on film and feminism by showing how James Whale's film attempts to excise or severely delimit the disturbing critique of the Romantic politics of gender in Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein." Discusses parthenogenesis, showing how the novel critiques the Romantic rhetorical reconstructions of masculine…
Descriptors: Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Film Criticism, Films
Peyre, Henri, Ed. – 1962
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Paul Valery, Henri Peyre, Fracois Mauriac, Charles du Bos, Etienne Gilson, P.M. Pasinetti, John Middleton Murry, Marcel Proust, Georges Poulet, Erich Auerbach, and Jean Prevost--all dealing with the biography and literary…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, French Literature, Higher Education
Peer reviewedDe Saint Victor, Pierre – French Review, 1971
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Formal Criticism, French Literature, Historical Criticism
Peer reviewedSimmons, Eileen A. – English Journal, 1994
Discusses the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley and how it might be used in secondary English classes as a means of investigating contemporary issues of technology and morality. Describes how one teacher asked students to identify a social issue from the novel and investigate it in today's news media. (HB)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation
Haefner, Joel – 1992
In recent years the High Romantic concept of the solitary author has been intensely challenged. Compositionists and various theorists have deconstructed the concept of isolated authorship and critiqued the Romantic notion of individual genius. Meanwhile, the reconstruction of the female literary tradition introduced the question of gender and…
Descriptors: Authors, Collaborative Writing, Feminism, Higher Education
Clark, John R.; Motto, Anna Lydia – 1977
This paper traces the historical development of melodrama in the theatre and discusses its influence on twentieth century drama. Melodrama is a responsible literary mode based on romance and allegory, and its deliberate exaggeration of external actions represents figuratively the interior or psychological dimensions of imagination. Good melodrama…
Descriptors: Audiences, Drama, Emotional Experience, Literary Criticism
Hoekzema, Loren – 1975
The book "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" by Clarence King, a late-ninteenth-century American geologist, writer, art critic, and romantic, is discussed in this paper. In the writing and revision of this book, King was attempting a metamorphosis of landscape description into popular reading as he moved from being a symbolic writer to…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Geology, Literary Criticism, Literary Influences
West, Paul, Ed. – 1963
One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by G. Wilson Knight, Bernard Blackstone, Mario Praz, Paul West, Guy Steffan, F. R. Leavis, W. W. Robson, Helen Gardner, George M. Ridenour, Edmund Wilson, Gilbert Highet, Bertrand Russell, and John Wain--all dealing with the…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, English Literature, Higher Education
Paul, Angus – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Using "historicist" techniques, scholars have offered challenging alternatives to standard views on the Romantic era. Historicists advocate yoking theories such as deconstruction with analyses of political, social, and other factors that played a role in the creation of period literature. An exhibit touring the United States is…
Descriptors: Archives, Evaluation, Exhibits, Higher Education
Peer reviewedVeidemanis, Gladys V. – English Journal, 1986
Presents five reasons for classroom study of Mary Shelley's gothic work: (1)intriguing style and subject matter, brevity and novelty; (2)narrative versatility; (3)representation of the Romantic Era in English literature; (4)female authorship; (5)significance of the central theme of "scientific aims pursued in reckless disregard of human…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, English Instruction, English Literature, Literary Criticism
