Examines the identity of female characters who rescue male protagonists in three works of Newbery-winning fiction, and realizes their archetypal roles of Mother. Provides readers with a vehicle for revisiting the interaction among characters in young adult fiction. Presents a rationale for using literary criticism to help students explore how…

The author discusses the following question: "How can fiction, which consists primarily of particular statements about human nature, be said to give us universal truths?" (Author/SJL)

Surveys innovative styles, original perspectives, and individual characteristics of Spanish novelists Ferlosio, Fernandez Santos, Matute, Albala, Goytisolo, Martin Santos, Pinilla, Solis, Castresana, Bunuel, Rojas and Aldecoa. (DS)

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)

In both speaking and writing, the goal is communication with the intended audience. Rejecting the view that rhetoric is based on an established set of conventions, this article examines the writings of Charles Dickens as models of rhetorical expression. Passages from Dicken's novels illustrate how the writer violated grammatical rules and broke…

Miguel de Cervantes' capture by the Turks and his imprisonment in Argel (Morocco) during the Battle of Lepanto in the sixteenth century have been studied by literary critics who have endeavored to determine fiction and reality in certain episodes of "Don Quijote" and in the drama, "Los banos de Argel". Twelve documents…

This paper describes an elective literature course that examines the cultural and historical context of Western United States literary works for insights into the whole of United States culture. From a definition of the "West" that has both geographical and mythical dimensions, the following major images emerge for study: Eden, El…

The Nancy Drew books are entertaining for the adolescent, but do not provide them the opportunity to gain insights into the way in which human beings experience life and, in the process, grow.

The successes and failures of the realistic mode when utilized by writers for children. (RM)

A paper presented at Workshop on Literary Sexual Stereotypes at annual convention of Modern Language Association of America (New York, December 27, 1970). (Editor)

Discusses the riddle posed by the dying grandfather of the narrator in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" in terms of its language, the way it functions in the narrative, and the way in which an understanding of its solutions provides an important key to the novel. (GW)