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Teaching Eighteenth-Century Poetic Satire with a Competency-Based Approach: Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Modia, María Jesús Lorenzo; Álvarez, Begoña Lasa – International Education Studies, 2011
The purpose of this essay is to analyse the teaching of literature with a competency-based approach. This is exemplified by means of a thorough study of a poetic duel between two relevant eighteenth-century writers, Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and more specifically, by means of the satires entitled respectively "The Lady's…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Poetry, Satire
An End to Writing about Swift?
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Fricke, Donna G. – Journal of General Education, 1982
Provides a rationale for current scholarly studies of Jonathan Swift. Reviews the two distinct directions taken by modern authors writing about Swift: the traditional historical branch and the rhetorical and literary criticism branch. Considers evidence of and reasons for a revived interest in satire and anticipates areas of future study. (DMM)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Literary History, Literature Appreciation, Satire
"La juventud triunfante" and the Origins of Padre Islas Satire
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Palmer, Joe L. – Hispania, 1973
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, Formal Criticism, Literary Styles, Political Attitudes
Moratin's "la Comedia Nueva" and the Reform of the Spanish Theater
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Dowling, John – Hispania, 1970
Descriptors: Characterization, Comedy, Drama, Eighteenth Century Literature
Der spanische Robinson Crusoe (The Spanish Robinson Crusoe)
Heidenreich, Helmut – Neueren Sprach, 1970
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Language Instruction, Literary Influences
His Highness' Dog at Kew
Thomas, W. K. – Coll Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Neoclassic Literary Period, Imagery
Peter Pindar (John Wolcot).
Vales, Robert L. – 1973
This book is designed as an introduction to John Wolcot's works for the general reader, the college student, and the college teacher. Wolcot, whose pen name was Peter Pindar, wrote topical satire on public personalities of the eighteenth century, and his methods of criticism are the motif which guides each chapter and which unites all the satires…
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction, English Literature, Higher Education
"Persona" as Character in Literature.
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Babcock, Suzanne – Exercise Exchange, 1983
Provides an eight-day sequence of assignments to introduce the idea of the speaker or "persona" to a high school English class beginning study of eighteenth and nineteenth century literature. Cites works by Thomas Hardy, Jonathan Swift, and William Blake. (HTH)
Descriptors: Characterization, Classroom Techniques, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Instruction
Satirizing the Debating Society in Eighteenth-Century England.
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Browne, Stephen H. – Argumentation and Advocacy, 1989
Proposes satire as a form of argumentative practice. Examines eighteenth-century satirical attacks upon London's ubiquitous debating societies (formed among tradesmen, craftsmen, professionals, and small businessmen to "improve" themselves) as evidence of satire's public role in which the ideological struggle between social classes was…
Descriptors: Debate, Eighteenth Century Literature, European History, Foreign Countries
Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot": Teaching Background and Approach.
Dean, Paul – Use of English, 1984
Suggests a method of teaching the poetry of Alexander Pope that focuses on the satirical nature of his writing. (AEA)
Descriptors: Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
Shandyean Satire and the Rhetorical Arts in Eighteenth-Century England.
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Browne, Stephen H. – Southern Communication Journal, 1990
Examines within Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" two representative orientations (reasons and experience) as indices of popular attitudes about the rhetorical arts during the eighteenth century. Argues that, as a satire on rhetorical pretensions and excess, this novel is an important document in the venerable battle between the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Research, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis
Satirizing Women's Speech in Eighteenth-Century England.
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Browne, Stephen H. – Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 1992
Examines the 18th-century rhetorical convention of misogynist satire and how it shaped attitudes toward women speakers. Focuses not so much on the formal properties of the satire but on its convention and content as modes of insinuation. Surveys prominent journals, newspapers, magazines, and reviews of the period. (TB)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Content Analysis, Eighteenth Century Literature, Females
Report of the Yale Conference on the Teaching of English (16th, Yale University, April 10-11, 1970).
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. Graduate School. – 1970
Four speeches illustrating important principles in the teaching of English are collected in this booklet: (1) "The Teaching of Writing as Art" by William E. Coles, Jr., who, in posing ambiguous, provocative questions as writing assignments, compels the student to explore language in its relationship to his experience and his persona; (2)…
Descriptors: Classical Literature, College Instruction, Comedy, Drama