Drawn from talks given at a conference held at the University of New Hampshire in October 1984, the papers in this collection explore the relationship of composition to reading and literature studies. Following an introductory chapter written by Thomas Newkirk, which contains background information about that relationship as well as an overview of the contents of the book, the papers are arranged in three sections: Perspectives; Reading, Writing, Interpreting; and Fictions. The titles of the articles and their authors are as follows: (1) "Reading and Writing, Work and Leisure" (R. Ohmann); (2) "The Rhetoric of Mechanical Correctness" (R. J. Connors); (3) "Old Wine and New Bottles: A Dialectical Encounter between the Old Rhetoric and the New" (B. Hatlen); (4) "Wanderings: Misreadings, Miswritings, Misunderstandings" (D. Bartholomae); (5) "'Reading the world...reading the word': Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Knowing" (A. E. Berthoff); (6) "The Dialogic Imagination: Something More Than We've Been Taught" (J. Goleman); (7) "Coming to Words: Writing as Process and the Reading of Literature" (G. Lindberg); (8) "Enigma Variations: Reading and Writing through Metaphor" (L. Z. Smith); (9) "An Interplay of Powers: Writing about Literature" (R. Deen); (10) "Closeness to Text: A Delineation of Reading Processes as They Affect Composing" (L. Quitman Troyka); (11) "The Reader in the Writing Class" (C. Batker and C. Moran); (12) "Inventing an Elephant: History as Composition" (S. W. Sherman); (13) "Framing Narratives" (J. Fishman Summerfield); (14) "Reading while Writing" (D. W. Murray); and (15) "Lowell's Turtles: Visions and Self-Revisions" (P. Mariani). (NKA)