This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 35 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) characterization of native Americans in children's and young adult's fiction written by native American and nonnative American authors; (2) fantasy fiction; (3) the feasibility of using folk literature to teach select critical reading skills to sixth grade students; (4) how ninth grade boys read short stories and science selections; (5) criticism of ten of the most frequently anthologized American short stories in state adopted textbooks used in Alabama secondary schools; (6) a literary criticism course designed for college seniors; (7) adolescent novels dealing with divorce, separation, and desertion; (8) sports and literature; (9) creativity training's effect on poetry writing; (10) developing moral awareness in high school literature classes; (11) black women writers of the Harlem Renaissance; (12) the process of responding to literature; (13) the effectiveness of bibliotherapy in conjunction with adolescent novels in altering student attitudes; (14) sex-stereotyping of females in primary school reading textbooks; and (15) the classification of selected parables on the basis of their literary characteristics. (HTH)