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	"Didacticism in Fay Welson's Letters to Alice:Constructions of Instruction" by Vanessa Manhire
		Didacticism is an important aspect of this novel for both the internal reader (Alice) and the external reader.
		Didacticism requires that one opinion only is foregrounded, and since the letters are all to, rather than from Alice, readers are encouraged to accept Fay's judgments.
		Since didacticism is in itself a struggle for power, the letter form, with its constant interplay between reading and writing, between power and vulnerability, is an ideal vehicle for the assertion of opinions.
	www.otago.ac.nz /DeepSouth/vol2no1/ltoa.html (4182 words)

	Curiosity as didacticism in The Old Curiosity Shop Novel: A Forum on Fiction - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles Dickens was both a frequent critic of didacticism in fiction and a novelist widely perceived in his time as a didactic writer.
		In attacking this logic, however, Dickens does not necessarily imply that all kinds of fictional didacticism are morally suspect.
		I will contend that he perfected this new form of didacticism in The Old Curiosity Shop, a novel that makes pointed reference to the influential didactic genre of religious fiction by including an effigy of its most successful practitioner, Hannah More.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3643/is_200010/ai_n8913618 (586 words)

	WWW:BTB -- Education: Conclusions
		We have seen that the shadow of didacticism permeates much of the educational technology applications in typical use today.
		Didacticism does not fit well with the open-ended, flexible nature of the computer, and so, as the computer moves towards a central point within the curriculum, didacticism will likely have to move aside to accommodate it.
		Thus, it may be that technology will force the issue in the ongoing issue of constructivism versus didacticism, giving the upper hand to the former which, for a multitude of reasons already examined, is a more natural partner for technology.
	ei.cs.vt.edu /book/chap6/conclusions.html (646 words)

	Taking a Stroll Through Time Within the Realm of Greek Children's Literature
		During the 19th Century, Greek literature was characterised by patriotic elation, religiousness, and didacticism and this in turn was used as literature for children.
		Towards the end of the century, various poetic collections and prose written especially for young readers (but with the same morphological and ideological elements as those of "adult" literature) began to appear.
		Thus, texts for children written towards the end of the 19th Century, were free of unadulterated didacticism as well as contexts of religious morality.
	www.angelfire.com /pe/GrChildLit/TimeStroll.html (1127 words)

	Review Articles: November 1989
		Pedagogy becomes the door through which scientific discourse is inserted into literary discourse, buffered by a series of textual devices that Evans enumerates in his last chapter in order to maintain the reader's identification with traditional literary motifs and plot structures like the heroic quest, the rite of passage, or the initiatory journey.
		However, the more such didacticism is mediated through the fictional characters in this type of exposition, the more direct its impact on the average reader, and ultimately, the less polarized the realms of science and fiction themselves (p.
		Compared with the fine focus of Evans's study of didacticism in the scientific novel, the collection of essays by various hands, Modernités de Jules Verne, is an iconoclastic ensemble of ideas with no collectively definitive or restrictive boundaries.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/reviews_pages/r49.htm (3129 words)

	Alice Cary (1820-1871)
		Students are turned off by what they perceive as her didacticism, the morals attached to the ends of the stories.
		She can be compared with nineteenth-century women writers like Kirkland for her use of realism and for her commitment to telling the woman's side of the story.
		She can be most interestingly compared to Emily Dickinson in her ability to place herself and her imagination at the center of her work.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/cary.html (1469 words)

	SERIOUS COMEDY OF TWELFTH NIGHT: DARK DIDACTICISM IN ILLYRIA, THE Renascence - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Examining Shakespearean drama through the lens of Twelfth Night, then, we can respond to Everett's question as follows: a dark didacticism, an urgent sense that life must be lived well because it is short, often underlies Shakespeare's plays, and this principle, at least in part, accounts for the seriousness with which we regard Shakespeare's comedies.
		One critic who does speak of didacticism in his work is John Hollander, author of "Twelfth Night and the Morality of Indulgence." In this essay Hollander asserts that there is a "moral process" at work in this play: characters indulge themselves to their hearts' content, eventually purging themselves of at least some undesirable elements (221-222).
		The Action of Twelfth Night is indeed that of a Revels, a suspension of mundane affairs during a brief epoch in a temporary world of indulgence, a land full of food, drink, love, play, disguise and music.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3777/is_200310/ai_n9314348 (1081 words)

	Defending the Imagination: Charles Dickens, Children's Literature, and the Fairy Tale Wars
		Maria Edgeworth's The Purple Jar (1801) is an example of the tempered didacticism which grew more prevalent toward the end of the eighteenth century, but the forces of literature-as-indoctrination remained very powerful until well into the nineteenth century.
		While its influence waned somewhat, didacticism in children's literature is still a force to be reckoned with even today.
		In terms of societal influences on the children's literature of the nineteenth century, it should be noted here that class distinctions in Britain had been quite rigid until the late eighteenth century.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/dickens/pva/pva25.html (966 words)

	Introductory Lecture on Children's & Adol Lit
		Authors of mainstream adult literature also tend to include elements of didacticism in their works, but they can afford to be less overt in their didacticism because they believe that their intended audience’s intellectual and moral development is already complete.
		Peck's Red-headed Boy, where a gang of youths is shown tying a stick of dynamite to a stray mutt's tail and shouting with glee as "the sky rained dog.'" Clearly, didacticism was increasingly a tempered presence in American children’s fiction.
		Didacticism: The idea that a work of literature must teach moral lessons.
	homepages.wmich.edu /~tarboxg/Introductory_Lecture_on_Children's_&_Adol_Lit.html (4459 words)

	Barbara Foley, "Art or Propaganda"? Chapter 4 of 'Radical Representations'
		Rahv and Phelps may have spearheaded the attack on overt didacticism and given currency to the term "leftism" to denote a multitude of didactic sins.
		Furthermore, the U.S. critics' antipathy to overt didacticism was not simply a manifestation of a characteristically American resistance to theory.
		The antipathy to overt didacticism shared by most 1930s Marxists -- Soviet, German, and American alike-was based upon the doctrine that lit- / 155 /erature is an essentially cognitive rather than agitational type of discourse.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /holbein/439/bf/artorpropaganda.html (10410 words)

	Erik's Rants and Recipes: April 2004 Archives
		So I came up with what I think is the simplest way to describe it: An attempt to use the pictorial medium of painting primarily to convey an argument (or subject) that is better made with words.
		Didacticism is an error because it wastes time.
		Now, we can fight didacticism by attempting to reduce the argument to something that can be realized in paint, but then we either are back to preaching to the choir or we are in the dangerous territory of emotionalizing important issues without dealing with the rational basis of them.
	www.pinkmochi.com /eriksrant/archives/2004_04.html (8712 words)

	Didacticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Didacticism is an artistic philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art.
		Didactic art should not primarily "entertain" or pursue the subjective goals of the artist.
		Contrarily, Edgar Allan Poe called didacticism the worst of "heresies" in his essay The Poetic Principle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Didacticism (266 words)

	FIPRESCI - Festival Reports - Zanzibar 2005 - Adaptability and Didacticism
		The dialogue is sung and the film is interspersed with choreographed numbers, but the rhythm sags and the satire on the abuse and corruption of power is forced and skin-deep.
		There seems to be a prevalent tendency towards didacticism in African cinema, especially in those films from countries with fewer productions.
		But they certainly reflect the innumerable social problems plaguing their individual countries, and with their naive happy endings, the simple goodwill of the African people for a better future.
	www.fipresci.org /festivals/archive/2005/zanzibar/adaptability_licheukto.htm (902 words)

	didacticism - OneLook Dictionary Search
		We found 8 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word didacticism:
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		Didacticism : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=didacticism (106 words)

	Floridian: The ironic eye
		Artists create perspectives on African colonialism that are tinted with tragedy, didacticism and beauty mixed with sadness.
		And in choosing only art and examples of ethnography created by cameras, the organizers were able to set up all those contrasts with a kind of shorthand.
		Didactic, yes, and didacticism is necessary to an exhibition such as "The Field's Edge," but what's more important is to open your mind to the unique ways nine artists filter the world through a lens.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/11/10/news_pf/Floridian/The_ironic_eye.shtml (920 words)

	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today
		Even assuming didacticism is the principal agenda for a playwright, both intellectual and emotional appeals are surely functioning to various degrees towards that end.
		In taking issue with Heath, Croally implicitly claims didacticism is only an intellectual exercise.
		The conclusion (249-258; 'As if war had given a lecture') returns to this, repeating parallels that had been made earlier with the Thucydidean account of Corcyra (257: 'a central text for my thesis').
	www.didaskalia.net /issues/vol2no3/croally.html (861 words)

	Chemistry Didacticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		.The objective of these seminars aimed at Secondary Education Teachers of Physics and Chemistry is to boost scientific research and didacticism within the field of Chemistry, keeping them in touch with some of the best professionals, who will submit results of recent research works.
		All the members are national and internationally well-known academicians and researchers on Didacticism of Chemistry.
		Carles Furió Más, Ph.D. Professor on Didacticism of Experimental Sciences at the University of Valencia.
	www.ua.es /en/ice/form_profes/didacticaquimica.html (1146 words)

	Didacticism
		However, he also faults Kingsley for neglecting his novel writing in favor of the pursuit of his religious and educational aims that led him to take "the short cuts of melodrama and allegory" (256).
		Horsman also criticizes the didacticism pervading Kingsley's novels though he acknowledges that despite its strong didactic elements The Water-Babies comes closest to a work of the imagination.
		Sermons ; Preacher, Kingsley as ; Didacticism ; Religion.
	www2.bc.edu /~rappleb/kingsley/KDidacticism.html (676 words)

	Research
		The project starts from the awareness that children's literature in the West has its origin in didacticism, and most often in a specifically Christian didacticism.
		Bible tales for children and primer sentences ("In Adam's fall/We sinned all") are among the earliest literary efforts aimed specifically, and exclusively, at children.
		Crossan argues for recapturing the parable as parable--that is, exploring its open-endedness and challenges to orthodoxy rather than its "meaning" in a world which has already known its interpretation.
	www.richmond.edu /~egruner/research.html (558 words)

	§35. Didacticism. IV. The New South: Lanier. Vol. 16. Early National Literature, Part II; Later National ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Cambridge History > Early National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I > The New South: Lanier > Didacticism
		Indeed, it must be confessed that Lanier’s thought is liable on analysis to be found commonplace and prosaic.
		This quality is partly due to a didacticism that issued from an unswerving devotion to the ideal.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/226/1935.html (278 words)

	Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)
		To make the sensational story of the "ruin" of an innocent girl palatable to readers steeped in Puritan thought, early novelists emphasized the factual and educative nature of their works.
		Alexander Cowie in The Rise of the American Novel (1948) says that didacticism was, in fact, a " sine qua non of the early novel."
		Although the novel as genre had come into its own by the time Foster wrote The Coquette, authors continued to claim basis in fact in order to justify the publication of risqué materials.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/foster.html (1306 words)

	Introduction
		I accept Le Guin's didacticism as a given in her writing, but I knew enough people find the word "didacticism" negative that I avoided it in my title.
		The problem with most didactic works I've encountered is that the teachers are cock-sure that they have Truth and are duty-bound to ram it down the throats of children and the unwashed masses.
		So instead of coming up with long phrases modifying "didacticism," I offer the image of this book's title: Coyote, the great Trickster figure, teaching in raucous antiphony and polyphony.
	wiz.cath.vt.edu /sfra/Coyote/intro.htm (4223 words)

	Review of Sheri S. Tepper's Gibbon's Decline and Fall
		A review of this book has to be also situated in the debate about didacticism and ideology.
		I want to say that Gibbon's Decline and Fall had too much of Tepper's didacticism in it to be a worthwhile book.
		To say that any didacticism is bad is the worst kind of didacticism of all.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/gibbonsdecline.htm (1326 words)

	Book Review by Chris Lott
		Scarlet Apples and Cream is a book with an overt message (in fact, many of them) that is not often clouded or otherwise obscured by metaphor or fresh use of the language.
		It is not that I disagree with what Vanderkleed is saying, only that I find myself underwhelmed with the manner in which she is saying it.
		There are many poems that I admire from writers as different as Blake and cummings, or Frost and Kinnell which have a distinct message inherent in them-- but these poets balance (or overbalance) this tendency with fresh and imaginative uses of language and new descriptions of familiar objects.
	www.eclectica.org /v1n5/apples.html (698 words)

	didacticism definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		didacticism definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)
		the welcome absence of didacticism in modern poetry
		Everest: Beyond the Limit on the Discovery Channel
	encarta.msn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /dictionary_1861604551/didacticism.html (104 words)

	The Extraordinary Libraries of Jules Verne
		They serve not only as the Hetzel-mandated “porte-paroles” for the transmission of scientific didacticism, but also as a means whereby the practical usefulness of such knowledge may be dramatically underscored.
		In general, such moments of didacticism fill the “holes” in the narrative—those moments when the heroes are not actively exploring, fighting for their lives, conducting experiments, or rescuing those in peril.
		For example, if the narrative format is basically that of a “robinsonnade” (Ile mystérieuse, Deux ans de vacances, Hector Servadac), mimesis dictates that during periods of inclement weather the protagonists remain in their cave or other shelter.
	jv.gilead.org.il /evans/library.esp.html (3778 words)

	Writing photo captions for the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There is (Sontag’s word) a "didacticism" [7] in the whole enterprise of photography, as there is in the associated enterprise of captioning photographs.
		Our point is that photographers, writers, and editors should avoid extremely didactic captions that, in the making of moral observations, cease to inform.
		Another example, in addition to Sontag’s, of didacticism in captioning was provided by Alan Trachtenberg (1989).
	www.firstmonday.org /issues/issue8_9/garner/index.html (3293 words)

	Didacticism and the Political Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In reading Moll Flanders through Speare's eyes, "we watch the infinite misery of a sinner who, after arriving at Newgate, gets no satisfaction from repentance when she knows that it has come after the power of sinning further has already been removed from her" (360).
		Literary movements that became powerful during the Cold War such as Modernism and New Criticism have been quick to dismiss just this sort of didacticism.
		In emphasizing the didactic function of literature as he did, Speare unknowingly left himself vulnerable to later critics, who could blame him for defining the political novel in an anti-literary or anti-aesthetical way.
	www.victorianweb.org /genre/jwb2.html (390 words)

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