Discusses the many world-wide stories of Cinderella, contrasting the American version with other versions in different eras and cultures. (MB)

Suggests that the consciousness-raising aspect of a women's literature course decried in an earlier issue was a positive element that could have lead to literary analysis. (MKM)

Defines the concept of reflexivity as the structuring of a product in such a way that an audience assumes that the producer, the process of making, and the product are all part of a coherent whole, and contends that an audience needs to be made aware of these relationships. (MH)

The author presents theoretical and cost-effectiveness problems relating to the use of primary prevention techniques in reducing the rate of teen-age pregnancies. (MJB)

Focuses on some of the most important features of world and national political campaigns as constructed by and presented in television network news primarily in the 1976 presidential campaign. (MH)

Discusses the exclusion of studies in children's literature from the college English curriculum and suggests benefits to English departments of offering courses on children's literature. (GW)

The author argues that by ignoring evolutionary considerations, the intelligence testing movement has precluded continued development, and in order to regain momentum it must engage in theoretical and empirical research to accommodate those considerations. (MB)

Focuses on the attempts of W. B. Yeats and W. E. B. DuBois to channel the creative arts of the Irish and Black people, respectively, into a more substantially fulfilling art, an art that took its original impulse from history, legend and myth. (Author/AM)

The 37 Caldecott Medal award-winning children's books and 129 runnerup books were subjected to a content analysis to evalute the portrayal of adults in children's literature, both fictional and nonfictional. Results were interpreted as demonstrating that children's literature portrays neither adult figures nor adult life in a realistic manner.…

Criticizes games for contributing to student failure and reduced self-esteem, and contends that games must be more closely monitored by teachers or used only to strengthen previously learned skills. (JM)

Describes a course which allowed students to exercise both creative and critical abilities in a multidisciplinary approach to an important history-of-ideas subject (nature) in American literature. (JM)

Suggests that students need to become aware of the relationship between one's writing and one's intended audience and presents a way for students to make this analysis. (JM)

Reveals that at least ten newspapers were suppressed by American military authorities. (KS)

Notes with contemporary literary theorists that language is figurative rather than referential. Advocates using the four "master tropes"--metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony--as a conceptual framework for the composing process. Suggests that these tropes each represent different strategies for presenting experience, categories for…