Describes an experience with a non-directive small group approach to teaching point of view in fiction, concluding that teachers have an obligation to teach sound critical standards. (DD)

Suggests an approach to literary study that examines the personality behind an author's work as well as the literary conventions. (TO)

Both Sylvia Plath and Doris Lessing use themes prevalent in Gothic horror tales--fear, madness, dissolution of personality, the dream journey, and the grotesque--but both writers make use of these themes in their own inimitable way. This paper discusses Plath's "The Bell Jar" and Lessing's "Briefing for a Descent into Hell" in…

A collection of five essays (plus preface and afterword) by noted feminist critics, this book provides an overview of the existing body of feminist literary criticism in order to promote an understanding of the issues feminist critics are currently discussing among themselves and with other critics. A theoretical framework for understanding this…

Western regional writing provides a valuable resource for scholars and teachers. In their accounts of the populating of the West and the effects of that population, Western writers suggest questions that might be asked of any region--questions of skill, culture, race, environment, scenery, and progress. If the genre deals with these matters to a…

Proposes the application of Norman Holland's views on transactional literary analysis to the teaching of basic writing, raising student awareness of reader and writer roles through frequent writing activities and reader feedback. (RL)

Departmental "autonomy" creates barriers to communication; if language and literature departments are to survive, and if the materials with which they deal are to maintain their vitality, they must constantly keep in touch, indeed join forces, with other fields and other departments. (Author/DB)