This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: human sexual information, behaviors, and attitudes in fiction for young people; affective responses of adolescents to a poem; objectives for the junior high literature curriculum; implementation of a Kohlbergian value development curriculum; the relationship between oral readings in sex-role oriented children's literature and the personal and social adjustment of the self-concept of children; responses to literature in translation; the relationship between conscious and unconscious response in reading; the effects of teaching literary devices on improving comprehension and vocabulary; perceptions of literary characters; responses to short stories by black and white authors; interpretations of metaphor; speculative fiction; Kohlberg level of moral reasoning in Newberry Award winning fiction; tradition and creativity in the storytelling of preadolescent girls; and narrative factors in the reading interests of male and female adolescents. (TJ)