Research in the Teaching of English Jan 1976

Critique of a Short Story: An Application of the Elements of Writing about a Literary Work

Elizabeth Cole Morris IJ Research (United States)

Abstract

Two years later Stanley Edgar Hyman roundly voiced the wish for an ideal integration of all modern critical methods into one super method (Hyman, 1955) [p. 388]. Near the end of the next decade, in 1968, a pamphlet appeared under the sponsorship of the NCTE Committee on Research, Alan G. Purves's Elements of Writing about a Literary Work: A Study of Response to Literature. This was a schema which organized statements respondents made about literary works into four main categories:

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Research in the Teaching of English
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1976-01-01
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10.58680/rte197620037
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