Studies viewers' impressions of husbands and wives in four Ingmar Bergman films in terms of socio-intellectual status, dynamism, and aesthetic quality. The agreement of viewer ratings indicates that viewers reacted more in tune with the underlying symbolic significance of characters than did most critics. (JMF)

Offers an essay on the "obscenities" of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," to be used as a class exercise in critical reading, diction, and tone. (RL)

Recounts a method for advancing from literal to more subtle interpretations of language in literature. (HTH)

Focusing on the natural world, the use of myth and ritual in the novel, and the formal design of the work, symposium papers present and analyze crucial themes and forms in Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony," a novel distinctively Indian in narrative technique, thematic content, and structure. (CM)

Discusses the effective rhetoric of Dr. King's "Letter" in terms of his use of refutative logic to address two audiences simultaneously, using one to provide a focus through which the other could be addressed. The "Letter" is adapted to both audiences on structural, logical, and stylistic levels. (JMF)

Provides an overview of the liturature on Chaplin and the character he portrayed--Charlot, "the little fellow,"--throughout the world. (JMF)

Recent Afro-American initiation novels stressing the community as the source of life stand in antithesis to novels by Black and White Americans describing a life of isolation, negation, and alienation. (DD)

Describes the attributes of the modernized fairy tale as developed by L. Frank Baum in his Oz series. (HOD)

Illustrates how a linguist might approach literary analysis, emphasizing the behaviors of the reader. Discusses four kinds of signals of meaning, including the lexical, the grammatical, the thematic, and the cohesive. (RL)

Discusses how proverbs provide insight into the nature of socio-logic as a body of principles to guide practical reasoning. English language proverbs reflect many of the rational principles found in argumentation textbooks, including: 1) a typology of arguments, 2) rules of correct inference, and 3) cautions about potential fallacies. (JMF)

Calls for a more contextual understanding of film study, which would recognize that the discipline called "film studies" is above all a communicational system--an open system in continual and reciprocal communication with its environment or context. (JMF)

Discusses the Anglo-American concept of "liberty" and traces its origins to Elizabethan England. Analyzes the rhetorical style of Elizabeth I and concludes that she successfully "feminized" power. Argues that "liberty" is a "spirit," a feeling in the presence of a comfortable form of power, a "feminized" power. (JMF)

Reconstructs the childhood experience of reading "The Secret Garden." Relates the circumstances of that experience to thoughts about transactional criticism, human intellectual development, bibliotherapy, and psychotherapy. (JT)

McWalters denies DeSalvo's previous claim (see EJ 209 302) that "The Scarlet Letter" harms students through its message of repressed sexuality; he suggests that the book does not condemn sexuality. DeSalvo replies that "The Scarlet Letter" is presented to students in a harmful way; she again calls for the use of literature that…

Describes four stages in a reading and writing transaction involving a reader's response to literature. The four stages described are involvement, perception, interpretation, and evaluation; student writing is required at each of these stages. (MKM)