The countermovement to the women's liberation movement has been varied both in origin and organization and has been slow in making its impact. Presented in this paper is an analysis of several countermovement strategies which focus upon the issues of opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion law reform, and arguments about the nature of…

This paper has reviewed research in "modeling" or observational learning that supports basic elements of social learning theory. The authors point out that past modeling research has not taken into account subjects' self-evaluation and task competence as factors possibly mediating the acquisition and performance of behavior. Social comparison,…

This study was based on the idea that a structural analysis of picture storybooks might offer implications for the use of structural criticism in the teaching of children's literature. One hundred picture storybooks were analyzed inductively for certain basic components of plot structure which were termed actions. The analysis of the books…

As part of a quinmester program, this course, "The Black Novelist in America," extends an opportunity for the student to take a personal and intellectual journey into the hearts, souls, minds, and emotions of black people. The range of subject matter includes (1) distinction between the novel and other literary forms; (2) internalization…

While investigating materials for a new course at City College of New York dealing with the rhetoric of women activists, women who were previously actively involved in the "political scene" were asked to respond to the question, "Does the fact that you are a women affect the content, delivery, or reception of your ideas by the audiences you have…

This curriculum guide to a mini-course in world literature for high school students is restricted to the study of five short novels written in the twentieth century: "Demian" and "Siddhartha" by Hesse, "Platero and I" by Jimenez, "We Never Make Mistakes" by Solzhenitsyn, and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by Joyce. The objectives of the…

The thirteen papers in this collection were presented at the eleventh Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association in 1969. The general concern of the collection is an examination of the relationships between literary and social criticism and culture. The first section, consisting of four papers, includes "The Present Plight of a Man…

An advanced General Education Program has been designed to prepare an individual with the information, concepts and general knowledge required to successfully pass the American Council on Education's High School General Education Development (GED) Test. The Advanced General Education Program provides comprehensive self-instruction in each of the…

An advanced General Education Program has been designed to prepare an individual with the information, concepts, and general knowledge required to successfully pass the American Council on Education's High School General Education Development (GED) Test. The advanced General Education Program provides comprehensive self-instruction in each of the…

The author states that because of recent interest in readers theatre, or concert readings, some objective methods of assessing audience response should be developed. In the first section of the paper, she provides a rationale for a critical suggestions form. The author's guidelines for an evaluation form include the use of expert judges, an…

At this 1972 conference, upper division and graduate students from nine western colleges submitted papers on the theory, history, and criticism of rhetoric. Three of them are published in this conference report, along with the principal address. In "Rhetorical Criticism as Argument," the principal address, Wayne Brockriede suggests that useful…

This book considers the poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who foreshadowed the imaginative development of the novel - its growth in introspectiveness, interest in the individual and psychological insight, in fulness, and in an exploratory-creative use of language. These are found principally in the work of Dickens, George Eliot,…

A discussion and analysis of a novel, "The Pigman," are given. The story is described as one that appeals to adolescents and also is a good means for exemplifying how an author works. The plot is described as the story of three lonely people--two teenagers and an old widower. It is a novel revealing the duality of life through the use of…

Various definitions of culture are examined with respect to their possible implications concerning the study of Chinese culture through literary analysis. Observing the difficulty of direct Chinese culture study, the author suggests that Chinese majors consider literary sources as a valid means of interpreting Chinese culture. Some 11 sets of…

The author points out differences between the historical-critical and the quantitative-empirical methodologies in speech communication. He proposes analysis of postpersuasive discourse as an intermediary ground encompassing these two approaches. Postpersuasive communication is conceptualized as the elements of ethos (credibility) which are…