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Download full textMovaghati, Sina; Comcar, Milad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Many Critics believe that Henry James has set the definitive standards of modern fiction writing. Undoubtedly his groundbreaking article "The Art of Fiction," which published for the first time in 1884, has a major contribution in developing the theories of fiction writing. The term Organic Unity has derived from a major Formalist…
Descriptors: Fiction, Literary Criticism, United States Literature, Literary Devices
Direct linkO'Brien, Tom – Arts Education Policy Review, 2007
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) has much to teach about arts education. However, the first question that many today might ask is, Should we listen to him at all? Wordsworth, some members of the postmodern academy have determined, was a bad man. He was unkind to his family and friends, they say, and they are uncomfortable with the politics he…
Descriptors: Art Education, Poets, Poetry, Popular Culture
Peer reviewedBanerjee, Jacqueline – College English, 1995
Argues that among the branches of historicism practiced by literary critics today, a branch of New Historicism that is broadly humanistic as opposed to narrowly political is the most illuminating. Describes the development and theoretical premises of this branch. Shows how it may be applied to the analysis of a literary work such as Keats's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature, Poetry
Peer reviewedNimon, Maureen – Children's Literature in Education, 1988
Asserts that Sunday School magazines are significant in the history of children's reading because they were the most easily accessible literature for children in many English-speaking countries during the nineteenth century. Examines content and themes in two such magazines, "The Children's Friend" and "The Child's Companion and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, History, Literary Criticism, Literary History
Peer reviewedBaum, Joan – CEA Critic, 1974
Argues that Wordsworth's emphasis on love of nature, faith in man, and political sympathy--three expressions of concern strongly echoed in contemporary life--make him a worth literary figure for young people to study. (RB)
Descriptors: English Literature, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature
Peer reviewedFong, David – University of Toronto Quarterly, 1970
Examines historical, critical, and even psychological" relationship of Macaulay to Johnson, and describes Macaulay's ambivalent attitude to Johnson. (Author/SP)
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, English Literature, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedHarris, Wendell V. – University of Toronto Quarterly, 1971
A detailed analysis of the prose style used by John Ruskin in The Stones of Venice. (SP)
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Nineteenth Century Literature, Textual Criticism
Peer reviewedCrawford, Fred D. – Journal of General Education, 1982
Quotes and discusses Bernard Shaw's statements on the purpose of literary art, the author's role and character, the nature of audiences, and the artistic requirements of fiction and dramatic works. Finds Shaw's theory of literary art consistent and unaltered throughout more than half a century. (DMM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Audiences, Authors, Drama
Peer reviewedHarrison, Antony H. – Journal of General Education, 1981
Points out similarities between the events and characters of Tennyson's "Maud" and Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Identifies traits which "Maud" shares with Spasmodic poetry. Argues that Tennyson consciously employed these similarities to expose the deficiencies of the Spasmodic school. (DMM)
Descriptors: Drama, Irony, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature
Avery, Laurence G. – Educational Theatre Journal, 1977
Descriptors: American Culture, Drama, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature
Peer reviewedGold, Linda – English Journal, 1985
Discusses the personality development of the "Wuthering Heights" character Catherine Earnshaw in terms of the id, the ego, and the superego. (EL)
Descriptors: Characterization, English Instruction, English Literature, Literary Criticism
O'Connell, David – Revue de Louisiane/Louisiana Review, 1972
Text of Sejour's story "Le Mulatre" (The Mulatto) is included. (RS)
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, French, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedSammons, Jeffrey L. – German Quarterly, 1973
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Formal Criticism, German Literature, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedKauf, Robert – Unterrichtspraxis, 1972
Descriptors: German Literature, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature, Novels
Peer reviewedRufino, Antonio – Italica, 1970
Descriptors: Formal Criticism, Italian Literature, Literary Criticism, Medieval Literature
