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Fryatt, Norma R. – Horn Book Magazine, 1986
Recommends Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel, which first appeared in l923. (FL)
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Females, Literary Criticism
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Zarefsky, David – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1986
Sketches a brief history of the 1858 debates and analyzes their argumentative patterns. Speculates about the transformation of controversial questions through public debate. (PD)
Descriptors: Debate, Persuasive Discourse, Rhetorical Criticism, United States History
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Wyatt, Robert O.; Badger, David P. – Journalism Quarterly, 1984
Reveals that the direction of a review can have a significant effect on audience interest in and evaluation of a film. (FL)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Content Analysis, Film Criticism, Films
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Lyubenov, Lyuben – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1984
Presents the views of three artists on the translation of poetry. The questions they answer include their opinions of the difference between translation of poetry and the writing of original poems, what type of translation they prefer, and what roles they think inspiration and experience play in the translation of poetry. (SED)
Descriptors: Interviews, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Poets
McDonnell, Christine – Horn Book Magazine, 1984
Notes that "The Stone-Faced Boy" illustrates author Paula Fox's clarity of insight and graceful writing. (FL)
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Literary Criticism
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Crosby, Harry H. – College Composition and Communication, 1976
Describes what 300 titles of published works reveal about the process of writing titles and about writing in general. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
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Magnet, Joseph – College English, 1976
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cultural Influences, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
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Champion, Larry S. – Journal of General Education, 1976
Article analyzed the soliloquies in Hamlet and showed that Shakespeare used the device of the soliloquy not for clarification (as he did elsewhere) but for complication instead, so that the audience is made to see Hamlet's character as consisting of diverse ingredients, a personality fragmented rather than whole. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Characterization, Drama, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices
Pryluck, Calvin – Journal of the University Film Association, 1976
Explores the ethical dimensions of documentary filmmaking by reviewing current documentary practice, analogous issues in the social sciences, and the "right of personality." (MH)
Descriptors: Documentaries, Ethics, Film Criticism, Film Production
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Wilkinson, Charles A. – Central States Speech Journal, 1976
Deals with the study of movements and proposes a specifically rhetorical definition of movements that combines elements of other definitions with original theoretical extension. (MH)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Definitions, Literature Reviews, Rhetoric
Stroud, Scott R. – 2000
This paper examines the Christian Identity artifact, "The Book of Adam," by Dan Gayman. Using narrative criticism, this artifact is shown to construct the white race as "progressing through time, as occupying sacred spatial locations, as essentially chosen by God, and as separate from other races." This narrative blurs the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Usage, Literary Criticism, Racial Relations
Julian, June – Online Submission, 1998
Using exercises based on the stacked mattresses image from the tale of "The Princess and the Pea," combined with Ecker and Kaelin's Aesthetic Inquiry ladder schematic, will help art educators schematize their thinking and talking about art in the classroom. Whether by selecting phenomenology or another philosophical method for navigating…
Descriptors: Art Education, Phenomenology, Art Criticism, Theories
Langton, Jane – Horn Book Magazine, 1973
Discusses the elements that make some children's fiction memorable. (TO)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Fantasy, Fiction
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Withim, Philip – Journal of General Education, 1973
Author explored psychoanalytic criticism and its application to literary works. (RK)
Descriptors: Art, Artists, Creativity, Critical Thinking
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Berlin, Normand – Literature/Film Quarterly, 1973
Analyzes Roman Polanski's cinematic interpretation of Shakespear's "Macbeth" comparing imagery, brutality, and world views. (RB)
Descriptors: Acting, Analytical Criticism, Drama, Films
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