Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, October 19, 1968, in Cincinnati, Ohio. (DS)

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

In figures like Gertrude Stein and Alain Robbe-Grillet, we see the continuation of that long tradition, given to us by the Greeks, of the writer as prophet, touched by the gods. Examines the development of literature through the work of these two writers and the criticisms that accompanied their efforts. (Author/RK)

Excerpt from the book, Poetes d'Aujourd'hui" to be published in Argentina. (DS)

This discussion of the movie "Field of Dreams" analyzes the film's structuring of individual perceptual response to its visual messages, as well as its contribution to our cultural myths using baseball as visual metaphor. The central premises of the film revolve around seeing and reading the visual messages correctly according to the…

In 1958 in their journal, "The Fifties," Robert Bly and William Duffy introduced North American readers and students to a number of European and South American poets who had developed an imagination variously described as "ecstatic,""surreal,""fantastic,""mythic," etc. That same year the American poet Donald Hall began to write poetry in a new…

Investigates how some South Asian novelists who use English as their chosen instrument of communication are seeking to "decolonize" English. They are trying to capture the deep structures and lineaments of national cultures in order to make English a more authentic vehicle for expressing the consciousness of the people. (Author/SED)

This curriculum guide is intended to introduce fifth and sixth grade children to the study of poetry. Separate units include discussion of, suggested activities for, and questions about (1) metrics and scansion; (2) rhyme scheme and stanza; (3) diction, denotation and connotation, and onomatopoeia; (4) rhyme (end rhyme, masculine and feminine…