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Download full textClay, Rebecca – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2015
Can you make James Joyce's short story "Eveline" contemporary and create a modern short story based on Joyce's work? The purpose of this study was to provide a context to Joyce's short story "Eveline," illustrate the journey of my fiction writing, and expand the conversation on using classical fiction as a guide to modern short…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Twentieth Century Literature, Fiction, Creative Writing
Brown, Angela – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
It has been created within the larger realm culture, in that "Black methodology differs from most colonial differences by members of a minority community who reside within a nation of cultural biases."
Descriptors: African American Literature, Poetry, Fiction, Authors
Rosenberg, Liz, Ed. – 1996
Poetry helps people to focus on the world, to focus more clearly on what is inside a person and all around. This anthology of poems by America's best poets contains many kinds of poems aimed at many kinds of readers. The poems in the anthology are meant to be enjoyed by children, but they are not necessarily "children's poetry." Each poet whose…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Contemporary Literature, Literary Genres
Peer reviewedHipple, Ted – ALAN Review, 1993
Challenges readers to work harder than they have been working for young adult literature in general and ALAN in particular. Suggests ways to promote young adult literature. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, English Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Secondary Education
Finn, Francis J. – Benziger Brothers, 1892
This book is an adventure novel for ages 8 to 14.
Descriptors: Novels, Childrens Literature, Adolescent Literature, Literary Genres
Taylor, Caroline – Humanities, 1988
Discusses the comprehensive volume, "A Literary History of the American West." Outlines the method of organization and scope of material included in the volume. Points out that this work covers four centuries of chronicles devoted to the West, and that the materials reflect literature from both the old and the new West. (KO)
Descriptors: American Studies, Authors, Book Reviews, Eighteenth Century Literature
Schmidt, Nancy J. – 1981
Children's fiction about Africa which has been either written in English or translated from other languages into English is discussed in this book. Covered are 542 novels and volumes of short stories written for children that were collected and read by the author before July 1977. Part I outlines several major elements of the cultural background…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Authors, Background
Black Plume, Bob – Weewish Tree, 1979
The origin of the Big Dipper is described in this Canadian Indian legend. (RTS)
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indians, Animals, Childrens Literature
Splitter, Ruth Dimond – Weewish Tree, 1979
This delightful American Indian legend describes a meeting between a mountain lion, numerous domesticated cats, and a small boy. (RTS)
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indians, Animals, Childrens Literature
Peer reviewedJackson, Jacqueline; Dell, Carol – Language Arts, 1979
Provides an alternative version of Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree" which highlights the story's satirical import. (DD)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Literature Appreciation, Satire
Whirlwind Soldier, Merrill; Geerlings, Barbara – Weewish Tree, 1979
The American Indian oral tradition is presented in this article on the Omaha tribe's Rabbit Dance. (RTS)
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indians, Animals, Childrens Literature
Weewish Tree, 1979
This article presents the Abenaki version of their "discovery of the earth" and the origin of their one god, Katahdin. (RTS)
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indians, Animal Behavior, Childrens Literature
van Loon, L. G. – Weewish Tree, 1979
This is a tale of Two Fall Together, the name of a stretch of foamy water in the Mohawk River where a young man and Angry Spirit struggled and the Mohawks eventually lived in peace. (Author/RTS)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Childrens Literature
Sekaquaptewa, Emory, Ed.; Pepper, Barbara, Ed. – 1994
Intended to promote the preservation of the Hopi language, two illustrated children's books present traditional Hopi tales in bilingual format. Based on a story told by Herschel Talashoema, "Coyote & Little Turtle" tells how Little Turtle tricked Coyote into carrying him from the hot sand that burned his feet to Little Turtle's home in a spring.…
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, Childrens Literature, Cultural Maintenance, Grammar
Vizenor, Gerald, Ed. – 1989
Native American literary works have often been ignored by serious critics or examined by social scientists in ways that rob them of their effectiveness as works of art. The emphasis of postmodern theory on the creative power of language, on narrative discourse, and on signs and semiotics allows an original and perceptive approach to Native…
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indians, Essays, Literary Criticism
