Allen W Porterfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 9251229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen W Porterfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen W |
| FAMILY NAME | Porterfield |
| SIGNATURE | PORTERFIELD A W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
When Boston Took up German
In 1839, Harper & Brothers, then at 82 Cliff Street,' broaght out Morton's Hope: or The Memoirs of a Provincial, by John Lothrop Motley, 2 volumes, 545 pages, approximately 142,000 words. The printer was H. Ludwig then at 72 Vesey Street.2 The work is divided into five books, each captioned by an apposite quotation from one of the world's great writers, and has a total of seventy chapters. This fictionized autobiography grew out of Motley's two s…
Noun Declensions in German and English
THERE has been, in the last two decades, a disheartening tendency among a few teachers of German to treat grammar mincingly. They say: Why drill on the subjunctive and the passive? The student does not grasp the former, and the latter is not much used. They say: Suppose the student is minded to come up with der Messer, die Liffel, das Gabel? He can after all get such food as he needs in a restaurant, or at the campus cafeteria, if the institution…
Scientific German for Intermediate Students
The German Language
Reading Knowledge Requirements and a Translation Service
Where Literary Enthusiasm Failed
Germany’s Disordered Literature
Essay| March 01 1936 Germany’s Disordered Literature Allen W. Porterfield* Allen W. Porterfield* *The writer of this article is Professor of German in the University of West Virginia and author or editor of various works on German literature. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1936) 43 (6): 601–613. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1936.43.6.601 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables…
Seeing the Saw
THE experienced teacher of German in any institution that is set in a reasonably large frame not infrequently finds it necessary to take over a complete section from another colleague; he may also find it desirable to do this, for if there are any two teachers, from the grades to university work in its highest reaches, in whose methods there is not a shred of difference, there is something wrong with both of them. Teaching is a human-all-too-huma…
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Seeing the Saw
THE experienced teacher of German in any institution that is set in a reasonably large frame not infrequently finds it necessary to take over a complete section from another colleague; he may also find it desirable to do this, for if there are any two teachers, from the grades to university work in its highest reaches, in whose methods there is not a shred of difference, there is something wrong with both of them. Teaching is a human-all-too-huma…
Germany’s Disordered Literature
Essay| March 01 1936 Germany’s Disordered Literature Allen W. Porterfield* Allen W. Porterfield* *The writer of this article is Professor of German in the University of West Virginia and author or editor of various works on German literature. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1936) 43 (6): 601–613. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1936.43.6.601 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables…
Where Literary Enthusiasm Failed
The German Language
Reading Knowledge Requirements and a Translation Service
Scientific German for Intermediate Students
Noun Declensions in German and English
THERE has been, in the last two decades, a disheartening tendency among a few teachers of German to treat grammar mincingly. They say: Why drill on the subjunctive and the passive? The student does not grasp the former, and the latter is not much used. They say: Suppose the student is minded to come up with der Messer, die Liffel, das Gabel? He can after all get such food as he needs in a restaurant, or at the campus cafeteria, if the institution…
When Boston Took up German
In 1839, Harper & Brothers, then at 82 Cliff Street,' broaght out Morton's Hope: or The Memoirs of a Provincial, by John Lothrop Motley, 2 volumes, 545 pages, approximately 142,000 words. The printer was H. Ludwig then at 72 Vesey Street.2 The work is divided into five books, each captioned by an apposite quotation from one of the world's great writers, and has a total of seventy chapters. This fictionized autobiography grew out of Motley's two s…
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