Michael Benton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3756541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Benton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Benton |
| SIGNATURE | BENTON M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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…
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…
Young Readers Responding to Poems
1. Exploring Response 2. Close Readings 3. Four Readers' Readings 4. Group Discussions of Poetry 5. Conclusions
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
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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
Young Readers Responding to Poems
1. Exploring Response 2. Close Readings 3. Four Readers' Readings 4. Group Discussions of Poetry 5. Conclusions
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…
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
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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