Focuses on time aspect in modern Japanese fiction as presented in Masao Miyoshi's book on Japanese fiction, "Accomplices of Silence, The Modern Japanese Novel." Miyoshi's claims, that Japanese has no clearly established tense and that forms of past and present are interchanged, are discussed. (SC)

Sketches a model of the inductive method for teaching literature, using Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" as an example. (RB)

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the work of Hungarian literary critic and philosopher Georg Lukacs to teachers of children's literature. The first half of the paper explores the key ideas in Lukacs's literary theory, including "speciality"--an aspect of reality that falls between the extremes of individuality and universality;…

An important part of the task of an oral interpreter performing a piece of literature in translation is to deal with some of the difficulties inherent in the analysis and performance of such literature. The interpreter must examine the basic accuracy of the text; decide which of several translations to use in performance, choosing the one that…

Rhetorical movement theory suggests two portrayals of social movements: the establishment conflict, or radical innovational portrayal, and the innovational, in which the movement is seen as upholding traditional values while suggesting institutional modifications or additions. A third portrayal, the competitive, lies on the midpoint on a continuum…