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Reichard, Daniel P. – Engl J, 1969
Descriptors: Biographies, Journalism, Twentieth Century Literature, Writing (Composition)
Peer reviewedFagan, Edward R. – Journal of General Education, 1971
Descriptors: Creativity, Literary Devices, Novels, Twentieth Century Literature
Jennings, Shirley; Chambers, Dewey – Elem Engl, 1969
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Literary Criticism, Literature, Novels
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 reviewedKolbert, Jack – French Review, 1976
The role of America and Americans in the work and life of author Andre Maurois. (Text is in French.) (DB)
Descriptors: Biographies, French Literature, Literary History, Twentieth Century Literature
Peer reviewedGillikin, Dure Jo – Community Review, 1984
Examines the images of women in the poetry of Randall Jarrell, focusing on poems portraying women with little chance of true fulfillment in traditional roles as wives and mothers, and who lose what status they have through the inevitable loss of sexual attractiveness. (DMM)
Descriptors: Females, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Poets
Healey, Clifford – Use of English, 1987
Discusses twentieth century literature and attempts to define modernism, concentrating on modernist literature's linguistic radicalism. (SRT)
Descriptors: Language Usage, Literary Criticism, Modernism, Twentieth Century Literature
Peer reviewedMarkham, E. A. – Visible Language, 1989
Argues that the creative procedures of writing, performing, and interpreting poetry are subtly interrelated. Illustrates this argument with examples from the author's own poetry. (MM)
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Oral Interpretation, Poetry, Twentieth Century Literature
Peer reviewedAustin, Norman – Journal of General Education, 1988
Questions the integrity of Meursault in Albert Camus's "The Stranger." Discusses Meursault's dissociation from his feelings, relationship with his mother, reactions or lack of response to events in his life, trial, and encounter with the priest in prison. Explores the concepts of myth and archetype in terms of the novel and its ideology.…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Mythology, Reader Response, Twentieth Century Literature
Steiner, Carl – 1978
Literature's intellectual and spiritual independence and great public appeal afford it great potential as a moving force in today's increasingly secular, unphilosophical, and nonliterary world, which nonetheless longs for harmony, unity of purpose, and spiritual oneness. Although political oppression and literary commercialism threaten literature…
Descriptors: Literature, Philosophy, Social Problems, Twentieth Century Literature
Wentink, Linda, Comp. – 1979
This indexed, annotated bibliography of 337 English language secondary sources for the study of Urdu literature since 1947 (excluding translations and words on Urdu language) attempts to give comprehensive coverage for periodicals, monographs, and compilations published since 1947. With a few exceptions, citations from weekly or daily publications…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Periodicals, Reference Materials, Twentieth Century Literature
Download full textDavis, James E. – English Journal, 1967
To determine present trends in junior novels, researchers compared 23 novels written after 1959 with characteristics of junior novels written before that date. The following trends were identified: (1) The action in the majority of novels occurs over a few months. (2) Simple and compound sentences often connected by "and" predominate. (3) The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, English Instruction, Fiction, Literature
Longman, Stanley V. – 1974
The Theatre of the Grotesque, a dramatic movement in Italy from 1916 until 1930, grew directly out of Pirandello's concept of "umorismo," the painful laugh accompanying the tragic sense of bewilderment at the incongruities and cruelties of life. Growing first of all from a reaction against positivism and its theatrical counterpart,…
Descriptors: Drama, Imagery, Italian Literature, Symbolism
PDF pending restorationSpottswood, Sara – 1974
Four twentieth century playwrights--Pirandello, Giraudoux, O'Neill, and Albee--differed in their solutions to the human dilemma and in their philosophic apprehensions of human dilemma, but all four showed interest in the basic concerns of all humanity: body and soul, appearance and reality, the real and the ideal. Albee, the only one of the four…
Descriptors: Authors, Drama, Fantasy, Literary Criticism
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
