...Jesper Gulddal This article presents a three-stage critique of the “schools approach” to teaching literary theory at the undergraduate level. First, it demonstrates the continued dominance of this approach both in teaching programs and in the textbook literature. Second, it discusses the approach's...

...Andy Hines; Hannah Armstrong; Kassie Moore Abstract This essay argues for shifting the focus of a literary theory and criticism course to the institutional, social, and historical forces that shape English studies. Rather than promoting disciplinary introspection, the authors understand...

...Cassandra Falke Abstract This article identifies in contemporary literary theory a new optimism about the power of literary texts. The medium of this power is not language, ideology, or form but readers open to being changed. Drawing on phenomenology, the article discusses methods for making...

...Stephen Sutherland To build on the legacy of reader-response theory, English studies needs to destabilize the foundational binary separation of reading and writing by creating stronger intradisciplinary relations between composition and literary studies. English studies professors can do so...

...Patricia A. Matthew; Jonathan Greenberg This article argues that introducing undergraduates to literary criticism and theory can be most effectively accomplished through the teaching of children's literature, fantasy literature, and Disney films alongside traditional literary criticism. We discuss...

...Colin Irvine After establishing how and why managerialism has simplified and thus corrupted the concept of “best practices,” this essay draws on a literary critical theory to explore ways professors and administrators alike might engage in complex, scholarly discussions about the learning...

... Literary Studies Meets International Relations  45 Interdisciplinarity, Knowledge, and Teaching As Julie Thompson Klein demonstrates in her important work Interdiscipli- narity: History, Theory, and Practice (1990: 19), the concept of interdiscipli- narity enjoys a long if complicated history...

..., where he directs the Freshman Communications Program and teaches first-year composition, research writing, and literary nonfiction. His research interests include postmodern theory, writing across the curriculum, and the history of rhetoric and semiotics. C o n t r i b u t o r s 593 PED 1.3-09...

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... . Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents . New York: Teachers College Press. Booker, M. Keith. 2001 . Teaching with“The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism” . New York: Norton. Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2000 . Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought...

... . Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents . New York: Teachers College Press. Booker, M. Keith. 2001 . Teaching with“The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism” . New York: Norton. Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 2000 . Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought...

... Anthology of English Literature . New York: Norton. Appleman, Deborah. 2000 . Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents . New York: Teachers College Press. Booker, M. Keith. 2001 . Teaching with“The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism” . New York...

...: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics . London:Verso. ———. 1998 . The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies . New York: New York University Press. Bérubé, Michael, and Cary Nelson, eds. 1995 . Higher Education under Fire: Politics,Economics...

... . Scholes Robert . 1985a . The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Scholes Robert . 1985b . Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English. Hartford, CT : Yale University Press . Scholes Robert...

... , was published in 2015. Cassandra Falke is professor of English literature at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, where she teaches an introduction to literature, literary theory, romanticism, and contemporary fiction. She is the author of The Phenomenology of Love and Reading (2016) and Literature...

... three decades, he offers a wide variety of advanced courses in literary theory, critical thought and methods, Indian English, and Anglo-American and new literatures in English. Liam Corley is associate professor of English at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he teaches...

.... Lewes, George Henry. 1964 [1843]. “Augustus Wilhelm Schlegel.” Foreign Quarterly Review 32 , no. 9 (1843): 164 -79. Reprinted in Literary Criticism of George Henry Lewes, ed. Alice R. Kaminsky, 26-32. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. McPherson, Robert G. 1959 . Theory of Higher Education...

... at California State University, Sacramento, where she teaches composition, Renaissance literature, and literary theory. Motivated by a question she once overheard at an interview, So what difference does theory make in the classroom? she has published articles on literary theory and pedagogy in College...

..., Jonathan. 2003 . “Imagining the Coherence of the English Major.” Profession 2003 : 85 -93. Eagleton, Terry. 1996 . Literary Theory: An Introduction , 2nd ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Eberly, Mary B., Sarah E. Newton, and Robert A. Wiggins. 2001 . “The Syllabus as a Tool...

.... ———. 2010. Free Play Productions, www.freeplay.com/Top/index.m5.html . Rouzie, Albert. 2005 . At Play in the Fields of Writing: A Serio-ludic Rhetoric . Cresskill, NJ: Hampton. Slethaug, Gordon E. 1993a . “Game Theory.” In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory , ed. Irena R. Makaryk...