Bridging the Gap
Subtitle: Literary Theory in the Classroom (Locust Hill Literary Studies, No 17)
Publisher: Locust Hill Press
Published: June 1994
Place of publication: West Cornwall, CT, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780933951600
Subjects: Study and teaching; Criticism
Table of contents: title: On the teaching of literary theory / D.G. Myers -- Other voices, other rooms: organizing and teaching the humanities conflict / Gerald Graff -- Teaching post-colonial literary theory / Helen Tiffin -- Teaching literature and theology: a lesson in two parts / David Jasper -- Shouldn't these theories be tested? / Colin Martindale -- Threshold texts and essayistic voices / Charles I. Schuster -- 'Who on earth is George W.M. Reynolds?' Literature, teaching, politics / Robert Mackie and Marea Mitchell -- Narratology: what we read when we read Raymond Carver's 'So much water so close to home' / R. Rawdon Wilson -- 'By any other name': theoretical issues in the teaching of nineteenth-century Black women's autobiography / Joycelyn Moody -- Travel writing, women of color, and the undergraduate romantics course / Jeanne Moskal -- Deconstruction in the classroom: Jane Austen's Persuasion / Imre Salusinszky -- The Beggar's opera and literary historiography: critical pluralism as strategy for teaching a canonical text / Robert J. Merrett -- Paradise lost and the theory survey / J.M.Q. Davies -- 'But you must learn to know such slanders of the age': literary theory in the study of Shakespeare / Simon Barker -- Problems in search of solutions: teaching theory in the classroom / Alan R. Roughley -- 'Yung and easily freudened': psychoanalytic theory in the literary classroom / M.E. Roughley -- On site: If on a winter's night a traveler and creative pedagogy / Darren J. Tofts -- Rhetoric, reader-response theory, and teaching literature / Larry Anderson -- Malory and Machery, ballads and Belsey: teaching theory and the medieval text / Stephen Knight -- Humanism and the teaching of theory / Richard Freadman.