Offers a selection of resources on modernism and modern poetry for secondary teachers of modern poetry to use for independent study. Comments on a rhetorical approach to poetry, backgrounds to modern poetry, and four modern poets. Describes the benefits of these resources to a poetry teacher. (PRA)

Proposes that Flannery O'Connor's work should be judged apart from the author's comments about it. Suggests her work should be evaluated on its own merits, read as fiction that represents and reflects the real world. Concludes that O'Connor was a "religious propagandist of minor importance who wrote didactic fiction." (PM)

Presents several teachers' recommendations for short-story anthologies to use in junior-high or high-school English classes. (MM)

Examines Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple." Describes secondary school students' reactions to and explorations of the novel. (MM)

Examines the work of West Indian poet Derek Walcott. Notes that although his poetry is intellectually and emotionally challenging (and therefore difficult to teach), he demands recognition as a significant contemporary poet. (MM)

Describes a teacher's modern literature class, where she encourages her students to write freely and to create cubist or abstract works of art. Describes the students' progress and asserts that their attempts to search for insight without having definite, preset answers is enough to help them appreciate modern literature. (PRA)

Reviews two books by Ivan Doig: "This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind" and "English Creek." Notes that both books provide a picture of life in the American West that is not pervaded by Western stereotypes of cowboys and Indians. (MM)

THE TWO PURPOSES OF THIS INVESTIGATION WERE TO TEST THE IMPLICATION THAT POEMS USED IN ANTHOLOGIES ARE SELECTED LARGELY BY CHANCE, AND TO COMPARE THE POETRY SELECTIONS IN SIX WELL-KNOWN SECONDARY SCHOOL LITERATURE ANTHOLOGIES TO DETERMINE THEIR EXTENT OF AGREEMENT ABOUT WHICH POEMS SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE CURRICULUM. THE SIX ANTHOLOGIES…

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.…

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)

Discusses reasons for studying Irish literature and describes an illustrative 4-week unit. (SW)

Explains that J. D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" contains an underlying moral code which predominates the controversial elements of the novel. States that a close textual analysis and candid discussion are necessary to appreciate the novel's literary merits and to understand its controversial elements. (MM)

Gives responses of eight practicing teachers to the question, "What work of twentieth-century prose (nonfiction) do you recommend to your students?" Provides citations, summaries, and overviews of the works. (HB)

Describes how a teacher integrates art and literature in teaching English and world literature, by using slide presentations of modern art to graphically demonstrate the characteristics of modernism--fragmentation, alienation, heightened subjectivity, narrative distancing, and discontinuity in time. Describes and relates specific works of Dali,…