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Direct linkPirrie, Anne – Scottish Educational Review, 2018
This article offers some insights into the early life and educational experiences of the writer and educationalist Anna (Nan) Shepherd (1893-1981), with a view to exploring her legacy for contemporary educators and academics--and indeed for all those who have a stake in education. Nan Shepherd's example suggests that it is only by contemplating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Philosophy, Civics, Conservation (Environment)
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
Download full textEhrich, William E. – 1993
Noting that the first adult fiction detective novel by an African-American was published in 1932, this bibliography lists and discusses 72 novels either written by African-Americans or featuring African-American detectives. The bibliography is divided into four sections: the first section discusses detective fiction written by African-American…
Descriptors: Authors, Blacks, Higher Education, Literary Genres
Peer reviewedFriedman, Alan J. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1975
Suggests that the excitement of 20th century science has had its truly important influence on the forms of literature--as a rich new source of metaphor, analogy, and style--and even on the structure of fiction. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Literature, Physics
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 reviewedWedel, Alfred R. – Revista de Occidente, 1973
Descriptors: Cultural Enrichment, Higher Education, Humanities, Philosophy
