Discusses the personality development of the "Wuthering Heights" character Catherine Earnshaw in terms of the id, the ego, and the superego. (EL)

A teacher discusses an English class' response to Solzhenitsyn's novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and the controversial film, "Scum." (HOD)

The only way English teachers and their students can have an appreciation for literature by black writers is to have appreciation for the writers themselves and for the world, past and present, they occupy. (MM)

A second reading of April Morning" is necessary to discover its meaning. (SW)

A narrative account of a lesson on Frost's Dust of Snow"; part of a work-in-progress, The Fragment and Other Gross Errors." (Editor/RD)

Argues that assignments to write about literature can help teach rhetoric" only if administered with emphasis on the special rhetorical problems they pose." (Author/RD)

A consideration of Sir Patrick Spens" from the point of view that structure determines meaning." (Author/RD)

Offers a rebuttal to an earlier article in which the author had argued that language use must not be distorted to serve political purposes. (HOD)

Suggests a method for teaching students how to mark up literary texts, as well as other texts in order to develop an intimate acquaintance with literature. (DD)

Describes an assignment in which students locate, read, assess, and discuss critical articles about the works of literature they are studying. Points to many benefits of the assignment, including its positive effects on students' library research skills. (TJ)