Describes "doing" literary criticism with secondary students, illustrated with S. E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders." Discusses evaluating a book in terms of how well it represents the reader's life experience, the author's desired response, and as an expression of the author. Discusses evaluating other criticisms of the book.…

Analyzes Gertrude Stein's approach to detective fiction through her text, "Subject Cases: The Background of a Detective Story." Argues that Stein's lesbianism raises a fear of homosexuality repressed in detective fiction. Concludes that Stein's readers may prefer her word play and opaque plot lines to any premature resolution. (SG)

Responds to five articles in this issue of "The Counseling Psychologist" concerning moving counseling to a more global perspective. States that the articles: (1) provide insight into the great variety of issues that multiculturalism brings to counseling; (2) have the potential to increase the validity of counseling psychology research,…

Presents a selection of interpretations in the psychoanalytic literature of "Hamlet," by William Shakespeare, beginning with an extensive look at the role this literature played in Sigmund Freud's mind at the origins of psychoanalysis. Also examines later interpretations. (SR)

States that the twofold question for many film and video makers has been how to elicit the viewer's identification with the screen composition and what specific psychological, cultural, and political significance to give it. Finds that the playwright, Samuel Beckett, addressed this question in two films, "Film" and "Eh Joe."…

Addresses the issue of epistemology and library and information science by considering Michel Foucault's essay "La Bibliotheque Fantastique" which is a work of literary criticism rather than a scientific analysis. Highlights include implications of the positivist perspective for conceptualizing the modern library experience; and an…

Proposes that deafness can be seen as an avenue into a theoretical discourse rather than either the infirmity that blocks communication or a subject for a simple thematic exposition as would be found in an analysis of "deafness in literature." Looks at the deafened movement as it dialectically approaches the critic, the reader, and the text. (TB)

Examines the dissonant and "camp" effect inherent in describing "Johnny Guitar" as a Joan Crawford western. Argues that the film's camp effect depends on its crossing of a female star vehicle with the western, a stereotypically masculine genre. Summarizes Crawford's childhood and rise to fame. Concludes by exploring the lesbian…

Discusses Joe Hembus's "Western-Lexikon," a German encyclopedia of the western, and one particular entry: "Der Schatz im Silbersee," or "Treasure of Silver Lake," a uniquely German western adapted from a story by Karl May. Explores the impact that this film had on the European--and eventually, American--filmmaking…

Explores the similarities and differences between the portrayals of General George Armstrong Custer in "They Died with Their Boots On" (1941) and "Son of the Morning Star" (1991). Analyzes the effects of revisionist history and ideological transformations that occurred in the 50 years between the 2 films. (PA)

Identifies Senator Bob Packwood's public response to charges of sexual misconduct as a "rhetorical subterfuge" that exhibits a cluster of terms implicit in Kenneth Burke's principle of perfection. Shows how the principle of perfection allowed for the assemblage and analysis of Packwood's "fragmentary" discourse in accordance…

Addresses three myths relating to distance education: (1) for video-based distance education, the higher the frames per second the better; (2) the more interaction, the better; and (3) instructor training is required for anyone planning to teach at a distance. (LRW)

Can there be an aesthetic difference between an original painting and its forgery if they are visually indistinguishable? Answers of different philosophers are critically examined with the conclusion that none of them is satisfactory. Although their "solutions" stem from different views of the nature of art, they have one thing in common: They all…

The Blackwell Companion and Blackwell Guide to the philosophy of education, edited respectively by Randall Curren and by Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith and Paul Standish, are potentially field-defining volumes. The present essay moves back and forth between the two books to assess the overall impression they provide of the "state of the…

The rhetorical/discursive turn, in its multiple disciplinary masks, is here to stay. Even psychology is giving in to its charm. The Sophists can smile again, the agora is back, and the solipsistic self is in retreat. Dialogical, narrative, and cultural psychologies, as well as the counselling profession, triumph the return of the social, the…