Clarifies some common misconceptions about the nature of narcissism and projection and employs recent developments in post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory to explain how projective activities are filtered and altered by a certain notion of textual objectivity: objectivity as defined by the text's material signifiers. (FL)

Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain" is perhaps the best short introduction to Indian literature for non-Indian students. (JH)

The Bible still offers artists their basic myths and patterns for interpreting the American experience.

There is available a large body of oral Native American literature valuable both as an alternate American literary tradition and for the light it throws on white American pioneers. (JH)

The romance as a form of literary narrative retains its popularity because romance translates into conscious forms and unconscious struggles everyone goes through. (JH)