This selected, annotated bibliography reflects the emphasis of sinologists on the early period (roughly 600 B.C. to 300 A.D.) of Chinese rhetoric. The 42 items listed in the annotated bibliography are divided into overviews of early Chinese intellectual history, secondary sources on rhetoric, and translations of primary sources. The books and…

Drawn from articles, books, book chapters, and audio and visual materials, this bibliography contains nearly 900 items pertaining to George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." The items are arranged in a topical format under the following headings: (1) biographical materials, (2) general comment and literary criticism, (3) science and…

The annotated bibliography lists 48 articles, atlases, dictionaries, bibliographies, and general and subject indexes on Buddhism. The bibliography is intended to provide college students with an introduction to the more complex literature of Buddhism and to stimulate further research and study. Topics include the history of Buddhism; the practice…

Discusses the usefulness of knowing more about the history of reading and provides a multinational list of sources. (FL)

Updating a 1984 publication, this bibliography lists and briefly annotates 35 selected books (published from 1957 to 1987) about the censorship of sexual materials from ancient times to the present. A list of five reference sources is included for those who wish to add materials from periodicals. (SR)

Produced on the hundredth anniversary of "Pinocchio" in an attempt to draw a comparison of the books for children and young people produced between the end of the eighteenth and the end of the nineteenth centuries in various countries, this catalog, primarily in Italian, begins with a bilingual (Italian and English) discussion of children's…

Papers presented at a symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Rural Sociology of the University of Wisconsin-Madison are collected in this volume. The first four papers--by Olaf Larson, Edward Moe, Daryl Hobbs, and Robert Gard--discuss the department's history, emphasizing the contributions of outstanding…

Explores how Asian-American literature provides unique access to understanding the social history of an often misunderstood American racial minority group. (CRH)

Art education is a subject which is both misunderstood and undervalued in high schools. The purpose of this literature review of materials about art education was to prove that art education goes beyond mere skills acquisition and is a cognitive course of study. The annotated bibliography provided in the paper is divided into four areas. The first…

The amount of information available on Women's Studies has increased dramatically over the past two decades. Therefore, a brief bibliography of texts which focuses on women and history has been compiled. The items are grouped under the following headings: articles (published in a journal), bibliographies (including teaching guides and sources to…

This annotated bibliography lists publications which explore the various aspects of women's relation to literature. The items are grouped under the following headings: (1) articles (published in a journal); (2) books (single-author texts); and (3) collections (essays and documents, generally reprinted from other sources). (BZ)

Reviews the Henry Louis Gates Jr. memoir, "Colored People," and Julius Lester's novel of the civil rights movement, "And All Our Wounds Forgiven." Discovers a number of salient points concerning the black experience of integration in both books. Considers some of the interesting questions raised and their possible use in class…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 19 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the ethics of violence as political strategy in contempory drama; (2) the history of Italian-American theatre from 1900 to 1905; (3) the development of the…

The 37 references in this annotated bibliography are compiled for researchers of information on the censorship of sexual materials from ancient times to present. The materials include case studies, histories, essays, and opinion pieces about the use and regulation of "obscenity" in literature, pictorial art, radio broadcasting, the mail, film, and…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the response of the law to visual journalism from l839 to l978; (2) woman's image in authoritative Mormon discourse; (3) the depiction of computers and computer-related subjects in…