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Back To Basics: Grammar, Rhetoric And Disciplined Thought, Charles R. Cyr Jan 1975

Back To Basics: Grammar, Rhetoric And Disciplined Thought, Charles R. Cyr

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Speech about the college expository essay, delivered before the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, Missouri, March 14, 1975.

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You Can't Go Home Again: James Baldwin And The South, Daryl Cumber Dance Sep 1974

You Can't Go Home Again: James Baldwin And The South, Daryl Cumber Dance

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James Baldwin, like innumerable other Black artists, has found that in his efforts to express the plight of the Black man in America, he has been forced to deal over and over again with that inescapable dilemma of the Black American - the lack of a sense of a positive self-identity. Time after time in his writings he has shown an awareness of the fact that identity contains, as Erik Erikson so accurately indicates, "a complementarity of past and future both in the individual and in society." Baldwin wrote in "Many Thousands Gone," "We cannot escape our origins, however hard …

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Contemporary Militant Black Humor, Daryl Cumber Dance Jul 1974

Contemporary Militant Black Humor, Daryl Cumber Dance

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Witnessing the continued plight of their black brothers in America, noting the continued strength of racism in this country, and discouraged by the slowness and ineffectiveness of integration, they have become frustrated and completely disillusioned with the promise of American democracy. If Paul Laurence Dunbar might be said to reflect in some of his works the accommodationist views of the leading black spokesman of his times, Booker T. Washington; and if Langston Hughes might generally be viewed as advocating the thoughtful, rational methods of Martin Luther King and the N.A.A.C.P. with their disciplined social protest and their optimistic faith in …

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Who Can Be Taught?, Elaine Chaika Feb 1974

Who Can Be Taught?, Elaine Chaika

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Affective Criticism: Theories Of Emotion And Synaesthesis In The Experience Of Literature, Edward Jayne Feb 1971

Affective Criticism: Theories Of Emotion And Synaesthesis In The Experience Of Literature, Edward Jayne

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The "Affective Fallacy" labeled by Wimsatt and Beardsley and denigrated by an entire generation of critics must be restored'to legitimacy-as probably the most fundamental principle of literature. The effect of a text takes precedence over the objectivity of its "intra-referential":content since this content is meaningful only to the extent that it produces this effect. The concerted effort of formalists to deny or somehow bypass this self-evident axiom has been unique in the history of criticism and may be traced to a variety of causes, not the least of which has been a conservative isolation of literature from its social context. …

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Sentimentalism In Dreiser's Heroines, Carrie And Jennie, Daryl Cumber Dance Dec 1970

Sentimentalism In Dreiser's Heroines, Carrie And Jennie, Daryl Cumber Dance

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Theodore Dreiser is usually hailed as a pioneer of American realism who freed American literature from Victorian restraints, from nineteenth century idealism and optimism, and from the ever-present moralizing of domestic sentimentalism. It is interesting to note, however, that this shockingly modern trailblazer not only stands at the dawn of a new era in literature, but also at the twilight of the old, for in Dreiser is a mixture of both the new realism and naturalism and the old sentimentalism that had dominated American literature from its inception.

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Connecticut English Journal, Spring 1970, Ralph L. Corrigan Ed. Apr 1970

Connecticut English Journal, Spring 1970, Ralph L. Corrigan Ed.

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Connecticut English Journal, Fall 1969, Ralph L. Corrigan Ed. Oct 1969

Connecticut English Journal, Fall 1969, Ralph L. Corrigan Ed.

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