NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Hidden, Norman – Use of English, 1989
Describes the results of a study in which 32 English teachers were requested to identify passages of verse disguised as prose. Analyzes which features enabled the readers to recognize the poetry passages. (KEH)
Descriptors: Educational Research, English Literature, Foreign Countries, Poetry
Martin, Tony; Leather, Bob – 1994
Exploring the responses of a variety of readers from three-year-old Dominic sharing a picture book with his father to adults reading a poem by Ted Hughes, this book examines the ways in which various readers respond to different texts. The aim of the book is to develop an awareness of the issues involved in readers' responses for primary teachers.…
Descriptors: Advertising, British National Curriculum, Elementary Education, English Literature
Riccobono, Rossella – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This article analyzes the function of deixis in the poetry of the 20th century Italian, Eugenio Montale, in particular, his "In limine." The main objective is to show how deixis is involved in the dynamic relationship between text and reader. A constant problem in Montale's texts is that of a disharmony felt by the poetic voice with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Rhythm, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles