Impact of Literary Works upon College Students

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1127-1130
Author(s):  
Peter Ebersole
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Behavioral Effects ◽  
Cognitive Effects ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Aesthetic Style ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Behavioral Impact

The present study attempted to provide empirical evidence for what type of impact, if any, is reported by college students concerning their reading of literary works they consider important. The effects reported were grouped into three major categories: no effect, behavioral effects, and cognitive effects, the latter being the most frequently reported. The results provide support for both the aesthetic (style-oriented) and moralistic (content-oriented) interpretation of the value of literature. Justification of literature might be most fruitfully approached via cognitive rather than behavioral impact.

scholarly journals An Investigation on College Students’ Basic Aesthetic Quality and the Needs of Aesthetic Education Curriculum—Empirical Evidence from Ten Universities Data in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Zezhou Ye ◽  
◽  
Hui Xiang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Aesthetic Education ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
University Courses ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Aesthetic Consciousness ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
And Behavior

The research defines the basic aesthetic qualities and divides them into three parts: aesthetic consciousness, common sense, and behavior. Empirical evidence from more than 1000 college students of ten universities showed that many students still lack basic aesthetic knowledge and skills, and there are also significant differences in gender, location, and qualification. Therefore, college students have a relatively large demand for aesthetic education curriculum, especially in the arts. But obviously, the current aesthetic education curriculums in colleges and universities cannot meet the needs of students, and it is even more difficult to guarantee the aesthetic ability of students who lack art education in primary and secondary schools. Therefore, it is necessary to make up for deficiency in university courses, and to carry out professional-based and even interdisciplinary and cross-border aesthetic courses can achieve the goals of aesthetic education in universities.

scholarly journals ‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in Literature and History

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25
Author(s):  
Siobhan Talbott
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
War In Literature ◽  
Historical Fictions

This article examines a range of fictional literature – poetry, prose, play and song produced between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries – that represents aspects of the Thirty Years’ War, a conflict fought in Europe from 1618 to 1648. Depiction of the Thirty Years’ War in literary works is compared to that found in empirical historical evidence and historians’ analyses. It is concluded that historical fictions offer a different, but equally valid, account of the conflict to academic histories, and that by using historical fictions and empirical evidence together, a more holistic picture of events is offered than academic histories alone provide.

scholarly journals Differences in Entrepreneurial Skills of College Students in the Mexican Intercultural Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Marco Alberto Nunez Ramirez ◽  
Teodoro Rafael Wendlandt Amezaga ◽  
Maria Trinidad Alvarez Medina ◽  
Jorge Ortega Arreola
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
The One

The purpose of this study is to describe the development of entrepreneurial skills of college students in the intercultural context of Mexico. By a non-probability sampling method, a sample of 120 students from an intercultural institution of higher education in the Southeastern Mexico was selected, from which two groups (<em>Indigenous</em> and <em>Mestizos</em>) were obtained to perform the corresponding statistical analyses. The first group was integrated by indigenous students (<em>n </em>= 55) and the second group by mestizos (<em>n </em>= 65). For data analysis, the Student <em>t </em>test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used. The results showed no significant differences in the entrepreneurial skills between both groups. However, significant differences were obtained when considering the educational programs offered by the intercultural institution, where the program in sustainable rural development was the one that obtained a higher level regarding the development of entrepreneurial skills. This research contributes with empirical evidence to the knowledge on interculturality in this country.

scholarly journals Unsur Budaya Material dalam Novel Entrok Karya Okky Madasari

ATAVISME ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-216
Author(s):  
Miftahurohmah Hikmasari ◽  
Wening Sahayu
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Third ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Aesthetic

This research aims to classify and describe the material culture elements contained in Okky Madasari’s novel Entrok. The research problem includes the classification of material culture elements which only exist in Indonesia, and most of them are related to Javanese culture. This research was a qualitative descriptive research. The data were in the form of words and phrases obtained from Okky Madasari’s Entrok. The result showed that there were six elements of material culture. The most commonly found material culture element was food, the second was house, the third was clothes, and the least found were vehicle, daily equipment, and art tool. The use of material culture elements in literary works, such as novel, not only improves the aesthetic value of the work, but also can be used as a media of education, so that the literary work enthusiasts can recognize better and are able to preserve the cultures in Indonesia.

Ideological and Political Education Resources in Literary Works —A study Based on College Students and Employees of Tobacco Enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 5960-5966
Author(s):  
Liu Zijie
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Ideological And Political Education ◽  
Political Education ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Education Resources ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Group Interviews

Objectives: This paper discusses the ideological and political education resources in literary works. Based on the focus group interviews with college students and employees of tobacco enterprises, this paper further explains the three forms of manifestation related to the ideological and political education resources in literary works: First, the ideological and political education themes in literary works; secondly, the literary discourse strategies can provide reference for the discourse system of the ideological and political education; thirdly, literary works can involve the subject construction in the discourse system of the ideological and political education. An in-depth study of these problems will bridge the originally wide gap between the literary narration and the ideological and political education so that the ideological and political education can absorb and learn from the advantages of literary narration in the ideological dissemination.

Proletarian Modernism: Film, Literature, Theory

PMLA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
pp. 1056-1075
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kohlmann
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Literature Theory ◽  
Opening Up

This article identifies a body of work—films, literary texts, and theories of the aesthetic—that can help us reopen the question of what it means for an artwork to project a vision of classlessness. The article begins by focusing on early-twentieth-century proletarian modernism, in particular in the cinematic work of Sergey Eisenstein and in British literary works that repurposed Woolfian and Joycean styles during the later interwar years. Proletarian modernism, I argue, highlights an alternative route taken by modernist literature and art: unlike the late modernists feted in much recent scholarship, proletarian modernists aimed to retool modernism, opening up new and global political futures for it rather than anticipating its end. The article concludes by showing that the cultural genealogy of proletarian modernism mapped out here doubles as a prehistory of contemporary aesthetic theory: it enables us to recognize the significant political and theoretical erasures that structure recent accounts of art's democratic potential.

Aesthetic Evaluation of Computer Icons: Visual Pattern Differences Between Art-Trained and Lay Raters of Icons

2020 ◽  
pp. 003151252096963
Author(s):  
Zhiguo Hu ◽  
Xinrui Wang ◽  
Xinkui Hu ◽  
Xiaofang Lei ◽  
Hongyan Liu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Eye Movements ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Aesthetic Evaluation ◽  
Visual Patterns ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Eye Fixations ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Computer Icons

Adopting eye-tracking measures, we explored the influence of art experience on the aesthetic evaluation of computer icons. Participants were 27 college students with art training and 27 laypersons. Both groups rated icons of varying complexity and symmetry for “beauty” while we recorded participants’ eye movements. Results showed that art-trained participants viewed the icons with more eye fixations and had shorter scanning paths than participants in the non-art group, suggesting that art-trained participants processed the icons more deliberately. In addition, we observed an interaction effect between art experience and symmetry. For asymmetrical icons, art-trained participants’ ratings tended to be higher than those of lay persons; for symmetric icons, there was no such rater difference. The different visual patterns associated with aesthetic evaluations by these two participant groups suggest that art experience plays a pivotal role in the aesthetic appreciation of icons and has important implications for icon design strategy.

scholarly journals Dis/Graceful Liberties: Textual Libertinism/ Libertine Texts in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-45
Author(s):  
Hager Ben Driss
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
Political Allegory ◽  
The Aesthetic

Abstract This essay addresses J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, a Booker Prize winner in 1999. The novel captures South African political and cultural turmoil attending the post-apartheid transitional period. Far from overlooking the political allegory, I propose instead to expand on a topic only cursorily developed elsewhere, namely liberty and license. The two terms foreground the textual dynamics of the novel as they compete and/or negotiate meaning and ascendency. I argue that Disgrace is energized by Coetzee’s belief in a total liberty of artistic production. Sex is philosophically problematized in the text and advocated as a serious issue that deserves artistic investigation without restriction or censorship. This essay looks into the subtle libertinism in Coetzee’s text, which displays pornographic overtones without exhibiting a flamboyant libertinage. Disgrace acquires its libertine gesture from its dialogue with several literary works steeped in libertinism. The troubled relationship between the aesthetic and the ethical yields an ambiguous text that invites a responsible act of reading.

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