... and othering gained traction in classrooms where English at once endorsed and condemned such usages. Chandran.english@aol.in Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 English in India displaced workers/“strangers” Walt Whitman's “To You,” James Baldwin's “Stranger in the Village,” Eavan...

... , and Price Kenneth M. , eds. n.d. The Walt Whitman Archive . whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/index.html (accessed October 2020 ). cummings e.e . 1935 . No Thanks . New York : Golden Eagle . Feinberg Leslie . 2014 . Stone Butch Blues . www.lesliefeinberg.net/ . Folsom...

... and Future Queen of Comedy.” Salon.com , 28 Sept. Accessed online at archive.salon.com/ent/col/srag/2000/09/28/ohara/print.html ,24 June 2003. Weinsheimer, Joel. 1985 . Gadamer's Hermeneutics: A Reading of Truth and Method . New Haven, Conn.:Yale University Press. Whitman. Walt. 1982 . Poetry...

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... in-­class sessions. I add these dates using our classroom computer and portray the time line on our projector so students can see the changes made. For example, we began one semester’s course by reading three poems for our first in-­class session: Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself ” (1855), Langston...

... Multitudes Empathy, Contradictions, and Opaque Ideologies Kristopher M. Lotier Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Hofstra University, where I work, and which hosted the first 2016 US presi- dential debate, offers...

... from Harry Potter and Stephen King to a defense of Walt Whitman, anger that the major Romantic poets have been displaced by Felicia Hemans and a few other women, and the terrified claim that Aphra Behn has replaced Shakespeare in the curriculum. His concern about Shakespeare...

... for Digital Research in the Humanities, the Nebraska Historical Society, the Willa Cather Foundation, a large community of schol- ars and students, and an ever-­growing number of collectors, readers, history buffs, and archival entities across the world. The Walt Whitman Archive offers another example...

... to the nineteenth century, of students negative encounters with poetry. Farber notes that, while we can sometimes captivate students with a particular poem (the way many viewers have been captivated by Walt Whitman s O Captain! My Captain! after watching Dead Poets Society), we do not seem to be able to generate...

... and homogeneity suggested by the Oxford English Dictionary’s gloss of pure as “free from contamination.” This is 78  Pedagogy because almost everything about the texts that compose the literary tradi- tion I teach foreground the political power — indeed, necessity — of mixing: from Walt Whitman’s idea...

... revealing how course readings are woven into my life, such as the difficulty I had in reading Edward Taylor’s “Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children” after a season of loss in my family, or the dramatic conviction I bring to classroom performances of Walt Whitman’s “The Wound-Dresser.” Holding...

... in Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target (1997: 160), and as the reception histories of William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Louise Bennett, and others bear witness, nationalizing pres- sures can transform regional languages into ones that bear the burden of rep- resenting a nation: what begins...

... is to integrate transnational approaches into the undergraduate curriculum, which remains largely national. In the context of American literature, this carries a specific challenge: many writers, including Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Sherwood Anderson, were deliberately setting out to create...

... Quayson, Tobin Siebers, and Sharon L. Snyder (plus a few others). 3. The literary selections featured works by canonical figures from the nineteenth century (such as Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, and Oscar Wilde) and from the twentieth...

... Time Periods, No Subscriptions or Academic Affiliations Required Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Walt Whitman Archive, edited by Ed Folson and Kenneth M. Price, www.whitmanarchive .org Library of Congress, American Memory...

...” — songs that figure importantly in Joyce’s stories. We listen to recorded tellings of Native American Coyote tales and to poets reading — from ancient, scratchy recordings of Walt Whitman and Dylan Thomas to online digital versions by the poets of our own time. I’ve always read aloud...

... and to poets reading — from ancient, scratchy recordings of Walt Whitman and Dylan Thomas to online digital versions by the poets of our own time. I’ve always read aloud in poetry classes but now I do so in all my courses. Students miss things, sometimes the very things that make a work...

...” — songs that figure importantly in Joyce’s stories. We listen to recorded tellings of Native American Coyote tales and to poets reading — from ancient, scratchy recordings of Walt Whitman and Dylan Thomas to online digital versions by the poets of our own time. I’ve always read aloud...

... to teach Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, or Jorie Graham. We do not eschew difficult poems (Donne s Air and Angels but we avoid the obscure or rhetorical in favor of dense, highly structured poems in which the form is easily seen as a constituent of the meaning. We want the students to see how...

..., different genres, different relationships to audience. As Thomas and Turner (1994: 49) point out, it is futile to study the works of famous writers in order to learn to write like them: Imagine someone sitting down to study the works of Marcel Proust, or Ezra Pound, or Walt Whitman with a view...