A facetious private detective story embroidered with literary interpretation, autobiography, logical positivism, David Hume on personal identity, and "The Happy Hooker." (RL)

Suggests a method for teaching students how to mark up literary texts, as well as other texts in order to develop an intimate acquaintance with literature. (DD)

Encourages the study of critical and textual variations in order to raise students' awareness of how cultural and literary assumptions influence their reading and to show students how their understanding of a work can be altered by subtle variations. (DD)

Proposes that literary analysis and criticism need to strike a balance between reader and text, between subjectivity and objectivity. Notes that literary works call for different critical approaches and urges English teachers to develop students' skills for apprehending what approach should be used with particular works. (JT)

Suggests that literary study should employ student creative writing as a transition into expository critical writings and discussion of literary works. (DD)

Shows how Melville's "Benito Cereno" may be used to show reluctant readers that literature has a bearing on their lives. (DD)

Identifies several words and phrases pervasive in the everyday speech of literary critics and teachers, interprets them, analyzes the pattern they form, and draws conclusions from their patterns of significance. (DD)

Analyzes how literary training in content, character, style, and world view might affect one's view of the world of politics. (DD)

Describes a course in "Images of the Male in Women's Writing" and the contribution a man can make in teaching such a course. (DD)

A critical analysis of the social and rhetorical flaws in the writings of George Orwell. (DD)

A replication of I. A. Richards' study of students' reactions to thirteen poems in the 1920s. (DD)

A study of students' reactions to four of the thirteen poems used in I. A. Richards' study in the 1920s. (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)