Discusses how the color white represents disaster for Richard Wright's hero, Bigger Thomas, in Native Son." (SW)

Special issue devoted to teaching Level II French. (DS)

Theorizes that in the unfinished "De Bello Civili," Lucan intended to describe the African campaign against Pompey, and to terminate the poem with the suicide of Cato at Utica. (DS)

Malintzin Tenepal (Dona Marina, La Malinche) is portrayed as a woman who was able to act beyond her prescribed societal function. (NQ)

This anthology offers significant writings on the subject of nonfiction film, with emphasis primarily on British and American films and film makers (although the work of Alberto Cavalcanti, Leni Riefenstahl, and Joris Ivens is also represented). The first section of the book offers essays that examine and define the essential nature and idea of…

This study deals primarily with recent academically oriented critical material, but it also embraces the range of film criticism that has been written for the mass audience in newspapers and periodicals. The study considers eight types of critical approaches to analyzing film: the journalistic approach, which contains both a reportorial-review and…

In spite of the material seeking to define rhetoric and approaches to its study, few attempts have been made to stipulate qualities of "rhetorical acts meriting critical attention" or critical outcomes that serve social or professional functions. Rhetorical criticism, to be useful, must perform a unique function for society as well as for the…

Three papers, all concerned with literary analysis, are presented in this book. The first essay, "How Ordinary Is Ordinary Language," (Stanley E. Fish) argues that a distinction between literature and other uses of language leads logically to an impoverished conception of both rather than insuring literature's status as a repository of value.…