By classifying and analyzing actual disputes in film criticism, the author considers the following questions: Are there connections between film theory and film criticism? If so, which are healthy and which are diseased? If not, what alternative healthy function might film theory have? (Author/SJL)

Explores the viewpoint of the feminist critic, examines ways in which feminist literary criticism has been transformed by use of the personal voice, and suggests that the wealth of feminist criticism in the last few years is in part a result of there being a community of feminist readers. (JM)

Discusses why the unit of discourse for literary criticism is the essay. (DD)

Explores the rhetorical problem of concretizing the ideal via the relationship between form and fact in Richard Weaver's theory of truth. Reveals that reliance on analogic form permits Weaver's arguments to function externally and internally. Suggests that analogic structure, example, and analogy are fundamental ways of rhetorical knowing. (JMF)

Discusses the characteristics of the "new reader" and the "new novel." (AM)

Considers the insertion of the self on the part of some of the great historians of the modern period, what happens when a historian allows his feelings to show in his writing. (Author/RK)

A reply by Macnamara to Brainerd's criticism of the Macnamara (1975) article analyzing Piaget's theory of number. (JMB)

Explores the tension between critical rhetoric's "doxa" and a modernistic "episteme." Develops a revised conception of doxa positioned within a critical rhetoric, which is contrasted to episteme. Advances a conception of prudence (practical wisdom) that uses doxa as its underpinnings. Argues that the actions of the agent may be…

Analyzes how Hollywood's journalism movie genre has portrayed the news media over the years. Suggests that the movies' relationship to the press reflects a fundamentally ambivalent relationship between the press and the broader culture and that Hollywood explicitly portrays institutional and cultural tensions within journalism which the news media…

Discusses the recent developments in historical fiction, especially the "time-slip" or time travel story. Finds that this is a new wing of the historical novel, specially designed to bring past and present face to face. Describes several books about the small English village of Eyam and the Great Plague of 1664-1666. (PA)

Finds that the feminist approaches to technical communication that have lately emerged are largely oriented toward liberal feminist (emphasizing equality and rights) or radical feminist (emphasizing differences between men and women, the limitations of patriarchal culture, and the characteristics of women's ways of communicating and knowing).…

Attempts to rehabilitate the term and the practice of humanism to show, in fact, that in its pragmatic and pluralist form, humanism is inescapable for creatures with content-involving capacities. (TB)

Explores the theoretical and critical implications of feminist research on argumentation, and points to directions where feminist theory will continue to challenge predominant thinking about argumentation. Introduces the articles in this special issue on argumentation and feminisms. (PA)

Focuses on the surprising lack of critique in the pedagogical literatures of higher education in relation to the use of ideas surrounding deep and surface approaches to learning. Explores problems with the assumed relationships among conceptions of learning, perceptions of the learning environment, approaches to learning, and learning outcomes.…