This document makes theoretical and methodological assessments of several debut papers in order to discover what they reveal about the nature of interpersonal and small group phenomena and how any particular investigation distorts the phenomena studied. The papers examined discuss such topics as the nature of the attitude change process, small…

This study focuses on the rhetoric about, rather than the rhetoric of, two Revolutionary War heroines, Mary Hayes and Deborah Sampson Gannet. The rhetoric about these women is divided into three areas: the rhetoric of neglect, as practiced by conventional historians; the rhetoric of praise, as given by patriotic societies such as the Daughters of…

Entires listed in this selected bibliography were published in 1973 and should be of interest to students of public address. Items are listed under five major categories: (1) bibliography; (2) criticism: oratory; (3) argumentation: logic: debate; (4) practitioners and theorists--general (American, international); and (5) religious communication…

This essay is an examination of a particular kind of change which has been made with some frequency in recent motion pictures derived from novels. Because the market for cinema is youth and the young people of the country are largely disenchanted with foreign languages, motion pictures derived from novels are occasionally rewritten in such a way…

An historical survey of the themes, directions, trends, and artistic techniques of black writers in America provides insight into the works of such artists as Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and LeRoi Jones. (MF)

The 12 autobiographical selections in this publication were chosen to suggest the range, depth, and variety of personal experiences available through autobiography; to focus the student's attention upon his own personal experiences; and to raise artistic questions about the relationships between "inner" and "outer" experiences. The…

Although there are several kinds of short stories, all "demand an intense concision and economy and all must somehow achieve a satisfying sense of finality." Form, not subject matter, distinguishes the short story from other fiction. The traditionally plotted story consists of a "situation," the "complication," the "climax," and the "denouement."…

Selected Ukrainian poetry rendered in identical or equivalent English meter makes this annotated anthology the first comprehensive survey of this poetry in English. A substantial introduction to the literature of the Ukraine points out the historical development and sociological significance of this literature. The complete text of the 12th…

There are at least four reasons why the stereotype of Henry David Thoreau as an ascetic and a stoic have been perpetuated: (1) Emerson, in his eulogy of Thoreau, emphasized these qualities by saying, "Few lives contain so many renunciations...he ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco; and, though a naturalist, he…

The University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) has developed a training program for supervising teachers as a strategic device for improving the preparation of teachers. Training activities and events derive from a "model" of the supervisory process which emphasizes the acquisition and use of specific supervisory skills, including the…

The workshop method of teaching a college literature course has proved an effective means of stimulating independent student work, promoting teacher-student conferences, and providing for peer criticism. Discussions of both some specific principles of literary criticism and the historical background of the period to be studied introduce the…

The focus of the dramatistic approach as a method of rhetorical criticism is the message rather than the speaker, audience, or situation. Using the approach developed by Ernest Bormann, the rhetorical critic examines man's symbolic reality and reacts to it by looking for strategies that are inherent in certain dramas. Conspiracy dramas are popular…

Defining picture books as that distinctive type of publication in contemporary children's literature in which the written narrative is brief and the story line or other content is largely presented through illustrations, this book critically explores some of the problems of contemporary picture books, examining why some qualities in picture books…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Rene Wellek, Philip Rahv, Murray Krieger, Irving Howe, Eliseo Vivas, D. H. Lawrence, Sigmund Freud, Dmitri Chizhevsky, V. V. Zenkovsky, Georg Lukacs, and Derek Traversi--all dealing with the biography and literary work of…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Arthur Mizener, Wyndham Lewis, Hugh Kenner, R. P. Blackmur, Elizabeth Sewell, S. Musgrove, George L. K. Morris, F. R. Leavis, D. W. Harding, Allen Tate, Ezra Pound, William Empson, John Peter, Denis Donoghue, and Donald…