Discusses how the nonfiction genre of natural history literature (particularly by women writers) provides a valuable addition to the college English curriculum. (MM)

Argues that Jewish literature and the Jewish perspective should be given some representation in college world literature courses. (MM)

This article discusses the author's experience of teaching Edgar Allan Poe as part of the American literature survey at Elmira College in Elmira, New York. While his specialty is Mark Twain, his students would be much happier if they could skip the colonial and national period, and move directly to studying Poe. In this article, the author…

Shows how teachers can increase students' general appreciation of literature and improve students' writing skills by studying literature with legal issues and images of the law. Cites several examples of such literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," and Jonathan…

Relates one teacher's experiences while teaching literature and composition to prison inmates. (HOD)

Explains why courses on adolescent and children's literature are valuable additions to the college English curriculum. Outlines the content for both courses offered at Youngstown State University in Ohio. (MM)

Describes how "jigsawing," a teaching method using two types of group inquiry in sequence, is uniquely suited to the classroom analysis of literature with multiple perspectives. Outlines the procedure with examples from lessons on Judith Guest's "Ordinary People." (MM)

Relates a literature class's analysis of a work. Notes student discovery that meaning in a fantasy work resided in a matrix of the author's structuring of the text, the reader's re-creation of that structure internally, and the subsequent development of agreed upon meaning within the group. (MM)

Argues that it is not enough to teach students the techniques of interpreting literature, but that it is necessary to demand that students develop cultural literacy. States that college teachers need to show students that they too read literature for its bearing on the common life. (MM)