Structural Patterns and Principles of Design: An Archetypal Analysis of Four Selected Literary Works and Implications for Teaching Literature in the Secondary Schools

This dissertation deals with the problem of literary study in the secondary schools. The criticism and teaching of literature has been based on the work or its relationship to the world, the author, or the reader. Literary meaning is often sought outside the work itself. Close explication of discrete works is important at times, but it does not add to students' knowledge of literature as a unified and conceptual whole. In order to teach the form and structure of literature, teachers can consider the teaching of archetypal literary criticism. Each literary work is treated as an object of art: one that is part of a total design or literary universe.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Turner, Dixie Mae

Contributors dc:contributor

• Walker, Jerry L.

• Education, Language and Literature
• Education, Secondary
• Literature, American

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8815433

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69182