Cultivating vocation in literary studies / edited by Stephanie L. Johnson and Erin VanLaningham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Stephanie L., editor.

VanLaningham, Erin, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Study and teaching.

Literature.

Vocation in literature.

Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.

Vocational education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

An important resource for educators who desire to use literary texts in cultivating vocational exploration among students or in scholarship on vocation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributor Biographies

Introduction

Part I: Forms

1. Disciplinary Form: Introduction to Literary Studies

2. Novels, Vocation and the Call of the Unfinished Story

3. Poetry’s Lyric Call

4. The Drama of Vocation

Part II: Voices

5. Queer Callings: LGBTQ Literature and Vocation

6. Seeing Gender: A Vocation of One’s Own

7. Anti-Racism as Vocational Practice: Reading with Alice Walker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Edwidge Danticat

8. The Possibility of Intervention: Vocational Exploration in Non-Fiction Immigrant Narratives

9. Translating Vocation

Part III: Praxis

10. Encountering the Archive

11. Narrating Our Wounds: Trauma, Literature and Vocation

12. Creative Criticism and the Vital Friction of Otherness

13. Community-Engaged Pedagogy, Literary Studies and Vocation

Epilogue: The Professoriate as Vocation

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 17, 2022).

ISBN:

1-3995-1344-3

1-4744-9002-6

1-4744-9003-4

OCLC:

1298393905