This paper explores two ways in which myth operates in and informs the structure of "Absalom, Absalom!": (1) the suggestion of mythic import created by direct parallels with a Biblical myth, and (2) the creation of a modern myth through the accumulation of oral histories, oral interpretations, and oral revisions of the major story--that…

The book "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" by Clarence King, a late-ninteenth-century American geologist, writer, art critic, and romantic, is discussed in this paper. In the writing and revision of this book, King was attempting a metamorphosis of landscape description into popular reading as he moved from being a symbolic writer to…

In reviewing the ancient, well-worn debate on the relationship between literature and values, it may be seen that the current pedagogical theory of developing response to literature is parallel to the argument for helping students articulate their own values. Two approaches to clarifying values are the values clarification approach (Louis Raths,…