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Peer reviewedSloan, Gary – College English, 1978
The function of fiction is to entertain, not to analyze philosophical, political, or psychological concepts and attitudes. (DD)
Descriptors: Fiction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literature
Peer reviewedStitzel, Judith – College English, 1979
Reading the works of Doris Lessing can provide readers an opportunity to think about the thinking process. (DD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literature
Peer reviewedGalenbeck, Susan – College English, 1979
Suggests, through a comparison of Bleich's work with that of the Geneva School critics, that the two criticisms have a common base and interest from which they encounter similar difficulties, and that their resolutions illuminate a solution to the totalizing effects of current criticism. (DD)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literature
Peer reviewedWilentz, Gay – College English, 1990
Examines Ernest Hemingway's indictment of Jewish culture through Robert Cohn, a character in "The Sun Also Rises." Argues that Hemingway's portrayal of Cohn reveals the apprehensions that mainstream Americans had about an alien immigrant population. Concludes that Hemingway reacted to what he viewed as a breakdown of values and a threat…
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Characterization, Jews, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedSzanto, George – College English, 1978
Describes the narrative and analytic methods John Berger uses to show his audience oppositional alternatives in the structuring of their daily experience. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Novels, Social Influences
Peer reviewedHartman, Charles O. – College English, 1977
Examines the literary criticism of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound for an explication of key terms of the modernist poetic movement. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Modernism, Poetry
Peer reviewedSwardson, H. R. – College English, 1976
A critical analysis of Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" and of the doctrine of Absurdism. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literature, United States Literature
Peer reviewedCain, William E. – College English, 1979
Analyzes the "deconstructive" literary criticism of J. Hillis Miller and the opposition between it and other schools of criticism. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literature, United States Literature
Peer reviewedPickering, Michael; Robins, Kevin – College English, 1989
Examines two novels by Sid Chaplin about the life of working-class youth in England--"The Day of the Sardine" and "The Watchers and the Watched." (MM)
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Novels, Twentieth Century Literature
Peer reviewedDevine, Mary Elizabeth; Clark, Constance M. – College English, 1976
Descriptors: Characterization, Drama, English Instruction, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedHolden, Jonathan – College English, 1979
Analyzes several poems to reveal the main canon of contemporary poetic style and the limitations it imposes on contemporary poets. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Twentieth Century Literature
Peer reviewedGilbert, Sandra M. – College English, 1979
Reviews the contributions of feminist critics to the study of women's lives. (DD)
Descriptors: Females, Feminism, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedTopf, Mel A. – College English, 1978
Presents Hannah Arendt's views on the relationship between art and society, concluding that "worldlessness" or world alienation is reflected in modern literature and literary criticism. (DD)
Descriptors: Art, Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Social Attitudes
Peer reviewedLuthy, Melvin J. – College English, 1978
A defense of the grammatical correctness of the sentence, "Let us go then, you and I." (DD)
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Language Usage, Poetry
Peer reviewedStowe, William W. – College English, 1986
Analyzes popular fiction, particularly the detective novel, using Ruth Rendell's "An Unkindness of Ravens" as an example. Calls detective fiction political literature and claims that it gives readers a chance to affirm or criticize the dynamics of the confrontation of society and crime. (SRT)
Descriptors: Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Genres, Literature Appreciation
