Examines historical, critical, and even psychological" relationship of Macaulay to Johnson, and describes Macaulay's ambivalent attitude to Johnson. (Author/SP)

Quotes and discusses Bernard Shaw's statements on the purpose of literary art, the author's role and character, the nature of audiences, and the artistic requirements of fiction and dramatic works. Finds Shaw's theory of literary art consistent and unaltered throughout more than half a century. (DMM)

Explores the ways that Andrew Carnegie used the famous folk tale, "Jack and the Beanstalk," to shape his own autobiography. (HOD)

Part two of an exchange between two authors of children's literature in which they discuss the effects that book reviews have on their work. (AEA)

Discusses the interaction of the two roles of writer and critic and compares them with the authors' different approaches and responses. (HOD)

A humorous presentation of publisher-to-author correspondence that indicates how contemporary publishers might criticize or reject such works as "Treasure Island,""The Tale of Peter Rabbit,""Little Women," and the Grimm brothers' fairy tales. (ET)

Can violence be predicted? Possibly not, but Catherine Brosman of Tulane University, who is a professor of French and Italian, suggests that a reflective look at art and literature may provide some clues in advance of a period of political violence. (Editor/RK)

Analyzes "Mission to Kala", a novel in which the journey motif (physical and metaphorical) shapes the novelistic form. (Author/AM)

Argues for the canonicity of "Sonnet: The Token," a John Donne poem whose authorship has been in doubt for some decades. Employs deconstruction as its critical approach, though that approach is nearly passe in Renaissance studies, and it calls the issue of authorship into question. (TB)

Discusses an antiestablishment stance and explains how the adoption of an author of an outsider's viewpoint facilitates the observation and recording of the futility behind day-to-day activities. A discussion focuses on the importance of auditory qualities of speech in Pacific literature. (JL)

Details a review of collaborative styles of professional writers. Notes that some Society of Technical Communication members reported an often hierarchical collaborative process, whereas respondents within the Modern Language Association seemed suspicious of collaboration. Reveals, however, that a dialogic collaborative mode subverting the status…