By reading negative criticisms of assigned books and stories, students may gain a better command of those works and of the processes of talking and writing about literature. (JH)

The articles in this journal issue focus on adolescent literature. In the first article, author Sue Ellen Bridgers explains how she writes books, while the second article offers an analysis of the recent works of Paul Zindel. The third article presents a discussion of the treatment of outsiders, such as the mentally ill, in four Roy Brown…

An assignment for high school or college students that requires them to interpret what a poem may have communicated to the poet's contemporaries can be valuable in that it teaches them that there is more than one way to interpret a poem and that the rules of interpretation are neither universal nor unchanging. Such an approach to poetry…

THESE THREE TESTS--"ORIENTATION,""TRADITIONAL BALLAD," AND "THE LITERARY BALLAD"--WERE DESIGNED BY THE OREGON CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER FOR A SEVENTH-GRADE LITERATURE CURRICULUM. THEY ARE INTENDED TO ACCOMPANY CURRICULUM UNITS AVAILABLE AS ED 010 135 AND ED 010 136. (MM)

THESE TWO TESTS--"SHORT STORY" AND "FABLES, PROVERBS, AND PARABLES"--WERE DESIGNED BY THE OREGON CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER FOR A SEVENTH-GRADE LITERATURE CURRICULUM. THEY ARE INTENDED TO ACCOMPANY CURRICULUM UNITS AVAILABLE AS ED 010 137 AND ED 010 138. (MM)

THESE THREE TESTS--"REORIENTATION,""TRAVEL LITERATURE," AND "NARRATIVE POETRY"--WERE DESIGNED BY THE OREGON CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER FOR AN EIGHTH-GRADE LITERATURE CURRICULUM. THEY ARE INTENDED TO ACCOMPANY CURRICULUM UNITS AVAILABLE AS ED 010 141 AND ED 010 142. (MM)

Six points appear prominently in modern theory of composition: theory basks in the shadow of literary criticism and scholarship; writing is an act involving creativity, of which theory should take account; creativity depends upon the primacy of personal insight, which is also the basis of intellectual development; the grapholect of standard edited…

THIS SALINGER STORY OF "DECEIT-WITHIN-DECEIT" IS A MORAL CONDEMNATION OF SOCIETY. ARTHUR, AWARE OF HIS WIFE JOANIE'S INFIDELITY, CANNOT OBJECT BECAUSE IN HIS BUSINESS LIFE HE IS DEPENDENT ON LEE, HER LOVER, FOR PROTECTION FROM "JUNIOR." ARTHUR'S DESPAIR IS NOT COMPLETE, HOWEVER, SINCE HE GAINS A MORAL VICTORY BY USING HIS…

This special issue of the "Indiana English Journal" is devoted to such articles on literature in the classroom as "The Boys of Summer" by Saul Bachner, "Sexual Stereotypes and Persuasive Techniques in Children's Literature" by Marilyn Faulconer and Thomas Tortoriello, and teaching "Silas Marner Again" by…

There are at least four reasons why the stereotype of Henry David Thoreau as an ascetic and a stoic have been perpetuated: (1) Emerson, in his eulogy of Thoreau, emphasized these qualities by saying, "Few lives contain so many renunciations...he ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco; and, though a naturalist, he…

The workshop method of teaching a college literature course has proved an effective means of stimulating independent student work, promoting teacher-student conferences, and providing for peer criticism. Discussions of both some specific principles of literary criticism and the historical background of the period to be studied introduce the…

One high school teacher's experience in teaching Black literature is described. Suggestions made are: be judicious in selecting material for the literature class; be tactful in discussing it; be willing to deal honestly with the issues raised in Black literature; be ready to learn what it is that makes certain Blacks' works better than others and…