This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 32 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: literary criticism in nineteenth century United States; effects of sexist and nonsexist literature on children's attitudes; effects of silent reading and video presentation on story recall; rhetoric of retarded children in Newbery Award-winning fiction; poetry reading and writing; literature and moral education; favorite illustrations of Caldecott Award-winning books; the responses of students to realistic and fantasy short stories; political socialization in picture books; values clarification through literature; black poets and the theme of isolation in black adolescent literature; blind and deaf images in contemporary literature; realistic fiction's effects on attitudes toward the aged; relationship of literature's cognitive dimension to aesthetic values; story criticism; world-future and native-American imagery in children's literature; the impact of the Henkel press on children's literature; and the effects of the oral ensemble approach on the teaching of literature. (AEA)