Argues that movements employ a series of strategic guiding "topoi" and examines activism, antagonism, agonism, and futurism. Concludes that when all four rhetorical topoi are present an "avant-garde" movement of radical proportions exists. (JMF)

When the joint experiences of a poem, poet, reader, and listener are met, there is a communion of spirits that is both test and fruition of the interpretive act. (Author)

The paper presents an analytical criticism of Isaac Kandel's methodology. Isaac Kandel, who compared the educational systems of England, France, Russia, Germany, Italy, and the United States in "Comparative Education," 1933, is credited with laying the foundations of the scientific study of comparative education. The paper criticizes…

A method is presented for systematically exploring family life as expressed in fiction. The approach can be easily adapted to classroom teaching, or utilized in research projects. A summary of how lay authors of specific books portray mother-daughter and father-daughter relationships is reported. (Author)

To point out some inadequacies in the usual ways of studying and teaching literature, to emphasize that books exist primarily to be read by individual human beings, and to explore some of the questions which arise when it is seriously acknowledged that books require individual readers and readings, the author of this volume demonstrates that…

Argues that the tradition culminating in Jencks work is better seen as policy research than as an answer to the sociological problem of the effects of schools on students. A tradition of radical criticism of schools is more ideological but offers an implicit theory of the effects of schooling that is of great sociological interest. (Author/AM)

Issue devoted to the teaching of foreign literatures. (DS)

Issue devoted to teaching foreign literatures in the language classroom. (DS)

The thesis that style through the manner of expression provides the writer or speaker with the matter of his discourse is the subject of these eight essays. Articles are by (1) Louis T. Milic, who explores the implication of stylistic theory for the teaching of composition, (2) Martin Joos, who relates style theories to the national enthusiasm for…

Modern society is an ever-changing pattern of pressure and counter pressure. A social movement in conflict with the dominant society is labeled with easily identifiable stereotypes--bearded long hairs, bra burners, terrorists, bleeding hearts, uneducated rednecks. Traditional criticism has failed to say anything meaningful about social movements…

Paper presented at the Deutscher Neuphilologentag on April 1, 1970 in Munster, West Germany. (WB)