Contends that feminist criticism can bring vitality to college English programs deep in the doldrums. (DD)

Discusses the parallels and differences in the writings of Rudyard Kipling and Rosemary Sutcliff, noting that Kipling is detached and objective while Sutcliff is involved and subjective. (HOD)

Examines Thomas Reid's philosophy of rhetoric and identifies the principles to which he was committed, including his classification of knowledge, emphasis on artistic expression, and theory of natural signification. (JMF)

Argues that Bitzer's situational theory accounts for forms of rhetorical creativity through the definition of controlling elements of situations, for the production of rhetoric as purposive action, and for the degree of accuracy or clarity with which observable features of situations have been interpreted. (JMF)

Compares the actual Christopher Robin Milne with the character of Christopher Robin as found in the verses of A. A. Milne. (HOD)

Investigates the ways in which Haugaard's techniques and the choices and concerns common to his novels express and exemplify a basic philosophy of life. (HOD)

With reference to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, the author argues that realism as a special movement in the cinema is defensible and that its rejection by critics has been due to their mistaken assumption that realism is based on the doctrines of the "innocent eye" and the "artless style." (Author/SJL)

The author examines the nature of metacritical writing as a distinct form of inquiry within the literature of arts education. He makes a number of generalizations about such writings and maintains that there are several logically distinct kinds of tasks which writers undertake when they theorize about art criticism. (Author/SJL)

Discusses the use of excerpts from "Boswell's Life of Johnson" with high school students and suggests that Boswell's scholarship reflects a form of literary research. (MKM)

Continues an ongoing debate with Charles Willard and other argumentation scholars. Examines the claim that arguments are essentially nondiscursive phenomena by reviewing relevant empirical evidence. Assesses the utility of formal characterizations and hermeneutic inquiry as tools of argument analysis by considering the practical problems intrinsic…

The author briefly surveys some of the claims made about the presumed nature of film as language and some of the problems that arise. He considers the views of two influential schools of film criticism: the Russian formalists (Pudovkin and Eisenstein) and the British semiologist (Peter Wollen). (Author/SJL)

Examines Kenneth Burke's uses of the term "substance" as the key to his approach to language as symbolic action. Substance as consciousness achieved through verbalization is manifest in three behaviors: naming, forming, and structuring. (JMF)

Presents a redefinition of the concept of ethical appeal as an appeal that asks an audience for full and careful appraisal of both the meaning and the intent of what is being said. The audience must determine for itself whether or not the appeal should be accepted or rejected. (JMF)

Discusses J. L. Austin's treatment of perlocution and extends it to an analysis of five types of perlocution. Proposes a set of conditions necessary and sufficient for consummation of any perlocutionary act. (JMF)

Discusses the appeal to children of Gene Kemp's Tamworth Pig books and "The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler," which won the Carnegie Medal in 1978. (HOD)