Challenges of Reading the New and the Old
Publisher: MACLALS & Dept of English, University of Malaya
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 245
Description: The book is a result of an international seminar organised in February 1994 by the Malaysian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (MACLALS) in association with the Department of English, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur). Professor Edwin Thumboo delivered the keynote address (the first essay of the book) and Dr Satendra Nandan, a plenary session on developing children's imagination through literature (the second essay). The remaining ten chapters comprise seminar papers and workshop reports.
Table of contents: label: Challenges of Reading the New and the Old: Whose canon? What texts? Which methods?
pagenum: 1
title: Edwin Thumboo; label: Creating and Teaching Children's Literature: A Fiji Perspective
pagenum: 26
title: Satendra Nandan; label: Portraits of an Age: Anita Desai's :"In Custody" and Attia Hosain's "Sunlight on a Broken Column"
pagenum: 44
title: S. N. R. Kazmi; label: Writing and the Construction of Educational Knowledge
pagenum: 63
title: Joseph Foley; label: Journeying into K.S. Maniam's " In a far country"
pagenum: 93
title: Wong Soak Koon; label: Teaching English Romanticism: The relevance of history
pagenum: 109
title: Robbie Goh; label: Our Side of the Story: A native re-reading of colonialist fiction
pagenum: 131
title: Zawiah Yahya; label: Classic Problems: Classic Solutions
pagenum: 148
title: Otto Steinmayer; label: Literature in the Language Classroom and the CLA Approach
pagenum: 167
title: Sunita Anne Abraham; label: 'Differences that make a Difference": Cross-cultural readings in the classroom
pagenum: 189
title: Tang Soo Ping; label: Reading and Writing Hemingway: A workshop ofn Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain"
pagenum: 209
title: Margaret Yong; label: Cultivating Awareness in the Reading of Poetry
pagenum: 216
title: Lim Chee Seng; title: 236
label: List of Participants