Defends some recent types of detective novel, which depart from the classic pattern and which, as psychological, sociological, or philosophical novels, bridge the gap between detective novels and serious literature. Value is seen in a course in the detective novel for teaching both native and foreign literatures. (IFS/WGA)

Discusses the lack of consistent accuracy about historical figures in Chaucer's "Monk's Tale." The story of Nero fishing in the Tiber with golden nets is corroborated by many other ancient and medieval authors; however, the reference to Julius Caesar as being of lowly birth is peculiar only to Chaucer and a few medieval English authors.…

A weekly letter to the class gives each student in a literature class a chance to uncover their relationship to what they are reading. (DD)

During the course of an interview, Terry Eagleton, one of England's foremost Marxist critics, talks about his political and critical position and about related contemporary developments. (HOD)

Presents a method of teaching poetry that harmoniously combines the study of the content and the structure. (TO)

Describes one teacher's method for teaching symbolism and provides several examples of student work resulting from this approach. (TO)

In teaching children's literature to university students, the author illustrates how Doris Gates' Blue Willow'' becomes an important work in moving from myth and folklore to realistic fiction. (MM)

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)

Discusses Virginia Woolf's vision of a liberated and androgynous mankind. Comment by Elaine Reuben. (RB)

Suggestions for using Dead Souls" in the high school literature class. (SP)

Defines "critical thinking" and discusses specific instances in two novels which might be analyzed by students to detect fallacious reasoning by characters in literary works. (RD)

A paper presented at annual convention of Canadian Council of Teachers of English (2nd, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, August 1969). (RD)