To determine present trends in junior novels, researchers compared 23 novels written after 1959 with characteristics of junior novels written before that date. The following trends were identified: (1) The action in the majority of novels occurs over a few months. (2) Simple and compound sentences often connected by "and" predominate. (3) The…

Several of the poems are analyzed in terms of their Biblical references, and suggestions for further study are given. (SP)

author argues for inclusion of modern poetry in high school English curriculum; he includes lists of critical works and anthologies. (SP)

Two professors offer positive and negative responses to the need for an accurate representation of reality in literature, offering insights into the ways that reality forces itself on art. (RL)

Offers a selection of resources on modernism and modern poetry for secondary teachers of modern poetry to use for independent study. Comments on a rhetorical approach to poetry, backgrounds to modern poetry, and four modern poets. Describes the benefits of these resources to a poetry teacher. (PRA)

Discusses Dylan Thomas' poetry as examples of an art form evolving from real, human experience to word pictures which communicate a message in the sense of a vision . . . YofI the meaning of existence." (Author/SW)

Presents several teachers' recommendations for short-story anthologies to use in junior-high or high-school English classes. (MM)

Describes a teacher's modern literature class, where she encourages her students to write freely and to create cubist or abstract works of art. Describes the students' progress and asserts that their attempts to search for insight without having definite, preset answers is enough to help them appreciate modern literature. (PRA)

A discussion of the power of first person narrative and the modern predilection for personal witness, especially among the young. Explores personalized reporting based on direct experience, passive observation (or vicarious experience), and the public announcing of personal views, and relates all to the teaching of English, particularly…

Reviews two books by Ivan Doig: "This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind" and "English Creek." Notes that both books provide a picture of life in the American West that is not pervaded by Western stereotypes of cowboys and Indians. (MM)

Use of little magazines in English classrooms would benefit both students and publishers. (JH)

Reviews Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die," pointing out the values of a courageous display of duty to others and to tasks at hand, and a vision that appreciates the natural order of life. (EL)

Examines the symbolism and theme of Eudora Welty's Petrified Man" and finds the most pitiless indictment of the venal spirit of modern civilization. (Author)

Explains that J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" contains an underlying moral code which predominates the controversial elements of the novel. States that a close textual analysis and candid discussion are necessary to appreciate the novel's literary merits and to understand its controversial elements. (MM)