Examines the identity of female characters who rescue male protagonists in three works of Newbery-winning fiction, and realizes their archetypal roles of Mother. Provides readers with a vehicle for revisiting the interaction among characters in young adult fiction. Presents a rationale for using literary criticism to help students explore how…

Argues that modern cultural and literary forces have altered the direction of literary criticism. Suggests that structuralist criticism has given way to poststructuralism. Asserts that poststructuralism represses differences between apparently separate things while holding that words assume meaning through the operation of language. Critiques…

Examines the representation of women in Vietnam War literature and films within a context of changing gender relationships in American society. Argues that critical attention needs to be given to the structure of masculinity and its relationship to warfare. (MS)

Film reviews by Stanley Kauffmann are presented, most of which originated in "The New Republic," and cover the years 1967-70. The reviews discuss the major American and Foreign films of that period. In addition to his original review, Kauffmann sometimes publishes afterthoughts about the film. (JK)

The use of the computer for literature should turn from automatic content analysis to a new study of how, why, and under what conditions the text is fulfilled with meaning by its readers, thereby shaping new directions in the exploration of human interaction with the literary text. (CMV)

The author reviews five selected men's magazines: Argosy, Esquire, Penthouse Magazine, Playboy and True. (12 references) (SJ)

Presents a questioning look at some of the contentions of the Peter Principle. (Editor)

A tongue-in-cheek appeal for greater recognition and appreciation of a fictitious contemporary poet. (RD)

Demonstrates study of macrostructure of a story to show how this technique leads to a clearer understanding of its literal meaning and how it can give the reader a clue to its symbolic meaning. Suggests macrostructure analysis provides systemative and objective account of plot content and structure. (Author/BK)

The author discusses the following question: "How can fiction, which consists primarily of particular statements about human nature, be said to give us universal truths?" (Author/SJL)

Examines women's art within the context of art by men, viewing the works as an ongoing intertextual debate. Uses this approach to analyze two nineteenth-century films: "Morning Bath" and "Fatima." Juxtaposes "Fatima" with the 1973 film, "Take Off." Shows how these works form an intertextual network, with the…

Explores populist ideology by examining it in the content and expression of "Roman Scandals," a musical film of the 1930s. (MM)

Analyzes the rhetoric of the 1850s' Know-Nothing party, the first national political party to use nativism successfully in its platform. Concludes that nativist rhetoric's success and failure lies in the traditional values party members used to overcome the constraints traditionally imposed upon the nativist response to the rhetorical situation.…

Examines a previous empirical study on the complexity of structured programing techniques and concludes that all of the Nassi-Schneiderman diagrams which employed structured programing techniques contained programing errors. A programing solution to the multilevel control break reporting logic problem is then presented. (LRW)