The existential implications in Bontemps'"Black Thunder," Richard Wright's "Native Son," and Ellison's "Invisible Man" are explored in this paper. Each of these novels exhibits a concern about man structuring his existence through the choices he makes in an absurd world. Gabriel, the protagonist of "Black…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection contains essays by Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, Martin Buber, Ernst Robert Curtius, Oskar Seidlin, Hans Mayer, G. W. Field, Jeffrey Sammons, and the editor, Theodore Ziolkowski--all dealing with the biography and literary work of Hermann Hesse.…

The development of German writing since World War II in Switzerland, Austria, the German Democratic Republic, and the Federal Republic of Germany is discussed. In the first four chapters of this book, social and intellectual transformations that have occurred since 1945 in these four German-speaking countries are described. The literary forms of…

This book, comprising about 600 entries, is an attempt to compile a comprehensive general bibliography of modern Irish drama. Other bibliographies have been selective or have dealt mainly with individual playwrights, but this volume attempts to update and consolidate in one volume all the existing bibliographies containing secondary material, plus…

Describes the separation of modern professional writers from the real world and their misplaced concern with presenting an image of toughness instead of truly communicating. (DD)

This is an English abstract of a Japanese article which discusses the attraction of the Japanese public to a new literary style based on oral language patterns. (JM)

Examines the diversity found in utopian views and social orders, focusing on the dichotomy between mechanistic and organic values found in current literature, philosophy, and sociology. Demonstrates the historical role of these values in the genesis of the United States. Argues for a dual American Dream, encompassing both arcadian and utopian…

Reviews Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die," pointing out the values of a courageous display of duty to others and to tasks at hand, and a vision that appreciates the natural order of life. (EL)

Using Richard Wright's novel "Black Boy" as a model to work on, the author illustrates a 4-dimensional approach to the teaching of foreign literature: (1) scientific definition of the goals, (2) making a teaching plan, (3) defining methods, and (4) actual use on a teaching model. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Describes the life and writings of children's author, Jean Craighead George. (RB)

Interprets the play as having a protagonist who is suspended between the two cultures of imperialism and anit-imperialism, and as concerning its protagonist's conversion from an apolitical emigre, aloof from African affairs, into a warrior for the independence of his homeland. (Author/JM)

Reviews background and work of contemporary writers Joaquin de Entrambasaguas, Concha Suarez del Otero, Enrique Llovet, and Manuel Rios Ruiz. (RS)

Part of a continuing series. (DD)