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1. Forty Years on: Touchstones Now (EJ792472)

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Author(s):

Benton, Michael; Benton, Peter

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Children's Literature in Education, v39 n2 p135-140 Jun 2008

Pub Date:

2008-06-00

Pub Type(s):

Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

Peer-Reviewed:

Yes

Descriptors:
Anthologies; Poetry; Childrens Literature; Politics of Education; Social Influences; Foreign Countries

Abstract:
The "Touchstones" series of poetry anthologies was first published in the UK between 1968 and 1972 in five volumes. Over a million copies and three revisions later, "Touchstones Now 11-14" appeared in the summer of 2008. Few, if any, books for the classroom can claim such longevity. In this article, the compilers of the anthologies, Michael and Peter Benton, look back over the 40 years of the ser Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Full Abstract

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2. Reading Biography (EJ772117)

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Benton, Michael

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Journal of Aesthetic Education, v41 n3 p77-88 Fall 2007

Pub Date:

2007-00-00

Pub Type(s):

Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

Peer-Reviewed:

Yes

Descriptors:
Biographies; Aesthetics; Aesthetic Education; Authors; Poets; Writing (Composition); Reader Text Relationship; Empathy; Reading Instruction

Abstract:
Biography is a hybrid. It is history crossed with narrative. The biographer has to present the available facts of the life yet shape their arbitrariness, untidiness, and incompleteness into an engaging whole. The readerly appeal lies in the prospect both of gaining documentary information, scrupulously researched and plausibly interpreted, and of experiencing the aesthetic pleasure of reading a w Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Full Abstract

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3. Literary Biography: The Cinderella of Literary Studies (EJ720151)

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Author(s):

Benton, Michael

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Journal of Aesthetic Education, v39 n3 p44-57 Fall 2005

Pub Date:

2005-00-00

Pub Type(s):

Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

Peer-Reviewed:

Yes

Descriptors:
Authors; Biographies; Narration; Comparative Analysis; Literary Criticism; Educational Benefits

Abstract:
This article begins by contrasting the popularity of biography in the general culture with the neglect of literary biography as a branch of literary studies. The argument follows from the hybrid character of a genre in which history is crossed with narrative. Using concepts drawn from narratology, it shows how biography's handling of life stories is both like and unlike that of fiction. Narrative Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Full Abstract

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4. Canons Ancient and Modern: The Texts We Teach. (EJ614139)

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Author(s):

Benton, Michael

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Educational Review, v52 n3 p269-77 Nov 2000

Pub Date:

2000-00-00

Pub Type(s):

Journal Articles

Peer-Reviewed:

N/A

Descriptors:
British National Curriculum; Elementary Secondary Education; English Literature; Foreign Countries; Politics of Education

Abstract:
Presents propositions about the literary canon in the British National Curriculum: it betrays sacred origins, it is a social construct, its control reflects political power, it is not inevitable, and neither the unitary nor the pluralistic model is without flaws. A middle ground between centralized prescription and free for all is advocated. (SK)

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5. The Image of Childhood: Representations of the Child in Painting and Literature, 1700-1900. (EJ525785)

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Benton, Michael

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Children's Literature in Education, v27 n1 p35-60 Mar 1996

Pub Date:

1996-00-00

Pub Type(s):

Reports - Evaluative; Historical Materials; Journal Articles

Peer-Reviewed:

N/A

Descriptors:
Art History; Children; Childrens Literature; Eighteenth Century Literature; Higher Education; Ideology; Nineteenth Century Literature; Painting (Visual Arts); Romanticism

Abstract:
Examines issues about the representation of children in art during the 18th and 19th centuries: (1) main representations during this period; (2) principal influences affecting the construction of these images; and (3) whether the verbal and visual arts conceptualize childhood in similar or different ways. Looks at three influences on writers and painters: ideology, artistic convention, and money. Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Full Abstract

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6. The Self-Conscious Spectator. Occasional Papers, 30. (ED401212)

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Benton, Michael

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Pub Date:

1994-12-00

Pub Type(s):

Information Analyses; Reports - Descriptive

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Descriptors:
Aesthetic Education; Aesthetics; Classroom Techniques; Critical Reading; Foreign Countries; Literature; Visual Arts

Abstract:
This paper addresses the issue of aesthetic response in relation to both literature and painting. Although "spectator theory" crops up in various forms in accounts of what happens when one reads stories or looks at pictures, the original intention of accommodating both under a single theory proved too complex. The paper, therefore, is confined to the visual arts. Nonetheless, English teachers who Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Full Abstract

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7. Education and the Sister Arts. Occasional Papers, 35. (ED401210)

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Benton, Michael

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N/A

Pub Date:

1994-12-00

Pub Type(s):

Information Analyses; Guides - Non-Classroom

Peer-Reviewed:

N/A

Descriptors:
Aesthetics; Art; Foreign Countries; Humanities; Interdisciplinary Approach; Literature; Painting (Visual Arts); Teaching Methods

Abstract:
This paper is divided into two parts. The first part, "Speaking Pictures and Visual Poems," briefly considers the origin of the term "sister arts." Discussed are the three main features of the historical relationship between painting and literature in the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain and draws out their educational implications. Part 2, "Teaching the Sister Arts," deals more explicitly with Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Full Abstract

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8. Reader Response Criticism in Children's Literature. Occasional Papers, 15. (ED390045)

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Author(s):

Benton, Michael

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N/A

Pub Date:

1993-10-00

Pub Type(s):

Reports - General; Information Analyses

Peer-Reviewed:

N/A

Descriptors:
Childrens Literature; Elementary Secondary Education; Individual Development; Literacy; Literary Criticism; Literature Appreciation; Reader Response; Reader Text Relationship; Student Needs

Abstract:
Since the 1950s, literary study has experienced a major paradigm shift. M. H. Abrams' notion that the author, reader, and the signified world are arranged like satellites around a stable text has been succeeded by one that acknowledges the reader to be a central determinant in any "reading" of a text. Five themes related to reader response criticism and its pedagogical applications have emerged l Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Full Abstract

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9. Literature Teaching and the National Curriculum. Occasional Papers, 14. (ED390044)

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Benton, Michael

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N/A

Pub Date:

1993-10-00

Pub Type(s):

Opinion Papers

Peer-Reviewed:

N/A

Descriptors:
Academic Standards; Adolescent Literature; British National Curriculum; Childrens Literature; Elementary Secondary Education; English Curriculum; Foreign Countries; Government Role; Guidelines; Language Arts; Literary Criticism; Literature Appreciation; Reader Response; Student Needs

Abstract:
The institutional view of literature in the National Curriculum of Great Britain shows a dramatic belittlement in its revised version. It lacks a coherent literary or pedagogical rationale and substitutes a functional one in which over-simplification purports to be clarification. The institution is primarily concerned to define English literary heritage; it is more interested in control than in c Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Full Abstract

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10. Reading and Teaching Literature. Occasional Papers, 13. (ED388989)

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Benton, Michael

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Pub Date:

1993-01-00

Pub Type(s):

Reports - Research; Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers

Peer-Reviewed:

N/A

Descriptors:
Class Activities; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Literature Appreciation; Poetry; Reader Response; Secondary Education; Student Motivation; Writing Research

Abstract:
Educators can help students develop enthusiastic, committed readers who are mentally sharp by developing approaches to literature teaching that are based upon informed concepts of reading and response rather than upon conventional inherited ideas of comprehension and criticism. A study of how 15-year-old students responded to a poem indicated that the substance of the responses shared common elem Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Full Abstract

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