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Driver, Duncan – English in Australia, 2017
This essay seeks to recognise the value in a literature-focused model of the discipline of English, using I.A. Richards, C.K. Ogden and the American New Critics as models of critics who placed the text, and the reader's relationship with the text, at the centre of any study of literature, arguing that this relationship is analogous to that which…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Critical Literacy, Aesthetics, Poetry
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Allingham, Philip – English in Australia, 2015
Although secondary school teachers have long been aware of the pedagogical possibilities of Louise Rosenblatt's Reader Response (articulated first in "Literature as Exploration," 1938) and I. A. Richards' Close Reading (first broached in "The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English Instruction, Secondary School Students, Social History
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Hillier, Claire – English in Australia, 1985
Argues that coping with the complex demands of a story not only increases readers' enjoyment of literature, but also aids in intellectual and interpretive enjoyment. (HOD)
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Fiction, Literary Devices