Practicing theory in introductory college literature courses / edited by James M. Cahalan and David B. Downing.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Downing, David B., 1947-
Language:English
Published: Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, [1991], ©1991.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American literature > Study and teaching (Higher)
English literature > Study and teaching (Higher)
Literature > Study and teaching > Theory, etc.
Literature > Study and teaching (Higher)
Physical Description:xi, 385 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Reading from inside and outside of one's community
  • Combining personal and textual experience : a reader-response approach to teaching American literature
  • From clinic to classroom while uncovering the evil dead in Dracula : a psychoanalytic pedagogy
  • "Text," "Reader," "Author," and "History" in the introduction to literature course
  • In search of our sisters' rhetoric : teaching through reception theory
  • Historical necessity for-and difficulties with-new historical analysis in introductory literature courses
  • Reader and the text : ideologies in dialogue
  • Confrontational pedagogy and the introductory literature course
  • Walls we don't see : toward collectivist pedagogies as political struggle.