The creating word : papers from an international conference on the learning and teaching of english in the 1980s / edited with an introduction by Patricia Demers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Demers, Patricia, 1946-

University of Alberta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English philology--Study and teaching--Congresses.

English philology.

Philology--Study and teaching--Congresses.

Philology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These papers from "The Creating Word" conference at the University of Alberta look directly at the challenges facing English teachers in the 1980s. Eleven notable educators address topics of rhetoric, deconstructionism, transactional analysis, creative writing, reader-response theories, language arts methodology, and computer technology.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on the Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Rhetoric and Rightness: Some Fallacies in a Science of Language""; ""2 Construing and Deconstructing""; ""3 The Literary Transaction""; ""4 The Teaching of Poetry""; ""5 Seizing the Shining Reality: the Novel in the Classroom""; ""6 Teaching the Novel: the Creative Word in Great Expectations""; ""7 Creative Writing: Can It Be Taught?""; ""8 Writing: Self-Consciousness and a Change in Reality?""; ""9 What Is Language for?: a Functional View of the Language Arts""

""10 Language, Literature and the Computer""""11 Canadian Literature in the Secondary Curriculum""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Notes:

"Conference held October 1983 at the University of Alberta"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

1-4593-0397-0

1-4175-9158-7