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Download full textDennis, Deborah; Trotman, Charlene C. – 1991
Through the mid-1980s, resistance to contemporary literary theory (especially Jacques Derrida's philosophy of deconstruction) took the form of a bitter debate that enlivened literary journals and Modern Language Association meetings. The debate continues even today, with traditional literary critics rejecting deconstruction as nihilistic and…
Descriptors: Characterization, Creative Thinking, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedKraft, Quentin G. – College English, 1988
Discusses William Beatty Warner's "Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation," a study of Samuel Richardson's role as eighteenth-century critic and interpreter of his own novels. Examines the treatment of character by both Richardson and Warner, focusing on Richardson's humanist interpretation and Warner's anti-humanist…
Descriptors: Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Literary Criticism
Sutton, Roger – Horn Book Magazine, 1987
Examines Rosemary Wells's "None of the Above," a young adult novel of despair, whose bitterness arises from the choices young people face in the dreary contemporary world. (NKA)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Authors, Characterization
Peer reviewedHamel, Frederick L.; Smith, Michael W. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1998
Presents a model of instruction to illustrate that helping students understand a text need not be at odds with engaging them in student-oriented transactions. Analyzes effects of giving lower-track students direct instruction in how experienced readers evaluate reliability of literary characters by examining the writing and discussions that the…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Characterization, English Instruction, High Schools
Simon, Melanie – 2002
Based on Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein," this lesson plan presents activities designed to help students understand that active readers interpret a novel (its characters, plot, setting, and theme) in different ways; and the great literature can be and has been adapted in many ways over time. The main activity of the lesson involves students…
Descriptors: Characterization, Class Activities, Court Litigation, English Instruction
Moffitt, Mary Anne – 1987
A Jungian psychoanalytic approach, using the unconscious animus/anima archetype, can explain the appeal of the romance novel to women readers through an understanding of how the romance formula fulfills the psychological needs of contemporary women as the struggle for identity in a patriarchal society. The heroine of the romance is attracted to…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Characterization, Females, Feminism
Peer reviewedGolden, Joanne – English Quarterly, 1986
Analyzes how two groups of eighth graders and their teacher create literary texts during small group discussion, and suggests the importance of talk as a means of constructing meaning. (NKA)
Descriptors: Characterization, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction
