Examines the compositional attributes which characterize Christian sermons as generically distinctive. (MH)

The author discusses the application of Kohlberg's model of moral development to literature as a technique for promoting value identification and moral growth in secondary school children. (MJB)

Shows the way in which Ralph Waldo Ellison--"a preeminent American moral historian"--reveals his approach to history in his essays and in his novel, "Invisible Man." (GW)

Describes the pattern of psychological and spiritual evolution in the consciousness of many of the black characters in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," by Ernest J. Gaines. (GW)

In this essay the main argument rests upon three interrelated premises. One is that social progress for the Afroamerican masses is predicated on their "racial unity" and cooperation, which, according to Cruse, cannot be accomplished without their increased concern for Black cultural heritage. (Author/AM)

A total of 47 books, primer through grade six, published from 1953 to 1968 and in use in the public schools of Grand Rapids, Michigan, are analyzed in regard to text and illustrations and compared with a set of 33 readers all published in 1975 by the same publisher. (Author)

Contends that naturalistic inquiry differs in function and form from objective inquiry in the positivist tradition and suggests that objective and naturalistic procedures are complementary in both science and communication processes. (MH)

Teachers can increase students' involvement in literature and improve their skills in research and literary analysis by assigning each student to report on an author born the same day the student was. (DD)

Describes literary accounts of the trauma of the Blitz and discusses their possible uses in the classroom. (RL)

Discusses ways to teach modern plays and poetry, using a reader response approach that makes the works more accessible to students. (HTH)

Poses the theory that Yeats' poems can be viewed as a "book" that tells a story, the narrating persona being a fictive projection of Yeats the poet. (JC)

Two women's study of writing by women in the 20th century found unexpectedly bitter and persistent anxiety and female-male conflict and a common theme of confinement and suppression of emotions and thoughts. (MSE)

Examines Jesse Jackson's rhetorical strategy of functionalizing conflict among divisive Democrats during the 1984 national convention. Applies conflict theory to Jackson's convention address, which serves as the basis for this rhetorical analysis. (JD)

Discusses the formulaic sports novels written for adolescents and the genre of such writers as John Tunis, Joe Archibald, William Campbell Gault, and John Carson. Describes several of these author's novels. (NKA)

Examines feminist theory within the context of other current philosophical discourses, particularly postmodernist deconstructionism. Argues that gender must be understood as a social relation, an undertaking that will involve the continuing deconstruction of the meanings we attach to biology, sex, gender, and nature. (KH)