In 1781 he wrote a desperate letter of appeal to Edmund Burke, who read Crabbe's writings and persuaded James Dodsley to publish one of his didactic, descriptive poems, The Library (1781).
Focusing on seven projects, this exhibition gives a good account of his didactic approach to troublesome topics like border crossing between Mexico and the United States; gated communities in Brazil; and the sports stadium as a site of controlled violence.
The performance was reminiscent of his didactic televised addresses to Peruvians during his often authoritarian rule, but it was more notable for what it said about how the former president, who remains highly popular in Japan, seems to view his political future.
Coetzee's habit of highlighting his didactic points, as if in red ink and underlined three times, aren't as pronounced as they are in Disgrace, but he still does it too often.
Ruskin, in one of his many didactic enterprises, could describe a mountain formation through a tiny rock, and vice versa.
Focusing on seven projects from 1978 to 2011, "Muntadas: Information>>Space>>Control" at the Bronx Museum of the Arts gives a good account of the strengths and weaknesses of his frankly didactic approach.
At about this time, too (perhaps prompted by a severe illness), he wrote the best known and most popular of his many didactic works, The Family Instructor (1715).
Longfellow adapted European methods of storytelling and versifying to narrative poems dealing with American history, and a few of his less didactic lyrics perfectly married technique and subject matter.
For Greene, in one of his most didactic works, the agent, Pyle, was America; the woman, Phuong, was Vietnam; and the journalist-protagonist, Fowler, was only a half-step away from Greene himself, the world-weary European.
He wasn't so much a comic book artist as the last great stained-glass painter of the European tradition, his didactic little fables bringing theology and liturgy into the domain of fungible images, to educate the unchurched.
Although Christopher Crowfield barely mentions the ongoing conflict in his didactic discussions of interior decorating, child rearing, and servant managing, House and [End Page 37] Home Papers (HHP) is supersaturated by two themes undeniably pertinent to the war: the systematic production of unifying sentiment, and bodily labor.
