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Download full textHall, Arethusa – John P. Jewett & Co., 1850
This textbook is a reader that aims to interest the youthful mind, furnish scope for effective reading, and facilitate study of literature and the history of literature. Many pieces are suitable for declamation.
Descriptors: Textbooks, High School Students, Literature Appreciation, Literary Genres
Said, Edward W. – 1994
Growing out of a series of lectures given at universities in the United States, Canada, and England, this book reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time. It draws dramatic connections between the imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it, describing a general pattern of relationships between the…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Imperialism
Giorgetti, Dala, Ed.; Bonardi, Carlo, Ed. – 1982
Produced on the hundredth anniversary of "Pinocchio" in an attempt to draw a comparison of the books for children and young people produced between the end of the eighteenth and the end of the nineteenth centuries in various countries, this catalog, primarily in Italian, begins with a bilingual (Italian and English) discussion of children's…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Global Approach
Thompson, David W., Ed.; And Others – 1983
The 33 essays that make up this volume examine the history of literature in performance from five perspectives: (1) language, (2) popular culture, (3) teaching, (4) theory, and (5) entertainment. The essays in the first section explore the basic perspective of oral performance as a factor in the development of languages themselves and their…
Descriptors: Authors, Classical Literature, Communication (Thought Transfer), Diachronic Linguistics
