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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784381703321

Titolo

Margins in the classroom [[electronic resource] ] : teaching literature / / Kostas Myrsiades and Linda S. Myrsiades, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994

ISBN

0-8166-8538-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Pedagogy and cultural practice ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

MyrsiadesKostas

MyrsiadesLinda S

Disciplina

807/.1/173

Soggetti

Literature - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Literature - Philosophy

Criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Earlier versions of these chapters appeared in College literature 17.2/3 (June-October 1990) and 18.2 June 1991)"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Rethinking the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism; 2 Chances of Being Kind: Rorty, Irony, and Teaching Modern Literature; 3 The Political Responsibility of the Teaching of Literatures; 4 Literacy and Literature: Making or Consuming Culture?; 5 (Post)modern Critical Theory and the Articulations of Critical Pedagogies; 6 The Politics of Teaching Literature: The ""Paedagogical Effect""; 7 Discipline and Resistance: The Subjects of Writing and the Discourses of Instruction; 8 Subversion and Oppositionality in the Academy

9 Entitlement and Empowerment: Claims on Canonicity10 Canon: New Testament to Derrida; 11 Freud, Lacan, and the Subject of Cultural Studies; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Brings together established scholars and emerging voices from diverse backgrounds to show how politics and theory can and do affect the most pressing problems confronting the contemporary teacher of literature. The essays in this volume go beyond questioning and examining existing practices to suggest fresh approaches to teaching the expanding literary canon within the context of the politics of the educational institution.