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Reck, Rima Drell – Publications Mod Lang Assn, 1970
Address presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) in Denver, Colorado, December 27, 1969. (DS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Impressionistic Criticism, Literary Criticism, Political Attitudes
Aikins, Mary Patricia Truxler – 1973
This dissertation dealt with the preparation, design, teaching, and evaluation of a course in moral values in contemporary literature. Through lectures, group discussions, and multi-media presentations the course examined the possibility of using the moral approach to literary criticism as a form of analysis for contemporary literature. The course…
Descriptors: Contemporary Literature, Course Content, Course Organization, Doctoral Dissertations
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 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 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 reviewedFagan, Edward R. – High School Journal, 1980
The author notes the growing use of scientific concepts in contemporary experimental novels, as well as the development of structuralism, a method of literary criticism drawing heavily upon the sciences. He suggests that these are valuable trends toward strengthening the bridge between the sciences and the humanities. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Novels, Science Fiction
Peer reviewedMagie, Michael L. – College English, 1977
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Novels, Romanticism
Peer reviewedMcNelly, Cleo – College English, 1977
A critical analysis of the social and rhetorical flaws in the writings of George Orwell. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Models, Teaching Methods
