Examines several themes from children's literature for the way they reflect the fears of adults and provide a warning to the young about the dangers ahead in life. (RB)

Argues that the novel should bear examination from four directions and that not only would each route illumine certain aspects of "The Catcher in the Rye" but also that each would suggest general principles applicable to all reading. (Author/RB)

Reviews and discusses the novels of three satirical novelists who dared to expose the political anarchy ravaging their own society. Historically, satire remains inseparable from the birth of the Haitian novel. (Author/AM)

Describes the narrative and analytic methods John Berger uses to show his audience oppositional alternatives in the structuring of their daily experience. (DD)

Discusses the teaching of "Bleak House" to students who are daunted by its length and complexity. Provides suggestions on how to get beyond those complexities and allow students to understand the central concerns of the book. (SRT)

This critical study of West Indian novelist George Lamming's work finds a preoccupation in his earlier works with British colonizers' betrayal of the West Indian people and its appearance as a father-son relationship. Lamming's latest work creates a less limited West Indian identity in the context of pre-colonial cultural history. (DMM)

In Toni Morrison's fiction, codes, values, and standards are the polar opposite of those set forth and accepted by the dominant (white) culture. The work must be approached from an anthropological perspective, a holistic approach. (LHW)

Most novels are trash. Most books are trash. But there is a delight in trash heaps, which were once a great source of pleasure to small-town America and are disappearing as refuse collection and treatment become more and more sophisticated. (Author)

Analyzes three parts of Tunis' novel in view of the author's opening statement, This is a book about the conscience of a man.''

Part of a panel discussion on the modern Japanese novelist presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies on March 29, 1972, in New York, New York. (DS)

Defends Bradbury as a major prose writer. Places Dandelion Wine's major theme, initiation, in American literary tradition. Explores the novel's structure, and notes the influence of Mark Twain and Melville, among others, on Bradbury. (JB)

A discussion of the dramas of the Norwegian novelist-playwright Knut Hamsun YKnutPedersenI (1859-1952). (RD)