Michael J Benton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3466835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Benton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Benton |
| SIGNATURE | BENTON M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4323-1824 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography
The Author’s Works (1): Signs of Life?
‘The Life and Works of...’ — this comfortable apposition is a formula often used by literary biographers in the titles of their books but, while the conjunction that links the actual life of the subject with the fictions of his or her imagination can be seen as mere descriptive convenience, it glosses over the ambiguous status of novels, poems and plays as sources of information about an author’s life. What follows attempts to explicate the ambig…
Assessing the Impact of Parliamentary Oversight Committees: The Select Committees in the British House of Commons
Development of Attachment in Romantic Relationship of Young Adults with Different Love Styles
This study reconstructed the participantsâ€TM retrospective experience of how attachment avoidance and attachment anxiety developed during the course of romantic relationships in young adults. Participants (290 undergraduate students) recalled their stories of love relationships that occurred approximately between the ages of 15and19. The feelings of avoidance and anxiety, which were experienced as a result of the events that occurred throughout …
Literary Biography: An Introduction
Canons Ancient and Modern: The texts we teach
This article considers the lists of authors prescribed in the National Curriculum for English against the background of the canon wars in higher education between those who support a unitary canon and their challengers advocating pluralism. The issues of textual choice, literary quality, prescription and recommendation are discussed in the light of a summary of the canon debate presented in the form of nine propositions. The final part of the art…
The Viking Atlas of Evolution
An historical atlas which covers the history and evolution of life on earth, taking a geographical approach to illuminate the spread of species and the varieties of evolution on different continents
Teen Films: An Annotated Bibliography
In the introduction to his book The Road to Romance and Ruin, Jon Lewis points out that over half of the world's population is currently under the age of twenty. This rather startling fact should be enough to make most Hollywood producers drool when they think of the potential profits from a target movie audience. Attracting the largest demographic group is, after all, the quickest way to box-office success. In fact, almost from its beginning, th…
Too Many Books: Book Ownership and Cultural Identity in the 1920s
Too Many Books": Book Ownership and Cultural Identity in the 1920s Megan Benton (bio) As the 1930 Christmas season approached, editor Henry Seidel Canby counseled readers of the Saturday Review of Literature not so much to buy books as to discard them. "There are not, as so many complain, too many good books," Canby announced. Rather, he fumed, there are "too many books published only to be bought" (and, he might have added, bought only to be own…
Anyone for Ekphrasis
Journal Article ANYONE FOR EKPHRASIS? Get access Michael Benton Michael Benton School of Education, University of SouthamptonSouthampton SO17 IBJ, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 37, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 367–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/37.4.367 Published: 01 October 1997
The Self-Conscious Spectator
Journal Article THE SELF-CONSCIOUS SPECTATOR Get access M.G. Benton M.G. Benton School of Education, University of SouthamptonHighfield, Southampton SO9 5NH, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 35, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 361–373, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/35.4.361 Published: 01 October 1995
Young Readers Responding to Poems
1. Exploring Response 2. Close Readings 3. Four Readers' Readings 4. Group Discussions of Poetry 5. Conclusions
Teaching Literature 9-14
Books Reviews
Journal Article BOOKS REVIEWS Get access Fictional Narrative and Truth: An Episttmic Analysis. By L. B. CEBIK. University Press of America. 1984. pp. 250. Paperbound, $12.50. MICHAEL BENTON MICHAEL BENTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 25, Issue 3, SUMMER 1985, Pages 289–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/25.3.289 Published: 01 March 1985
Reading Fiction: Ten Paradoxes
Journal Article READING FICTION: TEN PARADOXES Get access Michael Benton Michael Benton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 22, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1982, Pages 301–310, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/22.4.301 Published: 01 April 1982
"The Agenda Setting Function of the Mass Media At Three Levels of "Information Holding
The objective of this study was to extend the theoretical concept of agenda setting to include three levels of peoples' information holding: (1) awareness of general issues; (2) awareness of proposed solutions; (3) specific knowledge about the proposals. A content analysis of three media and a survey were conducted to examine whether or not agenda setting is operative at Levels 2 and 3, since previous research has consistently shown agenda settin…
Assessing the Impact of Parliamentary Oversight Committees: The Select Committees in the British House of Commons
"The Agenda Setting Function of the Mass Media At Three Levels of "Information Holding
The objective of this study was to extend the theoretical concept of agenda setting to include three levels of peoples' information holding: (1) awareness of general issues; (2) awareness of proposed solutions; (3) specific knowledge about the proposals. A content analysis of three media and a survey were conducted to examine whether or not agenda setting is operative at Levels 2 and 3, since previous research has consistently shown agenda settin…
Development of Attachment in Romantic Relationship of Young Adults with Different Love Styles
This study reconstructed the participantsâ€TM retrospective experience of how attachment avoidance and attachment anxiety developed during the course of romantic relationships in young adults. Participants (290 undergraduate students) recalled their stories of love relationships that occurred approximately between the ages of 15and19. The feelings of avoidance and anxiety, which were experienced as a result of the events that occurred throughout …
Too Many Books: Book Ownership and Cultural Identity in the 1920s
Too Many Books": Book Ownership and Cultural Identity in the 1920s Megan Benton (bio) As the 1930 Christmas season approached, editor Henry Seidel Canby counseled readers of the Saturday Review of Literature not so much to buy books as to discard them. "There are not, as so many complain, too many good books," Canby announced. Rather, he fumed, there are "too many books published only to be bought" (and, he might have added, bought only to be own…
Anyone for Ekphrasis
Journal Article ANYONE FOR EKPHRASIS? Get access Michael Benton Michael Benton School of Education, University of SouthamptonSouthampton SO17 IBJ, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 37, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 367–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/37.4.367 Published: 01 October 1997
"The Agenda Setting Function of the Mass Media At Three Levels of "Information Holding
The objective of this study was to extend the theoretical concept of agenda setting to include three levels of peoples' information holding: (1) awareness of general issues; (2) awareness of proposed solutions; (3) specific knowledge about the proposals. A content analysis of three media and a survey were conducted to examine whether or not agenda setting is operative at Levels 2 and 3, since previous research has consistently shown agenda settin…
Reading Fiction: Ten Paradoxes
Journal Article READING FICTION: TEN PARADOXES Get access Michael Benton Michael Benton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 22, Issue 4, AUTUMN 1982, Pages 301–310, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/22.4.301 Published: 01 April 1982
Books Reviews
Journal Article BOOKS REVIEWS Get access Fictional Narrative and Truth: An Episttmic Analysis. By L. B. CEBIK. University Press of America. 1984. pp. 250. Paperbound, $12.50. MICHAEL BENTON MICHAEL BENTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 25, Issue 3, SUMMER 1985, Pages 289–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/25.3.289 Published: 01 March 1985
Teaching Literature 9-14
Young Readers Responding to Poems
1. Exploring Response 2. Close Readings 3. Four Readers' Readings 4. Group Discussions of Poetry 5. Conclusions
The Self-Conscious Spectator
Journal Article THE SELF-CONSCIOUS SPECTATOR Get access M.G. Benton M.G. Benton School of Education, University of SouthamptonHighfield, Southampton SO9 5NH, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 35, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 361–373, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/35.4.361 Published: 01 October 1995
Teen Films: An Annotated Bibliography
In the introduction to his book The Road to Romance and Ruin, Jon Lewis points out that over half of the world's population is currently under the age of twenty. This rather startling fact should be enough to make most Hollywood producers drool when they think of the potential profits from a target movie audience. Attracting the largest demographic group is, after all, the quickest way to box-office success. In fact, almost from its beginning, th…
Too Many Books: Book Ownership and Cultural Identity in the 1920s
Too Many Books": Book Ownership and Cultural Identity in the 1920s Megan Benton (bio) As the 1930 Christmas season approached, editor Henry Seidel Canby counseled readers of the Saturday Review of Literature not so much to buy books as to discard them. "There are not, as so many complain, too many good books," Canby announced. Rather, he fumed, there are "too many books published only to be bought" (and, he might have added, bought only to be own…
Anyone for Ekphrasis
Journal Article ANYONE FOR EKPHRASIS? Get access Michael Benton Michael Benton School of Education, University of SouthamptonSouthampton SO17 IBJ, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 37, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 367–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/37.4.367 Published: 01 October 1997
The Viking Atlas of Evolution
An historical atlas which covers the history and evolution of life on earth, taking a geographical approach to illuminate the spread of species and the varieties of evolution on different continents
Canons Ancient and Modern: The texts we teach
This article considers the lists of authors prescribed in the National Curriculum for English against the background of the canon wars in higher education between those who support a unitary canon and their challengers advocating pluralism. The issues of textual choice, literary quality, prescription and recommendation are discussed in the light of a summary of the canon debate presented in the form of nine propositions. The final part of the art…
Literary Biography: An Introduction
Development of Attachment in Romantic Relationship of Young Adults with Different Love Styles
This study reconstructed the participantsâ€TM retrospective experience of how attachment avoidance and attachment anxiety developed during the course of romantic relationships in young adults. Participants (290 undergraduate students) recalled their stories of love relationships that occurred approximately between the ages of 15and19. The feelings of avoidance and anxiety, which were experienced as a result of the events that occurred throughout …
Assessing the Impact of Parliamentary Oversight Committees: The Select Committees in the British House of Commons
Towards a Poetics of Literary Biography
The Author’s Works (1): Signs of Life?
‘The Life and Works of...’ — this comfortable apposition is a formula often used by literary biographers in the titles of their books but, while the conjunction that links the actual life of the subject with the fictions of his or her imagination can be seen as mere descriptive convenience, it glosses over the ambiguous status of novels, poems and plays as sources of information about an author’s life. What follows attempts to explicate the ambig…
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