Women's literature is not a literary category and the teaching of women's literature is a subversion of women's liberation. (DD)

Organizes fiction by providing plot models for romances, high mimetic works, low mimetic works, and ironic works. (DD)

Concludes that a stanza is more than just typography; it is a normative unit of a poem's development. (DD)

Lessons, controversies, implications, and audience reaction to film festivals. (DAG)

Modern criticism is scientifically homogenizing the literary canon into a mass of data from which the critic can construct mental patterns. (DD)

Discusses an interdisciplinary course which showed how physics could provide insights into literature. (DD)

Argues that ideology is a type of rhetoric that escapes, rather than challenges, contradiction through the joint use of false consciousness and rational discourse. Contends that critics necessarily take an ideological position when criticizing ideology, and offers a perspective for overcoming the tendency to advance self-interest as "truth." (SR)

Analyzes Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s dissenting position on Vietnam by considering it as representative of the mode of foreign policy argument called "technocratic realism." Argues that such dissent can offer only an incomplete critique of U.S. foreign policy, because it does not question the policy's underlying purposes. (SR)

Applies Kenneth Burke's "Five Dogs" segment in "Language as Symbolic Action" to analyze Mother Teresa's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. (MM)

Discusses the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School and how it offers a way of seeing normally obscured relations of social power in the details of modern capitalist culture. Concentrates on claims about critical theory that have functioned as strategies of denial. (MS)

Suggests that the essay, despite its second-class status in academia, is a compelling form. Argues that articles have replaced essays as a result of poststructuralist criticism and its preoccupation with ontological questions, resulting in a set of highly technical terms and conceptually difficult problems which exclude the casual reader. (ARH)

Offers a dissenting interpretation of Adam Smith's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres and a more conservative perspective on Smith's significance to the history of rhetorical theory. Views the lectures as an historical commentary on literature and rhetoric from the perspective of an eighteenth-century lecturer. (JD)

Offers a critique of C. H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon's "Rhetorical Traditions and the Teaching of Writing" focusing on three language constructions that operate in the book: (1) dichotomy of the mechanical and organic, (2) use of assertions and evidence, and (3) the removal of Plato from any relationship with rhetoric except an…

Discusses Laura Mulvey's 1975 essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," and the ideas about feminist film theory and psychoanalysis as a critical tool which it raises. Suggests contradiction is the central issue in feminist film theory. Explores definitions of women's cinema. (SA)

Discusses the children's books written by Noel Streatfield and Arthur Ransome on the basis of their biographies. Concludes that both wrote about middle-class characters who must face adversity.