Discusses the differences between literary analysis and linguistics and between the structures of language and literature. (SW)

Examines the secondary terms "kill,""order," and "secret" in Kenneth Burke's "A Rhetoric of Motives" in order to provide a deeper understanding of the Burkean concept of act. Suggests how this concept of act might be applied to the teaching of writing. (MM)

Suggests that because feminism is impelled to seek experimental forms of discourse that attempt to propose and practice a radically different mode of communication, feminist works require careful consideration. Discusses two books by Luce Irigaray, SPECULUM OF THE OTHER WOMAN and THIS SEX WHICH IS NOT ONE. (ARH)

Analyzes the evils of political and commercial doublespeak and contends that they can be alleviated by the truth of good literature. (DD)

Looks at Robert Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man" as a "representative anecdote" for Frost's work, which, taken as a whole, shows readers how to lose themselves among the overlooked places and turnings, the topics and tropes, that make up Frost's rhetorical home, the place of everyday human talk and gossip. (TB)

Argues that the formalistic study of poetry is the best preparation for the study of law because no other discipline (1) communicates so well that words are not often interchangeable, (2) concentrates as much on the effects of ambiguity in words and phrases, and (3) focuses as much on the concept of contextuality. (MM)

Discusses the work of Blake and how it situates the author in thinking about literary criticism and theory and how it affects his teaching. (SRT)

Argues that in teaching students to write as critics, educators need to ask them to change not how they think but how they work--to take on a new sort of intellectual practice. Shows how helping students become more aware of choices they make in revising their texts can help them gain control of using the work of others and gain a reflectiveness…

Describes how Bakhtin's insights can heighten the reader's ability to experience verbal and written expression in a rich and complex way, thus serving as an anecdote to a simplified, exclusive concern with purely formal aspects of writing instruction. (EL)

Excoriates those who resist attempts to remove sexism from English, singling out critic John Simon as particularly offensive. (JL)

Revised version of a paper presented at Conference on Comparative Literature (4th, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, April 16-17, 1970). (Editor/RD)

Examines features of and sources for the discourse of Martin Luther King, Jr., as they relate to the language and assumptions favored by his listeners and readers in an effort to understand how speakers and writers can successfully argue from premises that audiences accept. Indicates how an understanding of King can help in composition…

Analyzes George Orwell's 1946 essay, "Politics and the English Language," to develop an argument about compositional pedagogy and the nature of writing itself. Points out the dangers of promulgating only the "plain style" of language usage and the paradoxical advantages of combining classical rhetoric with radical politics. (RL)

Offers a sustained linguistic analysis of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." Finds that, because Cooper's technical blunders and moral limitations are always in view, they are revelatory. Suggests that no American author has gotten more things wrong about languages; but no one has dramatized more about how languages…

Discusses the radical dramatism of language and the implications for writing instruction. (MM)