A wide-ranging discussion of more than 30 British novelists and their works. (PF)

Presents an approach for teaching Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" (from "The Canterbury Tales"). Recommends several reference texts related to the "The Canterbury Tales" and medieval literature in general. (MM)

Examines the Working Party on English Literature's report on the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Concludes that the report attempts both to validate and challenge some basic GCSE assumptions, and that its total rejection of criterion-referencing constitutes a much-needed stand against GCSE grading practices. (MM)

Describes the characteristics of British children's books that are apt to make them incomprehensible to American children. (PF)

Examines English language pattern poetry from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Commonwealth countries, and the United States. (FL)

Describes several approaches to teaching Robert Westall's "The Machine-Gunners." Questions the effectiveness of several activities which are commonly used to teach imaginative texts. (MM)

Describes a classroom study of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" which concentrates on the Weird Sisters and the question of witchcraft. Advocates utilizing pupils' experience of powerful images from the general culture, introducing a selection of well-documented historical evidence to support textual study, and avoiding misguided conventional…

Discusses the importance of the stories of King Arthur. Observes that knowledge of myth can provide a way of examining a culture through its people's eyes. Argues that myth can be a tool of therapy and a model for belief. Concludes that the Arthurian myth has many contemporary points of reference. (SG)

Using a comparative case-study method, questionnaires, and structured interviews, the authors investigated how British and American students view the study of literature teaching. The focus is upon the expectations students have of their courses, but their views of literature as a subject are also presented. (Author/CH)

Examines possible causes and consequences of the growth of English literary criticism. Asserts that the current mass of publication is inappropriate to literary criticism, and damages the status of the discipline as well as the development of the individual critic. Calls for a reappraisal of the role of critical publication. (MM)

Discusses how films of Shakespeare's plays can be used to teach literary analysis in the classroom and to nurture an interest in Shakespeare. Suggests some books for teachers which specifically address Shakespeare and film. (PRA)

Paper presented at Annual Convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Milwaukee, Wis., November 28-30, 1968).

Argues that, although Matthew Arnold was instrumental in launching English literature in Britain as a proper school subject, he purposively limited the extent of literature's educational value. (MG)

The purpose of this collection of essays is to inform students intending to study English at British Universities of the choices of institutions and kinds of courses available to them. The introductory essay explores the nature of some of the course choices available and discusses why courses take the form they do. The body of the book consists of…

Reviews "Marking A Level English Literature" by P.A. Lapworth, which is intended as a clarification for teachers of the basis on which candidates' papers are assessed by the Joint Matriculation Board examiners at 'A' Level. (DF)