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Teaching contemporary theory to undergraduates

Title
Teaching contemporary theory to undergraduates / edited by Dianne F. Sadoff and William E. Cain.
Publication
New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Sadoff, Dianne F.
  • Cain, William E., 1952-
Description
vi, 271 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Options for teaching ; 12
Uniform Title
Options for teaching ; 12.
Subject
  • Criticism > Study and teaching (Higher)
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Literaturtheorie
  • Literaturunterricht
  • Literatuurtheorie
  • Hoger onderwijs
  • critique littéraire > enseignement > littérature d'expression anglaise
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • pt. 1. Introducing theory -- Contemporary theory, the academy, and pedagogy / William E. Cain -- Frameworks, materials, and the teaching of theory / Dianne F. Sadoff -- pt. 2. Surveying theory -- Ancients and moderns : literary theory and the history of criticism / David B. Downing -- Confessions of a convert : strategies for teaching theory / John Kucich -- The T word : theory as trial and transformation of the undergraduate classroom / Susan S. Lanser -- Everything you always wanted to know about English : critical theory in the multipurpose course / Lynette Felber -- Doxography versus inquiry : two ways of teaching theory / Donald G. Marshall -- Polylogue : some (mainly pleasurable) observations on the Carnegie Mellon literary and cultural studies curriculum, 1983-89 / Gary Waller -- pt. 3. Accounting for theory in the undergraduate classroom / Diana Fuss -- Teaching realism as theory / Sandra A. Grayson -- Giving voice to feminist criticism : a conversation / Beverly Lyon Clark, Heather I. Braun, Susan Dearing, Kerry-Beth Garvey, Karen M. Gennair, Becky Hemperly, and Michelle Henneberry -- Practicing theory, theorizing practice : critical transformations of The marble faun / Evan Carton -- The pedagogy of the depressed : feminism, poststructuralism, and pedagogical practice / Laurie A. Finke -- An introductory texts and theory course / Jonathan Arac -- A theorized poetry course / Cary Nelson.
  • pt. 4. Theory and culture -- Living history : the new historicism in the classroom / Huston Diehl -- Teaching the social text : England, 1859 -- brushing history against the grain / Cannon Schmitt and Donald Ulin -- Institutions, classrooms, failures : African American literature and critical theory in the same small spaces / Lindon Barrett -- Theory as translation : teaching "foreign" concepts / Simon Gikandi -- Gray is theory (except in black and white or color) : or, the paradoxes and pleasures of film theory / D.N. Rodowick -- Teaching cultural criticism in Denver, Colorado / Jan Gorak -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0873523695
  • 9780873523691
  • 0873523687
  • 9780873523684
LCCN
94020566
OCLC
  • ocm30624190
  • 30624190
  • SCSB-2075486
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library