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“The Allegorical Metaphor: Marvell’s ‘The Definition of Love’.” Review of English Studies 17.65 (1966): 16–29.

Berthoff argues that Marvell’s “ ‘extended Soul’ ” is a “metaphoric definition, not a simple euphemism” because his poetry’s abstractness.

“Bottom’s Semiology: The Duck-Rabbit and Magritte’s Pipe.” Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory 14(1993): 15–25. Originally published in her book Mysterious Barricades.

““A Comment on ‘Composing, Uniting, Transacting: Whys and Ways of Connections Reading and Writing’.” College English 52.3 (1990): 343.

Berthoff briefly points out Nancy R. Comley’s misreading of Berthoff’s earlier essay.

““A Comment on David Dobrin’s ‘Is Technical Writing Particularly Objective?” College English 48.6 (1986): 619–621.

Berthoff urges that rhetoricians seek guidance in logical, not psychological, studies of the relationship of language and thought.

““A Comment on Inquiry and Composing.” College English 45.6 (1983): 605–606.

Berthoff critiques George Hillock’s article on theory and research of the relationship of inquiry and composing for its “problematic passages”, for one that inquiry has not been ignored by scholars in the field as he suggests.

““A Comment on ‘The Purification of Literature and Rhetoric’.” College English 50.1 (1988): 95–96.

Berthoff strongly defends her book Forming/Thinking/Writing as anything but an example of what Winterowd calls “vitalism.”

““A Comment on ‘When Paraphrase Fails’.” College English 40.4 (1982): 434–435.

Berthoff defends interpretive paraphrase and multiple definition as ways to understand poetry.

“Clark, William G. “Responses to ‘The Students’ Right to Their Own Language’.” College Composition and Communication 26.2 (1975): 216–217.

““Comment on Hugh Richmond.” College English 34.5 (1973): 731–732.

““Democratic Practice, Pragmatic Vistas.” Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 20 (1988): 40–47.

““Facets: The Most Important Development in the Last Five Years for High School Teachers of English Composition.” The English Journal 73.5 (1984): 20–23.

Berthoff defends her dialectical notebook as the tool that helps students return to thinking and thinking again throughout the writing process.

““The Falconer’s Dream of Trust: Wyatt’s ‘They Fle from Me’.” Sewanee Review 71(963): 477–494.

““From Mencius on the Mind to Coleridge on Imagination.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 18.2 (1978): 163–166.

““From Problem-solving to a Theory of Imagination.” College English 33.6 (1972): 636–649.

Berthoff again challenges the notion that problem solving in composition is as effective as some would have others believe. She argues that a linear approach to reform the teaching of English stifles true progression of ideas and meaning.

““How Philosophy Can Help Us.” Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory 9(1988): 61–90.

““I. A. Richards and the Audit of Meaning.” New Literary History 14.1 (1982): 63–79.

““I. A. Richards and the Philosophy of Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 10.4 (1980): 195–210.

““Interchanges: Spiritual Sites of Composing.” Introduction. College Composition and Communication 45.2 (1994): 237–263.

““Is Teaching Still Possible? Writing, Meaning, and Higher Order Reasoning.” College English 46.8 (1984): 743–755.

““Marvell’s Stars, Schubert’s Suns, Chekhov’s Pipe: Recognizing and Interpreting Metaphor.” Sewanee Review 89.1(1981): 57–82.

““Problem-Dissolving by Triadic Means.” College English 58.1 (1996): 9–21.

Berthoff criticizes the “gangster theories” of literary analysis that I. A. Richards also warned of for their dyadic definition of meaning as either fact or opinion, without a place for close interpretation by the reader.

““The Problem of Problem Solving.” College Composition and Communication 22.3 (1971): 237–242.

This is Berthoff’s response to Janice Lauer’s article about heuristics and composition. Berthoff argues that one problem with heuristics is that they can become victims of formulaic rules that limit students’ abilities to make meaning independently. Berthoff disagreed with Lauer’s recommendation that composition theorists use work in psychology to develop new understandings of invention. Furthermore, she did not support the introduction of material from another field into English studies, the humanities/science divide, the explicit theorizing of invention, drawing on interdisciplinary sources, nor the idea of invention as strategy or art.

““Recalling Another Freudian Model - A Consumer Caveat.” CEA Critc 35.4 (1973): 12–14.

““Reclaiming the Active Mind.” College English 61.6 (1999): 671–680.

““Reclaiming the Imagination.” Freshman English News 3.3 (1975): 13–14.

““Response to Richard Gebhardt, ‘Writing Processes, Revision, and Rhetorical Problems: A Note on Three Recent Articles’.” College Composition and Communication 35.1 (1984): 95.

““Response to Catherine Belsey.” New Literary History 14.1 (1982): 85–86.

““Response to David Holbrook.” College English 34.5 (1973): 736.

““Response to Janice Lauer, ‘Counterstatement’.” College Composition and Communication 23.5 (1972): 414–416.

““Rhetoric as Hermeneutic.” College Composition and Communication 42.3 (1991): 279–287.

““A Semiotic Journey across the Field of Geist.” Semiotica 119 (1998): 269–85.

““Staying Viable.” College Composition and Communication 31.1 (1980): 84–86.

““Susanne K. Langer and ‘the Odyssey of the Mind’.” Semiotica 128 (2000): 1–34.

““Symposium: English 1999-Reclaiming the Active Mind.” College English 61.6 (1999): 671–680.

““Tolstoy, Vygotsky, and Making of Meaning.” College Composition and Communication 29.3 (1978): 249–255.

““Two Comments on ‘Assigning Places: The Function of Introductory Composition as a Cultural Discourse’.” College English 56.7 (1994): 841–844.

““The Voice of Allegory: Marvell’s ‘The Unfortunate Lover’.” Modern Language Quarterly 27.1 (1966): 41–50.

““The World, the Text, and the Reader: I. A. Richards’s Hermeneutics.” Modern Philology 88.2 (1990): 166–173.

Book Reviews

“Rev. of Andrew Marvell: His Life and Writings. John Dixon Hunt. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1978. Modern Language Quarterly 40.1 (1979): 77–80.

“Rev. of Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy. Louise W. Knight. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Sewanee Review 115.3 (2007): lxix-lxxi.

“Rev. of The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days. Mark Edmundson. London: Bloomsbury, 2007. Sewanee Review 116.3 (2008): lxv-lxvii.

“Rev. of Decisive Writing: An Improvement Program. L. P. Driskill and Margaret Simpson. New York: Oxford UP, 1978. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 8.3 (1978): 122–125.

“Rev. of Freire for the Classroom: A Sourcebook for Liberatory Teaching. Ira Shor. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1987. College Composition and Communication 39.3 (1988) 359–360.

“Rev. of I. A. Richards: His Life and Work. John Paul Russo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, Cambridge Quarterly 19.3 (1990): 279–285.

“Rev. of Marvell’s Pastoral Art. Donald M. Friedman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. Modern Language Quarterly 32.2 (1971): 110–113.

“Rev. of Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice. Janet Malcolm. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007. Sewanee Review 116.2 (2008): xxxviii-xxxi.

“Rev. of William Empson, Volume II: Against the Christians. John Haffenden. New York: Oxford UP, 2006. Sewanee Review 115.2 (2007): 293–300.