May be used as a supplementary handbook, as a collection of materials for a long research paper or a series of a shorter critical essays, or as a primary textbook in courses in criticism or the techniques study. In addition, it should prove useful as a unit of study in an introduction-to-literature course or as a bridge between composition and literature in those full-year courses in which a semester is devoted to the reading of literature accompanied by the writing of papers dealing with literature.

(Key Words: Literature, Maurice Beebe, Literary Symbolism, Meanings, Fallacy, Definitions, Interpretation).