Explains a teaching technique for explicating "Macbeth" that depends on textual proof. (RB)

Examines the role of literature in developing cultural values. (RB)

Considers how an introduction to literature course is relevant to today's incoming freshmen, and suggests what an introductory course should entail. (RB)

Argues that English teachers are not asking the most important questions about a piece of literature, suggesting that they are ducking the issues that are specifically political. (RB)

Presents an exercise intended to help students understand that reading literature is a worthwhile endeavor. (RB)

Analyzes the reasons for teaching English in Canadian schools, viewing the arguments both for and against it. (RB)

Describes several opening passages from modern English novels to illustrate a grammatical-analysis approach to the study of literature. (RB)

THE "SURPRISE ENDINGS" IN EACH OF WILLIAM GOLDING'S FIRST FOUR NOVELS OCCUR WHEN THE POINT OF VIEW SHIFTS FROM THE LIMITED WORLD OF THE NOVEL TO THE UNLIMITED WORLD OF REALITY. THE BOYS' RESCUE BY THE UNCOMPREHENDING OFFICER IN "LORD OF THE FLIES," REFOCUSES AND REINFORCES ALL THAT PRECEDES IT, AND THE FABLE, SUPERIMPOSED UPON REAL LIFE, BECOMES…

This paper discusses the problems of interpeting "Oedipus Rex" and argues that morality was not the primary question being raised in this play, nor was Sophocles urging people to humility and piety. Instead, Sophocles was primarily interested in the insufficiency of human knowledge. The gods and their role in destiny, the character and…

Defense of fantasy as part of the regular English curriculum. (AA)

A weekly letter to the class gives each student in a literature class a chance to uncover their relationship to what they are reading. (DD)

Criticizes R. Scholes' application of French semiotics, clarifies C. Peirce's and F. Saussure's concepts of semiotics as applied to cultural semiotics, examines the Internal Field of Reference, and asserts an interpretive relationship between cultural text and episteme. Discusses intertextuality and concludes great implications for literary study…

Outlines the differences between mediocre and good poetry, asserting that most objections to poetry are really objection to bad poetry or poetry poorly taught or ignorantly read and concluding that good poetry is a way of knowing and a method of organizing perceptions. (SRT)

Uses the film version of Bernard Malamud's "The Natural" to show how archetypes and irony make their appeal to a serious audience without in any way making the film less entertaining. (EL)