James Joyce's teaching life and methods
Subtitle: language and pedagogy in A portrait of the artist as a young man, Ulysses, and Finnegans wake
By: Elizabeth Switaj
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781137559890
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; Knowledge; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Criticism and interpretation; English language; Literary style; Study and teaching; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Language and languages
Description: "James Joyce didn't just play with language in his writing: he also, while teaching English to later-language learners, infused his pedagogy with a serious unseriousness that has caused his teaching to be underrated. In fact, he was a skilled, if unconventional, educator, and his teaching transformed his literary work"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction 1. "With No Delays for Elegance": Joyce's Teaching Life and Methods 2. Language Learning and Pedagogy in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3. Native Speakers as Language Learners: The Pedagogical Ulysses Chapter 4: "Night Lessons" in Wakese: The Furthest Extreme of Joyce's Anarchic PedagogyConclusion.