Examines the concept of example in Aristotle's inventional theory. Rejects recent claims that the example reasons from part to part, without a mediating generalization, and then explicates Aristotle's view of the example. (JMF)

An interview with children's literature author Theodore Taylor and an annotated bibliography of his children's books. (DD)

Discusses the Milly-Molly-Mandy books, showing that they depict a world of childhood coherent and memorable enough to be regarded as an outstanding exemplar of certain traditional values. (HOD)

Examines relationships among children's fairy tales, the North American dream of going from rags to riches, the role of sports in North American society, and the uses and misuses of biographies written for young readers. (HOD)

Discusses the metaphorical use of landscape in three novels by William Mayne. (HOD)

Explores selected aspects of the work of the "Yale School" literary critics, particularly Jacques Derrida and Geoffrey Hartman. (JT)

A mild satire on a part of the English teacher's occupation. (Author)

Suggests, through a comparison of Bleich's work with that of the Geneva School critics, that the two criticisms have a common base and interest from which they encounter similar difficulties, and that their resolutions illuminate a solution to the totalizing effects of current criticism. (DD)

Describes how an approach, limited to the reading and teaching of lyric poems, can serve as a means of opening up the world of interpretive reading to marginal readers. (DD)

Discusses Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis" and investigates its influence on our national psychology over the years. (MH)

Probes the manner in which skilled rhetoricians have used recurring rhetorical forms to build cohesion and stimulate motivation among Americans in time of war. (MH)

Examines Kenneth Burke's use of "sheer" and "sheerly" throughout eight of his major philosophical books. (MH)

Suggests that the family metaphor that was dominant in the rhetoric of both the colonists and the British government contributed to extreme polarization of positions of the British government in London and the British subjects in the thirteen North American Atlantic colonies. (MH)

Analyzes stories which show insight into children's feelings and actions. (DD)