There have been no critical studies of Cable's fiction treated for its own sake; and, without such studies, readers may not become aware of these stories or of their possible value. The absence of a critical position on Cable is due to the decline in his reputation as an artist when he became a writer of popular literature. Before 1925 Cable and…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Dorothy Van Ghent, Marvin Mudrick, Mark Schorer, Harry T. Moore, Julian Moynahan, Monroe Engel, Graham Hough, Mark Spilka, W. D. Snodgrass, V. de S. Pinto, Arthur E. Waterman, Richard Foster, and Raymond Williams--all…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Arthur Mizener, Lionel Trilling, William Troy, Wright Morris, John Aldridge, Edwin Fussell, Andrews Wanning, Malcolm Cowley, Leslie Fiedler, Charles E. Shain, Edmund Wilson, James E. Miller, Jr., Donald Ogden Stewart,…

A critical symposium on science fiction, this book features essays (by Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, George Zebrowski, Frank Herbert, Theodore Sturgeon, Alan E. Nourse, Thomas N. Scortia, Reginald Bretnor, James Gunn, Alexei and Cory Panshin, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, Anne McCaffrey, Gordon R. Dickson, and Jack Williamson) dealing with such subjects…

This volume, eighth in the annual series, provides for scholars, students, and general readers a systematic, evaluative guide to current published studies on American literature. Half the chapters summarize the year's published work on individual authors, and half are devoted to genres and periods. The eighteen contributors, acknowledged scholars…

The literary works of four American women who lived before 1900 deserve to be introduced, if not reintroduced, to the study of literature in the United States, because of their literary merit, variety, and valuable contributions to American literary history. In a journal edited from a diary kept during a round-trip horseback journey from Boston to…

It is explained how schools may become involved in the Poets-in-Schools program.

City Lights Books of San Francisco has served as a literary meeting place, as a bookstore that concentrates on serious literature--especially poetry, as a publisher of significant voices such as those of Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski, and as an institution with a political conscience. (JMD)

Westview Press in Boulder, Colorado, is a small independent press with an interest in scholarly publishing, especially manuscripts concerned with international and public policy. High speed and low cost are the advantages of its no-frills production method. A description of its operation and guidelines for authors are presented. (JMD)

If you can guide your students to think while they read, they are well on their way to becoming critical readers. Specific methods of questioning in order to stimulate students to think critically were outlined. (Author/RK)

This second change sheet for its publication manual states the American Psychologist Association's policy on sexist language in its journals offers some general principles for journal authors to consider, and suggests some ways to avoid sexist language. (Author)

This article presents a prospectus and bibliography for a course on "German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century" given at Stanford University in English. Selections are limited to authors available in English translation. (Author/TL)

Considers the relationship between the three writers' fiction and their temperaments, the role they play as artists in the black freedom movement, and the qualities that established them as three of black fiction's most important writers. (Author/AM)

A model for reviewing both quality and quantity of professorial publications establishes a variety of criteria that ideal publications should meet, provides for the assignment of relative weight to each criterion, and establishes a rating system for computing a raw score for each set of faculty publications being reviewed. (LBH)