This paper focuses on the geographic area that lies south of Baghdad, the area between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf, an area now under occupation by United States forces. The paper's focus is approximately 4300 years before, yet it hopes in the end to explain the rhetorical relevance of that time, that place, and the particular figure of an…

Religious narratives can and do cross borders through communicative practices and arenas that span cultures. The ideas and conceptual tools enshrined in another culture's stories can be appropriated in one of two ways by another culture--either through using such a text to denigrate the originator culture or to adapt the ideas within to the new…

Continuing series on latest publications of fiction in world literature. (DS)

Abstracts of nine ERIC documents which analyze the importance of intercultural understanding, present world literature's role in achieving this end, and provide teachers with background information on several cultures are presented. (Author/SP)

A plan is outlined for the systematic handling of bibliographical data from the time the book is printed anywhere in the world until its cataloguing in libraries. The various problems are set forth and possible solutions are proposed. (9 references) (Author/MM)

Identifies certain strategies applicable to the teaching of "every masterpiece of world literature", regardless of its genre, so as to make literature, as a liberal art, contribute to the student's ability to organize and interpret and communicate experience. (Editor/RK)

Reminds us that the concept of World Literature as literary study contributing to the humanistic goal of universal tolerance was first expressed by Goethe, and indicates several ways of teaching German literature with that goal in mind. (Editor)

Argues that Jewish literature and the Jewish perspective should be given some representation in college world literature courses. (MM)

This document is a bibliography of books written by Caribbean women writers. Authors and their works are organized by the country of their origin; these include: Antigua, Barbados/USA, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Matinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad/Tobago, and Trinidad/USA. Books of interest to children and young…

This edition of the "Virginia English Bulletin" is devoted primarily to articles about multiple-elective programs in high school English classes. These articles include: (1) "Multiple Electives in the English Curriculum" by R. Baird Shuman; (2) "Creative Dramatics: A Natural for the Multiple Electives Program" by…

Discusses the concrete poetry movement in Europe and illustrates "image texts"--studies in the illegibility or ambiguity of writing and the disintegration of language. (HOD)

This listing of doctoral degrees in foreign languages is organized by major field, listed alphabetically. Within each field, institutions are given alphabetically, as are candidates' names. The thesis director's name is provided. (CHK)