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..., reevaluation. What literary historians can offer current debates over fiction’s pedagogical value is a sense of how our assumptions about fiction’s role in education have their own history. We can make explicit what have become tacit assumptions about fiction and thus consider them anew...

... in the Taiwanese context, with focus on the material value of an English degree and the potential expansion of the degree beyond the isolated major. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Taiwan college English American New Criticism pedagogical value humanities crisis An often-noted...

... notions of authorship, moral authority, and literary value in the second half of the nineteenth century. Noting that a significant strain of commentary on the scandal sought to separate Byron's literary genius from the matter of his personal behavior, Ryan argues that this case study allows us to situate...

... on the social blogging platform Tumblr.com and other informal social networks constitutes a new and important form of versioning that reaches different audiences and opens up new pedagogical opportunities. Though separated by decades, Tumblr and This Bridge both represent vernacular pedagogy networks that value...

... to accommodate differences of interest and interpretation.” Stewart’s analysis of the circulation of New Criticism in a Taiwanese context to value the material pedagogical impact of close reading and interpretive writing shows how the “survival of formalist interpretation stemmed from the role it played...

...Tina Chen Abstract This article proposes ethical alienation as a critical pedagogical practice by analyzing the neoteric critical consolidation of Asian American literary and cultural studies, a consolidation marked by the recent (and near simultaneous) publication of four major compendiums...

... in the wake of harm and helps us respond collectively to the precarity that constitutes our (experience of the) world. Ultimately, I argue that in a moment when the changing climate of higher education inspires (and perhaps even requires) paranoia, such a pedagogical practice constitutes a significant...

... as practices, learning to read not as a gift but as theft, and education not inculcating social values but orienting students to resist social structures that would oppress them. Alice Walker ( 1983 , 73), in her 1967 essay on Jackson in In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens , does nothing with the talking book...

... Lecturer , captured the spirit of pedagogical transformation that Rich and her coconspirators embodied. Rich recognized the silent, passive students imagined and produced by the banking model of education, and drawing on the enforced silence she experienced as a woman, she knew that these silences were...

... a pedagogical method he named dovetailing . The dovetailing method sought to correlate acts of reading and writing with industrial and agricultural training, instantiating an instrumental relation to literary expression that this essay terms vocational realism . Examining vocational realism as an important...

... practices and how our pedagogical practices raise new questions about the relevance and role of American literature. How has US participa- tion in a transnational field reanimated and recalibrated our understanding of pedagogies of domination and oppression? What kinds of counterhegemo- nies...

... invest our time heavily in lower-level courses. In the hopes of recruiting students, we seek to make our courses as user-friendly as we can in terms of content and pedagogical approach, and we work hard to communicate the value of these classes in terms of the skills that will translate and transfer...

... rule’ to maintain distinctions and separations among groups of people place a high value on white skin—white blood—because those who can have it are strictly limited and monitored. . . . To say that Johnson could be a mother to baby Christopher would be to indicate a willing...

... values. Warren uses the growing conservative image of the circus as Brief Mention 441 a metaphor for the American South. The influence of this metaphor on the works of other authors such as Faulkner, Ellison, Wolfe, and Morrison is also discussed...

... not just as a repository of culture, but also as a pedagogical resource in the 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 204 of 246 work of transforming culture’’ (25). That political autobiographies engage cul- ture by transforming it is not necessarily a new idea...

... on a specifically maternal pedagogic praxis. Her imaginative and associative approach to this novel, so often seen even by its admirers largely as a tran- Book Reviews 405 scription of certain pedagogical values, is particularly good on the way the book...

... largely as a tran- Book Reviews 405 scription of certain pedagogical values, is particularly good on the way the book captures or inscribes the bodily postures of literacy, what Crain calls the imprint of the mother. In a highly suggestive...

... largely as a tran- Book Reviews 405 scription of certain pedagogical values, is particularly good on the way the book captures or inscribes the bodily postures of literacy, what Crain calls the imprint of the mother. In a highly suggestive...

...- Book Reviews 405 scription of certain pedagogical values, is particularly good on the way the book captures or inscribes the bodily postures of literacy, what Crain calls the imprint of the mother. In a highly suggestive response to one of the more tan- talizing aspects of the novel, Crain...

.... Her imaginative and associative approach to this novel, so often seen even by its admirers largely as a tran- Book Reviews 405 scription of certain pedagogical values, is particularly good on the way the book captures or inscribes the bodily...