Describes an approach to teaching introductory college literature courses that allows students to engage text directly without help from critical analysis papers and to express feelings of frustration, confusion, and anger in deciphering the meaning of the text. Points up ways in which the text gives rise to comprehension difficulties. (RBW)

Describes a course on literature for women's studies. (DD)

Examines the results of a teachers' workshop designed to improve the quality of teaching in composition courses for college freshmen. (RB)

The author supports the theory that one of the important relationships between literature and knowledge is the language of literature. (MM)

Talked books--which are not written by anybody--are superimpositions of electronic orality, writing, and print on or through one another. (RB)

A critical review of English Education Today," edited by L.S. Josephs and E. R. Steinberg, which is more a review of English curriculum, the directions, philosophies, and problems in English instruction, with emphasis on the need to think critically and innovatively. (JB)

What we seek out and note in earlier literature is what is most prominent, satisfying, and comprehensible to the contemporary imagination. (RB)

A paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Atlanta, November 27, 1970). (Editor/RD)

An open litter by the chairman of the College Section of the National Council of Teachers of English expressing some of the anxieties college English teachers have today. (SW)

A college professor reflects on the ethical problems and inadequacies of educational trends and "easy solutions" that sway English instruction from the essentials back to the basics. (RL)

College English instruction should examine the capitalistic mass culture indoctrination being effected through the mass media. (DD)

Discusses the ghosts and haunting in recent American fiction. Considers the similarity of function of ghosts in contemporary ethnic American literatures. Identifies a specific kind of ghost story, a "cultural haunting," that has recently emerged in large numbers in ethnic American literature. (HB)