The romance as a form of literary narrative retains its popularity because romance translates into conscious forms and unconscious struggles everyone goes through. (JH)

Attempts to find exclusively Elizabethan solutions to the human problems in Shakespeare's plays often lead us to deny our own responses. (JH)

Author attempts indirectly to suggest two ways in which psychology informs the study of literature: by illuminating the assumptions about mind and behavior which an author holds and in providing additional metaphors which enable us to overcome our own obstacles to perceiving a poet's vision of human experience. (Author/CB)

Presents a brief history of "Cabaret" and analyzes the cinematic version for character changes which differ from the story originally written by Christopher Isherwood. (RB)

Describes a number of techniques employed by the Greek mythographers in the reconstruction of ancient myths to appear as if the male Olympian deities and the patriarchal social order that they modeled were both of vast antiquity, even autochthonic. (HOD)

Argues that, in Ethel May, Charlotte Yonge had, altogether unwittingly, created a new kind of heroine; one whose faults were real and who in the curing of them remained altogether herself. (HOD)

Discusses the association of the Black character (tortured, distorted, mistreated, and misjudged) with horror and the macabre in white American literature from "Letters from an American Farmer" (1782) to "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973). (JM)

Discusses William Beatty Warner's "Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation," a study of Samuel Richardson's role as eighteenth-century critic and interpreter of his own novels. Examines the treatment of character by both Richardson and Warner, focusing on Richardson's humanist interpretation and Warner's anti-humanist…

Compares two illustrated retellings of the Anglo-Saxon epic "Beowulf" that show how the modern approach to myth has evolved over the past 20 years. (HOD)

A reevaluation of novelist Richard Wright's first book, which is a collection of five short stories-- Big Boy Leaves Home,'' Down by the Riverside,'' Long Black Song,'' Fire and Cloud,'' and Bright and Morning Star''--and an introductory essay, The Ethics of Living Jim Crow.'' (JM)

Divided into four sections, this book, which examines women's literature, depicts the roles women have been forced to assume in society and are now beginning to occupy. "Woman as Heroine" consists of analyses of traditional views of women with discussions of myths of women, stereotypes of women's roles, needs, attributes, and potentials.…

This paper examines the ways that old age is portrayed in literature, focusing on how old people gradually disengage themselves from the social systems in which they live. The writers and works discussed present bleak portraits of old age in contrast to recent scientific assertions that human beings now live healthier, longer, more satisfying…

Asserts that Asian American kids are looking for Asian American characters with a style that commands attention and respect in terms they can understand. Only in the works of Taro Yashima and Lawrence Yep are the literary sensibility, language and vision of Asian and Asian American culture. We need a body of Asian American myth to form and express…

The purpose of this paper is to trace a descriptive history of woman's psyche as manifested in English and American literature by and about women during the period from 1688 through 1975. The application of archetypal theory (the description of recurrent patterns in symbolic and narrative structures within a wide and complex field of material) to…