This book discusses new developments in the discipline of English. It contains six essays. In "The Ghetto of the Negro Novel: A Theme with Variations," Blyden Jackson explores why the setting of the Negro novel is in the city ghetto rather than in the rural Southland. Albert Marckwardt investigates the concept of "standard English" in both its linguistic and its sociological dimensions. In "Rhetoric: How Do You Carve an Elephant?" Robert Gorrell reveals a positive approach to instruction in composition that replaces teaching negative rules and drilling on usage with teaching "Understanding," an understanding solidly based in the art of rhetoric. Arthur Eastman leads his audience to discover with him"more things" revealed through literature, in this case through Hamlet's discovery of his kinship with humanity. In "The Reunion of Historical and Literary Study," David Fowler urges the reader to look beyond a narrow interpretation and fragmented view of the discipline of English to "a new integrated vision and a new vitality" that reunite historical and literary study. William Iverson urges the reader to accept the challenge and privilege of guiding children in the process of defining themselves through language. (This document previously announced as ED 058 189.) (CK)