This essay on Plato's Ion looks at the power of the creative spirit to move its audience and presents an ironic view of the poet. (MT)

In both Frost and Lowell the most compelling gesture of obligation is the final demur, the turning away into silence. (DD)

A critical analysis and rejection of Stanley Fish's reader-oriented theory of criticism. (DD)

Contends that the four major types of popular literature (science fiction, mayhem, horror, and whodunit) reveal the personalities of their readers. (DD)

Discusses Reyes' approach to criticism and his description of the process of criticism. Also analyses one of Reyes' creative works, Las Roncas. (Author/AM)

Reproduction is part of the regulations of daily speech. Everyday experience shows there are different ways to convey the same information: starting sentences that are quickly rephrased using other words, manuscripts passing through draft states before the writer decides upon the final version. In more ways than one, any text is always but the…

Analyzes the fourteenth century English poem "Patience" as a commentary on society's reactions to the crises of the latter half of that century. (TO)

This article proposes the use of the historical examination of ideas in sports and physical education (JA)

The author gives the reader a detailed analysis of metaphor. He classifies them in four distinct groups and gives many examples to prove his point. (MR)

When the joint experiences of a poem, poet, reader, and listener are met, there is a communion of spirits that is both test and fruition of the interpretive act. (Author)

George C. Homan's theory on social exchange is critically examined and found to have serious shortcomings with regard to its deductive and inductive aspects. An expecially prominent shortcoming concerns the tautological character of his concept of reward," which makes his theory deductively unclear and empirically untestable. Homan's critique…

Voltaire's indictments against history as a discipline are examined in context and against his philosophical outlook. (AP)