Examines Rudolf B. Gottfried's attack ( Our New Poet: Archetypal Criticism and The Fairie Queene," PMLA," vol. 83, no. 5, pp. 1362-77) on Frye's Anatomy of Criticism" and The Structure of Imagery in The Fairie Queene" and A. C. Hamilton's The Structure of Allegory in The Fairie Queene." (SW)

Three writers debate whether English teachers should depend on external or internal criteria when analyzing and teaching literature. Each writer discusses the meaning of Elinor Wylie's poem, "The Eagle and the Mole," according to his particular view of literary analysis. Edward Ducharme, in "The Evasion of the Text," submits…

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…

The purposes of this book are to introduce film as an art and to show how close, both in form and content, literature and the narrative film are to one another. To accomplish these purposes, the basic components of literature and film are compared, including language (the novel uses words, while the film uses images), point of view, and figurative…

Through a bilingual reading of Beckett's "Mal vu mal dit," the illusion of painted relief for printed letters is created. Colors manifest themselves through the continual process of translation. The French translation adds color to the black and white English text. (DF)

Examines Conrad's use of symbolism, imagery, and characterization to illustrate his association of blackness with evil and inferiority. (BE)

Author encounters poems by women as part of the matrix of her own life and the lives of her women students. In so doing, she and they discover the meaning of literature in a new way. (Author/NL)

Reviews of selected books written between 1880 and 1965. (RD)

Argues that teaching literature is interpreting literature and that, consequently, the position that literature should only be experienced" is unrealistic in any instructional setting. (RD)

Analyzes the special qualities of a number of books (especially Walter de la Mare's "Come Hither") that have delighted the author as a child and as an adult. Pinpoints three qualities: a "tough" story, precise language, and creative imagery. (GT)

Modern literary criticism may be classified into four categories to provide a format for instruction which both reduces modern criticism to its essential interests and provides a critical vocabulary which is a mediating vocabulary between modern criticism and literature. These categories are summed up in structural metaphors: Symbolic Form,…

Oral performance of literature can be compared with film viewing, in that both are strongly based on suggestion, which forces the spectator to participate actively in the creation of images. Film is actually a series of still pictures, but persistence of vision produces the idea of motion in the mind. Likewise, literature in performance involves…

Describes and suggests the significance of syntactic imagery, poetic effects created through expressive grammatical structures. (MM)