The author suggests that the creative artist is both inheritor of an historically determined consciousness and creator of a new consciousness. He then sketches out how social, political, economic, and psychological factors affected art and literary styles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (KC)

Describes the public lending right (PLR) situation in the United Kingdom, including the origin and evolution of the campaign for author remuneration for library lending, the current status of PLR, and a look to the future. Eighty-five references are provided. (CHC)

Lists and annotates new books for children, arranged according to the following categories: picture books; stories for younger, for intermediate, and for older readers; folklore and mythology; poetry and song; and nonfiction. A book about C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, of interest to adults, is also annotated. (GT)

Surveys the family background, education, interests, and literary production of 100 Franco-American authors. Two examples from the literature are discussed and indications on authors' political and social involvement are given to show that both preservation of the spiritual heritage and attention to populist causes were concerns of these writers.…

This article argues that the stagnation, pessimism, and self-pity evident in recent Black writing results in part from the alienation of Black writers from the mainstream of Black life, and in part from the illusions that they share with other Blacks who have embraced the American value system. (Author/EB)

Describes Internet reference resources in language and literature. Includes general literature sites; language dictionaries; language resources; electronic text collections; author information and criticism; poetry; folklore and mythology; and children's literature. (AEF)

Includes a variety of sources for quality information for Canadian school libraries. Highlights include professional associations; award-winning books; Canadian children's and young adult authors and illustrators; educational films; Web sites; Canadian information sources on the Web; Canadian poetry; and professional resources. (LRW)

Contains the author's reflections on having been, in effect, censored, that is, told that her talk at a middle school had been cancelled because of controversial struggles at the school about other books. (TB)

Discusses the classroom approaches and teaching techniques professional writers use when teaching literary journalism. Comments on discussions with John McPhee, Mark Kramer, Madeleine Blais, and Tracy Kidder. (MG)

Describes a class activity in which students research one work by Nancy Willard, a contemporary novelist, and then meet Willard to discuss the work. Notes that the students engaged in lively discussions with the novelist. (RS)

Examines how twentieth-century Asian women writers have been and continue to be marginalized by gender, by the choice of writing in English, and, when the writer is a member of a minority, by the prevailing majority power structure. The author's recollections of experiences in Malaysia form the basis for discussion. (39 references) (JL)

Describes the search strategies and resources used to compile an annotated bibliography on Canadian author Timothy Findley. Materials referenced in the bibliography include television and radio shows, manuscripts, personal journals and correspondence, newspaper clippings, foreign language editions of novels, photographs, drawings, and works that…

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series of novels tells the story of her life through narratives developed around housing; male traditions of buying and building; and female traditions of furnishing, housekeeping, and preservation of culture. Wilder made Great Plains houses a central metaphor of U.S. culture. (KS)

Based on her belief that all of our lives are stories that are pieces to a puzzle forming the truth behind the sacredness of life, Anne Dunn--Ojibwe storyteller and author--seeks to build bridges between cultures, between generations, and between oral and written storytelling. Includes a review of her book "When Beaver Was Very Great."…

Fenton Johnson, an award-winning writer living in San Francisco, reflects on growing up in a large Catholic family in Appalachian Kentucky and the stigma associated with being gay. His latest novel, "Scissors, Papers, Rock," relates the story of a young man leaving the gay urban culture of San Francisco to return to the straight rural…