Category Archives: Hunter, J. Paul
The Heroic Couplet; Children’s Literature (originally aired as Kids and Couplets)
Paul Hunter [NHC Fellow 1985-86, 1995-96] describes the heroic couplet–“its rhyme, its reason, its artistic and ideological functions in English literature.” [Wayne Pond] Ulrich Knoepflmacher [NHC Fellow 1995-96] “talks about children’s literature and ‘cross-writing’ — a device by which authors … Continue reading
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Tagged English literature, Heroic couplet, Literature, Ninteenth century, Poetry, Victorian
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Theory and Practice
Myra Jehlen and Paul Hunter discuss the impact of theory on modern literary scholarship and criticism. Shannon Ravenel discusses her work as editor of The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties (Houghton Mifflin). 538 – Theory and Practice
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Tagged Literary Criticism
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Literacy Then and Now
A discussion of literacy in history and in contemporary American society. 476 – Literacy Then and Now
Posted in Episodes, Hunter, J. Paul, Price, David E.
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The Rise of the Novel
According to Paul Hunter and Patricia Meyer Spacks, English fiction rose to prominence in the eighteenth century at about the same time that autobiography became important in England’s cultural life, reflecting an interest on the part of the common reader … Continue reading
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Tagged English literature, Fiction, Literary Criticism
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Accounting for the Novel, Part 2 of 2
According to Paul Hunter and Robert ter Horst, modern scholarship now focuses on various cultural as well as specifically literary and aesthetic elements in accounting for the origins and development of the novel. Among such cultural elements are the connections … Continue reading
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Tagged Humanities, Literature, Novels
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Accounting for the Novel, Part 1 of 2
According to Paul Hunter and Robert ter Horst, an understanding of the origins of modern fiction involves various cultural as well as specifically literary issues. Where do novels come from, who writes them, and who reads them? At the time of this interview, Hunter, … Continue reading
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Tagged Humanities, Literature, Novels
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