Architectonic Criticism: Re Form in the Literature Classroom

Authors

  • Thomas Earl Young Georgia Gwinnett College (retired)

Keywords:

literary criticsm, formalism, architectonic

Abstract

This article presents an approach to fiction devoted to detailing, visually presenting, and analyzing structural patterns in the literary text. This enhanced formalism will be illustrated with elementary examples ranging from the world of music to the world of the Brothers Grimm. Employing this "architectonic" approach would complement more familiar critical approaches and perhaps, given its more "objective" quality, appeal to the technically oriented student and encourage that student to engage more fully in the literature classroom.

Author Biography

Thomas Earl Young, Georgia Gwinnett College (retired)

I retired from Georgia Gwinnett College as an Associate Professor of English and Interim Associate Dean of the School of Liberal Arts in 2012, having served as a full-time faculty member or administrator at five institutions of higher education over four decades. I have published in the areas of composition, literature, linguistics (usage), and educational administration, and I am working on an article on the phonemic analysis of ads and slogans.
A typewriter divided into red, blue, and yellow, as if through a prism.

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Published

2021-03-22

Issue

Vol. 48 No. 2 (2019): Summer/Fall 2019

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Articles

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