Providing a gateway into the real literature emerging from the Middle East, this book shows teachers how to make the topic authentic, powerful, and relevant. "Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East": (1) Introduces teachers to this literature and how to teach it; (2) Brings to the reader a tremendous diversity of teachable texts…

This series, People and Places in World-English Literature, is published to introduce readers to modern writers who write in English. Each of the booklets contains a preface to the series, acknowledgments, an introduction to the authors and forms of literature, a literary map of the country, representative authors, a reference bibliography of the…

Australian Literature, in spite of the cultural and creative handicaps imposed on a developing country, is becoming accepted on the international literary scene. Contemporary novels and drama have imaginatively combined characteristic Australian themes and myths with European artistic traditions, while poetry has shown a concern with universal…

Primarily an evaluative, annotated bibliography of reference books and periodicals on American and English literature, this research guide also lists useful sources for research in other national literatures, and more than 300 reference books in literature-related subject areas. The introduction includes a key to abbreviations and instructions for…

This paper chronologically presents a history of curricular development dating from the inception of King's College in 1754 through Columbia University's departmental offerings in 1953. The comprehensive study of curriculums is initiated with a review of the significance of rhetoric during the early period. Systematic examination of the growth of…

Volume 1 of the 4-volume, international bibliography contains some 9,000 entries referring to books and articles which focus on general, English, American, medieval and neo-Latin, and Celtic literatures. The master list of the nearly 1,500 periodicals from which entries are derived is furnished at the beginning of the volume with a table of…

Volume 1 of the four-volume, international bibliography contains over 11,140 entries referring to books, Festschriften, analyzed collections, and articles which focus on General, English, American, medieval and neo-Latin, and Celtic literatures. A section of folklore is also included. The section on general literature includes: (1) aesthetics, (2)…

This list of works by over 140 different authors is arranged alphabetically by author and covers various genres from classical times to the present. In compiling the list, preference was given to works likely to interest students, to those readily and inexpensively available in mass editions, to short works over long ones, and to modern works over…

This book contains 37 out-of-print lectures on American, English, and world literature that have been presented at the Library of Congress over the past 30 years. Lectures by Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, R. P. Blackmur, Archibald Henderson, Irving Stone, John O'Hara, MacKinlay Kantor, John Crowe Ransom, Delmore Schwartz, John Hall Wheelock, Robert…

Course descriptions, achievement levels, objectives, suggested required and supplementary materials, course outlines, time allotments, suggested teaching approaches, film and book lists, and bibliographies for teachers are provided for each of 25 elective English courses which are phased on five levels for high school juniors and seniors. Each…