Thirty years ago, Canada's population was largely homogeneous then. As such, there was no question of what teachers need to teach. However, now that Canada's population has diversified, teachers like the author, ask themselves what culture they need to represent in their class. In this article, the author describes how he lets his class deal with…

Examines three recent French translations of Louis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark." (PMP)

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…

Describes a teacher's environmental approach to English Literature. (GB)

Examines the history and usage of the words "lay" and "lie." (MM)

Suggests how an English lesson can be made interesting by relating yesterday's literature to today's life experiences. Offers a sample of lessons integrating English literature into the language arts curriculum. (JOW)

A study of 36 women in English literature/cultural studies showed how they developed progressively more complex beliefs about knowledge by conducting textual analysis, considering texts as historically and socially situated, and considering issues of authorial intention, intertextuality, and the referential properties of language. (Author/SK)

The students can explore an entirely fascinating new world through graphic novels introduced into the classrooms. The graphic novels include genre fiction like superhero and horror stories that combine words and pictures, which are appealing to the students. Several titles with connections to traditional English literature are recommended.

The residency about which the author writes was with students at The Roeper School in Birmingham, Michigan. This school is unusual in its support for a liberal arts and process-based education. In this article the author, an accomplished director and Teaching Artist, recounts the many engaging dimensions of a student production of "Henry…

R. Burl Yarberry was born in 1920 in Pueblo, Colorado. He attended public schools in Pueblo and graduated from high school in 1938. After a year attending the Colorado School of Mines, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the Pacific during World War II. Following his discharge, he earned a BA in English from Western State College of…

This bibliography of scholarship in Old and Middle English Literature (before 1525) attempts to cover selectively the major works and topics and to represent adequately the minor ones. English and American scholarship since 1965 is emphasized. For the Old English period, entries are under the following headings: Texts; Reference and General Works;…

This work provides students of English Literature with a selective guide to important writers and their works from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present. The first chapter presents reference materials on English literature in general; each entry includes complete bibliographic information. A chronological arrangement is used in chapters two…

A description of an educational television program on Dickens' world produced by the University of Michigan TV Center. (Author/HB)

Translations generally result from two general situations: (1) where translation is the only means of understanding what has been written in another language, and (2) where a translation is an alternative and preferable means of understanding what has been written in a foreign language. In East Africa, so far as translations from English are…