Teaching theory
By: edited by Richard Bradford
Series: Teaching the new English; Teaching the new English
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780230520738; 9780230520745
Subjects: Study and teaching; Language arts; English language
Description: "This new volume in the 'Teaching the New English' series aims to provide a historical view of the teaching of literary theory in universities, a current survey and aims for the teaching of theory in the future"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The history and the present condition of theory - a brief account / Richard Bradford; title: Teaching theory / Vincent B. Leitch; title: The resistance to history: teaching in the present / Andrew Hadfield; title: The attractions of theory / Jill Le Bihan; title: Syntactics - semantics - pragmatic (still having one's cake?) / Leona Toker; title: The motivation of literacy theory: from national culture to world literature / Stephen Shapiro; title: Marketing theory: an overview of theory guides / Andrew James; title: From theory to practice: literacy studies in the classroom / Katherine Byrne; title: At home in theory? Teaching one's way through the theory at home / Madelena Gonzalez; title: Reading by recipe: postcolonial theory and the practice of reading / Neil Murphy; title: Do I hate theory? / Richard Bradford.