Relates the Pueblo myth of the Water Jar Boy. Examines a petroglyph created during the period 1350-1680 at the long deserted La Cienaga Pueblo, and interprets this petroglyph in terms of metaphors used in the Pueblo myth. Contains 18 references. (SV)

The author gives the reader a detailed analysis of metaphor. He classifies them in four distinct groups and gives many examples to prove his point. (MR)

Able 11th- and 12th-grade students can enjoy the imagery, direct language, and indirect thought of T. S. Eliot. Eliot's treatment of the apathetic society and the isolated individual, his concern for spirituality over sensuality, and his plea for collective responsibility for evil are themes that can be traced in his major works through…

An essay exploring the application of moral criticism to rhetorical discourse; based upon two lectures given at the State University of New York at Binghamton, November 1968. (Editor/RD)

The Bible still offers artists their basic myths and patterns for interpreting the American experience.

Educational criticism, based largely on a paradigm of the arts, is an evaluation mode which relies heavily on metaphor, other tropes, and artistic language in general, to convey the quality of educational experiences. Recently educational criticism came under fire by Patton, largely for its use of metaphor which Patton believes the critic brings…

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)

The problem, emphasized by I. A. Richards, of cultivating in students an awareness of literature which enables them to discern good and bad writing remains unsolved. As demonstrated in critical essays about a poem written under examination conditions by two 16-year-old boys, an ability to identify poetic techniques is not enough to ensure proper…

Examines the garden in "The Secret Garden" as an image, a metaphor, and a symbol that help readers to appreciate the levels of meaning and the narrative movement of the book. (HOD)

Discusses the metaphorical use of landscape in three novels by William Mayne. (HOD)

Differs with Muhlhausler's (1995) assertion that no culture-neutral boundary exists between what is literal and what is metaphorical. The article concludes that some serviceable account of literal meaning is needed; the two systems of meaning interpenetrate in any language; and over time, metaphorical expressions may assume the status of literal…