Urges the mythic approach to literary criticism as a way to develop an organized, linear college English curriculum that will make literature relevant to students' experience. (AA)

Records the dialog between Northrop Frye and a panel of teachers who quizzed him about the direct application of his theories to the teaching of English in elementary through university classrooms. (RL)

Considers the impact of Northrop Frye's work on education. Shows how Frye explores systematically the continuity of the literary tradition and the structural principles used to discuss that tradition. (RL)

Shows how Northrop Frye's approach to teaching literature, literary analysis, and literary criticism is a combination of structure and relevance. (RL)

The structural linguist's techniques for measuring stress, juncture, and gradations of pitch permit a closer study of a poem's movement than conventional scansion allows. (RL)

Highlights the contents and scope of the 13-volume "Literature: Uses of the Imagination," and its companion volume, "An Anatomy of Literature," a literary collection developed and supervised by Northrop Frye. Questions whether these volumes could be successful in American classrooms of the 1980s. (RL)

A teacher's personal experience and its similarity to observations in a poem by Robert Frost illustrate the literature teacher's function--to find shared experiences in literature and transmit the power of the descriptions to others. (RL)