Marianne Carus

Arther S. Trace

Open Court Basic Readers

Comparisons are made between the Soviet and American elementary and high school education in the areas of reading, literature, foreign languages, history and geograpy.

What Ivan Knows that Johnny Doesn't

Literature examines the declining influence of the literary arts in America particularly during the last half century and attempts to analyze the problem by calling attention to four particular threats which appear to be besieging them. They are: (1) the replacing of the authority of the imagination by the authority of the sciences; (2) the rise of certain literary and critical theories in recent decades which have seriously weakened the study of literature in both the schools and the colleges; (3) problems in producing fully literate high school graduates, largely as a result of faulty methods of teaching reading and doubtful philosophical principles which have seriously weakened the study of literature in the schools; and (4) the threat of the electronic age to the preservation of the printed page upon which literature depends for its very survival. All of these forces have served to trivialize literature and are on their way to destroying it as a major cultural force in modern America. This book also attempts to redeem literature, and to help restore literature as a major discipline, superior in importance to other disciplines, by offering a theory of literature which will demonstrate that literature is in fact, as Sir Philip Sidney insisted, "the highest form of earthly learning."

Its Opponents and Its Power

Literature

It includes an account of the revolt of Satan, the War in Heaven, Satan and his angels being cast into Hell, the Council in Pandemonium, the Creation, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Temptation and the Fall, the archangel Michael's description to Adam and Eve of future events, Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden, and the famous Gustave Dore illustrations.

The Story of Adam and Eve

Paradise Lost for Children

Since the 1960s, a number of artists have challenged the image of the lonely artist by embarking on long term collaborations that dramatically altered the terms of artistic identity. In this book, Green offers a sustained critical examination of collaboration in international contemporary art.

Arther S. Trace

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