The author notes the growing use of scientific concepts in contemporary experimental novels, as well as the development of structuralism, a method of literary criticism drawing heavily upon the sciences. He suggests that these are valuable trends toward strengthening the bridge between the sciences and the humanities. (Author/SJL)

A critical analysis of the social and rhetorical flaws in the writings of George Orwell. (DD)

Proposes that Flannery O'Connor's work should be judged apart from the author's comments about it. Suggests her work should be evaluated on its own merits, read as fiction that represents and reflects the real world. Concludes that O'Connor was a "religious propagandist of minor importance who wrote didactic fiction." (PM)

Uses the author's poems to illustrate the interrelationships among a poem's rhythm, lineation, and syntax. (MM)

Offers an analysis of the meanings and importance in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" of Piggy's fire-giving glasses. (SR)

Considers how the arrival of "Twentieth-Century Literature" is exciting because it produces not a dead object but a newly live one, one that is just coming into being and whose final shape we can only guess. Presents seven educators' opinions of what "Twentieth-Century Literature" will be. (SG)

Surveys plays written by black playwrights from 1917 to the present time. (GW)

Examines Victor Hugo's "Ninety-three," Charles Dickens'"Tale of Two Cities," and Eugene Zamiatin's "We" as examples of romantic satire, considering in each work the quest motif, the oedipal themes, the dystopian vision, and the role of love. (AYC)

Generally accepted interpretations and criticisms of Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" since the 1920s are chronicled and critiqued from the point of view of an admitted "Finnophile". (MSE)

Discusses the influence of Mr. L. (George Horace Lorimer), mentioned in Brecht's diaries, on Brecht's writing style. (DD)