Recent Afro-American initiation novels stressing the community as the source of life stand in antithesis to novels by Black and White Americans describing a life of isolation, negation, and alienation. (DD)

Shows how subjective knowledge acquires authority. Applies this argument to the making of literary responses in classrooms, thereby allowing both research and pedagogy to emerge from the same procedures of reading. (RL)

Describes how the linguistic and cultural diversity among Native Americans is reflected in their literature, and provides a bibliography of and about Native American literature. (DD)

Presents the results of a national survey of motives, attitudes, and orientations relative to graduate training in rhetoric-composition. (RL)

An experimental bibliography course designed for prospective graduate students suggests three major course content divisions. The unit topics include: (1) evaluation of the usefulness of reference tools, (2) discussion of literary periodicals, structure of modern articles, and documentation, and (3) an introduction to descriptive-analytical…

Looks at Melville's narrative construction of "onion-like...layers of truth" that combine romance and textbook, presents critics' discussion and scholars' treatment of the cetological information present in the text, offers an explanation for the lack of recognition due to the nonfictional parts of "Moby Dick." (JK)

An essay which grew out of a paper presented at Forum on the Status of Women in the Profession at annual convention of Modern Language Association of America (New York, December 27, 1970). (Editor)

Historically, homosexual literature has been ignored, destroyed, and misinterpreted by tacit agreement of all the respectable forces in our homophobic culture. (JH)

Analyzes how literary training in content, character, style, and world view might affect one's view of the world of politics. (DD)

Analyzes the "deconstructive" literary criticism of J. Hillis Miller and the opposition between it and other schools of criticism. (DD)

Advances in technology have greatly increased industry's demand for qualified technicians. The role of the technician has become more sophisticated and is essential in modern industry. (HH)

Identifies several words and phrases pervasive in the everyday speech of literary critics and teachers, interprets them, analyzes the pattern they form, and draws conclusions from their patterns of significance. (DD)

Looks at student resistances to feminist discussions and agendas in the classroom, or more generally, to a collective moral and ethical rhetoric. Considers how instructors can move their students beyond the public/private split that forms the basis of their resistance. Views the classroom as a place to examine resistances and identifications. (TB)

Recommends teaching syllogistic reasoning and fallacies in the undergraduate writing course. (JL)