This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the young adult novel; (2) the image of the senior adult in recent fiction for adolescents; (3) adolescent identity themes; (4) storytelling; (5) linguistic reference and the disabled; (6) college readers' response process; (7) the American Indian in adolescent literature; (8) the Delphi method of teaching literature; (9) satire in picture books; (10) the effects of black literature on the attitudes of white adolescents toward blacks; (11) oral interpretation and listening competence; (12) Japanese, Soviet, and Australian literature; (13) prose metrics; (14) linguistic stylistics in children's literature; (15) science in literature; (16) film and literature; (17) feminist criticism; (18) intermediate grade children's poetry preferences; (19) aesthetic transaction; (20) prose learning strategies; and (21) the Negro Renaissance and Negritude Movement. (AEA)