Intended to provide a full range of storytelling techniques, this workbook includes 54 stories and their activities. Some stories are introduced with a fanfare and warmup section based on theatre games; some stories are preceded by commentary and source notes; and some folktales are retold with no preliminaries at all. About half of the stories…

An undergraduate "Anthropology Through Science Fiction" honors course is described. Participation in the course was by invitation only and included both anthropology and non-anthropology majors. By using science fiction, non-anthropology students quickly became familiar with weekly topics and anthropology majors found the readings a new way to…

Provides some suggestions for using children's fiction as an extension of the study of ecology. Ten picture books and seven fiction titles are provided and briefly described. (PEB)

A syntax of fiction would be concerned with the semantics, stylistics, and syntactics of extended fictive utterances. (JH)

This booklet, containing eight instructional modules on works by major British writers, can be used either within a lower-level literature course for non-English majors or in a survey course for English majors. The first four modules focus on works from the early English period through the Elizabethan Age: "Beowulf,""Sir Gawain and the Green…

Books for this annotated list have been measured against commonly accepted literary standards. Fiction is considered in terms of important themes, substantial plots, effective style, valid management of time and place settings, and believable characters whose personalities hold significance for children, from preschoolers to fourteen-year-olds.…

In both speaking and writing, the goal is communication with the intended audience. Rejecting the view that rhetoric is based on an established set of conventions, this article examines the writings of Charles Dickens as models of rhetorical expression. Passages from Dicken's novels illustrate how the writer violated grammatical rules and broke…

Pointing to the widespread neglect afforded to the works of nineteenth century Afro-American women authors, this paper discusses, and presents excerpts from, the works of many of these authors to show the types of concerns they wrote about. Among the works discussed are the following: the slave narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Elizabeth Keckley;…

Twenty-two short stories and seven novels, each with a woman journalist as a major character, were used in an analysis of the image of the woman journalist in four time periods (1890-1920, 1920-1940, 1940-1945, and 1945 to the present). The themes of the stories changed over time, often reflecting the prevailing cultural attitudes about working…

Compiled for use by students in the United States, this annotated bibliography of materials by or about Koreans contains more than 60 entries. The materials are listed according to the recommended grade level or difficulty and are divided into three sections. The first contains a listing of fiction and autobiography for both elementary and…

The purposes of this collection of 15 essays on specific works of fiction for children and adolescents are threefold: to explore some of the similarities and differences in fiction for children in England and the United States; to point out some of the qualities of American literature that are of particular interest to children in England and to…

The literature of Polish, Greek and Italian American women has been largely neglected in the American literary tradition. Through an analysis of female characters in a number of white ethnic autobiographical novels, this paper stresses the importance of an awareness of women's struggles which coincide with immigration history. It also points out…

Intended to bring a broad range of titles of children's literature to the attention of those concerned with the reading needs and interests of children and young people, this annotated bibliography contains more than 1,000 entries. Each entry provides the author and title of the work, its publisher, price, International Standard Book Number…

Intended for use by librarians, teachers, parents, and community workers as a guide to good children's literature, this annotated bibliography contains more than 1,000 entries. Each entry provides author and title, publisher, date of publication, price, and International Standard Book Number (ISBN). Age level is also indicated. The entries are…