NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 8 results Save | Export
Arikan, Arda – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of this paper is to show, through applicable activities; how the use of visuals can alter the way we teach literature in English as a foreign language classrooms. I designed a syllabus for the course titled "Introduction to British Literature I and II" in which visual materials were used to teach some major literary terms and…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Internet, English Literature, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Xu, Xiang – English Language Teaching, 2009
This paper ranges widely to track of the evolution of Hardy's view on love and marriage, and analyzes two reasons why this unique view developed: one is Nature; another is Time.
Descriptors: Marriage, Intimacy, Intellectual History, Social Systems
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Harris, Wendell V. – University of Toronto Quarterly, 1971
A detailed analysis of the prose style used by John Ruskin in The Stones of Venice. (SP)
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Nineteenth Century Literature, Textual Criticism
Goldstein, Norma Walrath – 1989
Proposing that Thomas Hardy's fiction exhibits strong Gothic sensibilities which offer insight into his artistic vision and add to the power of his fiction, creating a new form of the Gothic, a Victorian Gothic, this dissertation reassesses the Gothic strains in Hardy's fiction. The dissertation is in eight chapters: (1) Introduction to Hardy's…
Descriptors: English Literature, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Vajda, Gyorgy M. – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1980
Examines the background to and the stylistic characteristics of the Art Nouveau movement in its literary and artistic manifestations, emphasizing its nature as a synthesis of various contemporary, artistic, and intellectual trends. (SJL)
Descriptors: Architecture, Art, Art History, Literary History
Hewitt, Douglas – 1972
This book considers the right and the wrong ways to approach different types of novels. Trollope's "The Way We Live Now" is the starting point for chapters dealing with the conventions of realism as they are revealed in the presentation of characters, in the novelists' language, and in the tension between the autonomy of character and the demands…
Descriptors: Characterization, English, Language Usage, Literary Criticism
Piper, Henry Dan – 1977
From colonial days onward, colloquial speech was looked down on as inappropriate for serious writing, but with the publication of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," American colloquial style was raised to the level of high art. English teachers should encourage students to build on their own colloquial speech in their writing, rather…
Descriptors: Black History, Black Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Weintraub, Stanley, Ed. – 1967
The selections in this collection pertain to the predicaments faced by the biographer who must discover what he believes is the truth and then use this material to create a work of compelling interest. Arnold L. Fein, J. H. Plumb, and Hesketh Pearson present observations on the biographer's dilemma: the difficulty of determining the borderline…
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature