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…

One hundred books in English about the Pacific islands are reviewed. The primary work of each of 100 authors is the primary topic of the reviews, but information is also given about other writings of these authors on the Pacific islands, as well as some biographical information. Books by other writers on similar subjects are mentioned at times.…

This textbook is a sixth reader. Selections are taken from English and American literature, and when possible, conform to the original works. Many selections have elocutionary value. In making up the Selections for Reading, great care and deliberation have been exercised. Upwards of one hundred leading authors are represented, and thus a wide…

There is almost a revivalist movement in English children's classics, but the author questions their ability to survive in an increasingly mechanical age, and cautions against the negative effects of the new media and insensitive techniques of publishers. (SJ)

Author gives specific suggestions to high school teachers; he feels that pairing the two plays offers additional valuable insights into each. (Author/SP)

One of the most fruitful ways of introducing students to the Shakespearean drama is by comparing its techniques with those of a movie. (Author)

Argues that although Ben Jonson and Jonathan Swift were, for their respective ages, conservative, orthodox thinkers who defended traditional values of limit, order, and moderation, the strategies, tactics, and tone of their attacks on Puritanism and dissent were radical, even militant, and thus violated their conservatism. (DMM)

The word "black" in its Indo-European origin means fire, shining white, or flashing in various bright colors. An examination of the word's semantic history through European literary usage reveals that "black" picked up many variations through the course of time and has now metaphorically returned to its original definition.…

Kipling's view of the child, as expressed in his writings, focused on the vision of growth or becoming, fostered by activity. Action was to be directed by a firm and conservative moral code, with initiative allowed on some occasions so that change could occur. (MSE)

Speculates on the relationship between the execution of history in practice and the conceptualization of history in theory by examining the rhetorical elements in the resignation episode of the Duke of Wellington. (MH)

Suggests that the family metaphor that was dominant in the rhetoric of both the colonists and the British government contributed to extreme polarization of positions of the British government in London and the British subjects in the thirteen North American Atlantic colonies. (MH)