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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED343118 AUTHOR: Cahalan, James M., Ed.; Downing, David B., Ed.


TITLE: Practicing Theory in Introductory College Literature
Courses.

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 387 p.
AVAILABILITY: $24.95 nonmember).

ABSTRACT: Connecting the separate worlds of literary
theorists and literature teachers in higher education, this
collection of essays by 20 college teachers shares their
ideas about using theorists' concepts to turn
undergraduates from passive receivers of information into
active thinkers about meaning in literature. Following an
introduction by James M. Cahalan and David B. Downing,
essays in the collection are: "Reading from Inside and
Outside of One's Community" (David Bleich); "Combining
Personal and Textual Experience: A Reader-Response Approach
to Teaching American Literature" (Patricia Prandini
Buckler); "From Clinic to Classroom while Uncovering the
Evil Dead in 'Dracula': A Psychoanalytic Pedagogy" (Mark S.
Paris); "'Text,' 'Reader,' 'Author,' and 'History' in the
Introduction to Literature Course" (John Schilb); "In
Search of Our Sisters' Rhetoric: Teaching through Reception
Theory" (Louise Z. Smith); "The Historical Necessity
for--and Difficulties with--New Historical Analysis in
Introductory Literature Courses" (Brook Thomas); "The
Reader and the Text: Ideologies in Dialogue" (John
Clifford); "Confrontational Pedagogy and the Introductory
Literature Course" (Ronald Strickland); "The Walls We Don't
See: Toward Collectivist Pedagogies as Political Struggle"
(C. Mark Hurlbert); "Feminist Theory, Literary Canons, and
the Construction of Textual Meanings" (Barbara Frey
Waxman); "Coyote Midwife in the Classroom: Introducing
Literature with Feminist Dialogics" (Patrick D. Murphy); "A
Multicultural Introduction to Literature" (Phillipa Kafka);
"'Who Was That Masked Man?': Literary Criticism and the
Teaching of African American Literature in Introductory
Courses" (Pancho Savery); "Less Is More: Coverage, Critical
Diversity, and the Limits of Pluralism" (Douglas Lanier);
"From Discourse in Life to Discourse in Poetry: Teaching
Poems as Bakhtinian Speech Genres" (Don Bialostosky);
"Teaching Deconstruction: Theory and Practice
in the Undergraduate Literature Classroom" (Lois Tyson);
"Reading Deconstructively in the Two-Year College
Introductory Literature Classroom" (Thomas Fink);
"Practicing Textual Theory and Teaching Formula Fiction"
(M. H. Dunlop); "Theory as Equipment for (Postmodern)
Living" (Thomas McLaughlin); "Students as Theorists:
Collaborative Hypertextbooks" (James J. Sosnoski); and
"Selected Further Resources for Theory and Pedagogy: A
Bibliographic Essay" (James M. Cahalan and David B.
Downing). A 31-page comprehensive listing of references is
attached. (RS)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: Critical-Reading; Feminism-; Higher
Education; Teaching-Methods; Undergraduate-Students
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Introductory-Courses; *Literature
Appreciation; *Theory-Practice-Relationship

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