Teaching literature : a companion / edited by Tanya Agathocleous and Ann C. Dean.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agathocleous, Tanya, 1970-

Dean, Ann C., 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

English literature.

American literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

American literature.

Literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

Literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 197 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

Literature departments enter the twenty-first century with a deepening sense of crisis and growing need to defend the value of their work in the face of understaffing and poor job prospects for graduate students. Teaching Literature offers a practical guide to teaching literature, with accounts of how daily experiences in the classroom grow out of engagement with dynamic fields of study. By uniting the theoretical and the practical consideration of what it means to teach literature, this book widens the current conversation about pedagogy just beginning to take place in the field. Until recently, teaching has played second fiddle to literary research as a mode of knowledge and a sign of academic prestige. Now, literature departments are beginning to realize the importance of articulating what it is we do in the classroom.

Contents:

Part I Fields of Study in the Twenty-First Century Classroom

1 Teaching Autobiography / Carolyn Williams 11

2 Queer Chaucer in the Classroom / Glenn Burger, Steven F. Kruger 31

3 Grub Street: the Literary and the Literatory in Eighteenth-Century Britain / John O'Brien 41

4 Teaching the Victorians Today / Nancy Henry 49

5 Towards Desegregating Syllabuses: Teaching American Literary Realism and Racial Uplift Fiction / Michele Birnbaum 58

6 Teaching Literature and Ethics: the Particular and the General / Suzy Anger 71

7 Taking Lyrics Literally: Teaching Poetry in a Prose Culture / Charles Altieri 80

Part II Classroom Rituals, Old and New

8 Re-writing Texts, Re-constructing the Subject: Work as Play on the Critical-Creative Interface / Rob Pope 105

9 Schooling Misery: the Ominous Threat and the Eminent Promise of the Popular Reader / Richard E. Miller 125

10 The River and the Chestnut Tree: When Students Already Know the Answers / Ann Dean 139

11 The Place of the Implicit in Literary Discovery: Creating New Courses / Philip Davis 149

12 From Teaching in Class to Teaching Online: Preserving Community and Communication / Susan Jaye Dauer 163

13 'Subject: RE: I absolutely *HATED* Achebe's Things Fall Apart': Teaching World Literature on the World Wide Web / Tanya Agathocleous, Jillana Enteen 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-192) and index.

ISBN:

0333987926

0333987934

OCLC:

50630630