In "The Red Badge of Courage," Stephen Crane overcomes serious artistic difficulties to depict a complicated psychological change in his protagonist, Henry Fleming, an unsophisticated and inarticulate farm boy. To embody the development of this protagonist, Crane uses a series of thematically-related incidents and a set of thematic…

There is a wealth of material in the oral tradition of fantasy which can be used in creating gripping fiction for young readers. One way of employing a tale from the oral tradition to produce a modern fantasy is to superimpose the old story on a new one in such a way that it is tightly interwoven in the action and meaning of the new story. This…

This paper describes an approach to teaching students to become more sensitive to voice, audience, and meaning in fiction. Examined are several passages of monologue, including a passage spoken by a character named Mr. Tyler in the opening of E.M. Forster's "The Story of a Panic." The rhetorical triangle made up of speaker, audience, and subject…

This newsletter deals with public conceptions of science. Included is a "Survey on Public Attitudes toward Science: Some Key Questions." This inventory, with topic areas, specific questions, and dates of surveys may be useful for research on changing patterns of public understanding of science. Other articles are: "An Annotated,…

The more than 400 titles listed in this bibliography of paperbacks include fiction and nonfiction books which would interest adolescent readers. Entries are listed alphabetically by author, and the publisher and price of each paperback are given. (JM)

This book contains an edited transcription of the proceedings of the Conference on Teaching Creative Writing held at the Library of Congress in January 1973. Directors of the four pioneer writing programs in the United States presented papers and led the panel discussions. Panel members were distinguished graduates of or participants in these…

This book is divided into twelve sections and contains photographs from many of the films discussed. The introduction defines film genre and describes the general theories behind this book; "The Individual Film" analyzes the film "Little Caesar" as it relates to the genre of gangster films; "Comparative Forms"…

The sixty-one items listed in this annotated bibliography consist of literary fiction of India. Grade levels are indicated for each book and, except for two books for grades ten and eleven, the books fall into the grade range of kindergarten through ninth grade. (JM)

The purpose of this study was to discover whether tragedy exists in realistic fiction for eight-to-12-year-old children and, if so, to present selected exemplifications of this mode. The study assumed that children should be exposed to the tragic sense of life in their literature, and the child psychologists and critics of children's books who…

Selected from the reference library of current children's books housed at the National Book League in London, the 323 books in this annotated bibliography reflect the author's personal selection of those works which seemed most worth noticing from the publications of 1971. Books are categorized into picture books, fictional stories for five to…

Selected from the reference library of current children's books housed at the National Book League in London, the 323 books in this annotated bibliography reflect the author's personal selection of those works which seemed most worth noticing from the publications of 1972. Books are categorized into picture books, fictional stories for five to…

This bibliography was compiled to assist high school and junior college teachers in planning a classroom unit on Appalachian literature. It contains suggested fiction and poetry, as well as general background reading. Topic entries are: Bibliographies; Chicago; Fiction; Folklore; General Background Reading (includes psychological, sociological and…

This content analysis examines social values in the tenth grade literature anthologies of four major publishers. Basic hypotheses deal with interrelationships of narrative sequence, thematic development, and world view. It was hypothesized that fiction would follow a predictable sequence and main characters would be aided by an outside force or…

A compilation is presented of recommendations of teachable literary works. (JH)