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...Leslie Ritchie © 2005 Duke University Press 2005 The Making of the Modern Child: Children's Literature and Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century . By Andrew O'Malley. London: Routledge,2003. Anonymous. 2004 [1687]. The Pleasant History of Thomas Hickathrift . Printed...

...Melissa Dennihy This essay discusses how and why one instructor uses a wiki as a space for students in a partially online American literature survey course to construct a class time line of American literature and history. Through participation in the class wiki, students are able to engage...

...Elizabeth Schirmer; Avilah Getzler This article describes a collaborative effort by faculty at two very different institutions to integrate the study of language change into surveys of early British literature. Using a series of structured assignments, the Word Project engages students directly...

...Gillian Steinberg The “Influence” model of introductory literature class focuses on a single central text, the works that influenced its composition, and works that developed from it, encouraging students to make connections among texts. Such a course model repositions power in the classroom...

...Beth Kalikoff © 2004 Duke University Press 2004 Teaching Literature . By Elaine Showalter. Malden, Mass.:Blackwell, 2003. Auden, W. H. 1948 . “Squares and Oblongs.”In Poets at Work: Essays Based on the Modern Poetry Collection at the Lockwood Memorial Library, University...

...Phoebe Jackson © 2005 Duke University Press 2005 Bérubé, Michael. 2002 . “Teaching to the Six.” Pedagogy 2 : 3 -15. Bizzell, Patricia. 1986 . “On the Possibility of a Unifi ed Theory of Composition and Literature.” Rhetoric Review 4 : 174 -80. Brooks, Jeff. 1991...

... -110. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey. Daly, Brenda. 1998 . Authoring a Life: A Woman's Survival in and through Literary Studies . Albany: State University of New York Press. Davis, Jane. 2000 . The White Image in the Black Mind: A Study in African American Literature . Westport, CT:Greenwood...

... Researcher 33.2 : 12 -20. Showalter, Elaine. 2003 . Teaching Literature . Malden: Blackwell. Tsui, Lisa. 2001 . “Faculty Attitudes and the Development of Students' Critical Thinking.” Journal of General Education 50 : 1 -28. ———. 2002 . “Fostering Critical Thinking through Effective...

...Julia Šarić © 2005 Duke University Press 2005 The Making of the Modern Child: Children's Literature and Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century . By Andrew O'Malley. London: Routledge,2003. Anonymous. 2004 [1687]. The Pleasant History of Thomas Hickathrift . Printed...

... and Communication 56 : 410 -25. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 6, Number 1, © 2006 Duke University Press 155 Roundtable The Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty. By Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori and Patricia Donahue. New York: Pearson Education...

..., Lizabeth A. 2001 . “Information Literacy: Fluency across and beyond the University.” In Library User Education: Powerful Learning, Powerful Partnerships , ed. Barbara I. Dewey, 1 -17. Lanham, MA: Scarecrow. Layering Knowledge: Information Literacy as Critical Thinking in the Literature...

...Tanya Agathocleous; Karin Gosselink Duke University Press 2006 Apter, Emily. 2004 . “Global Translatio: The `Invention' of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933.” In Debating World Literature , ed. Christopher Prendergast, 76 -109. New York: Verso. Bérubé, Michael. 2002...

...Cristina Vischer Bruns Duke University Press 2006 Why Does Literature Matter? By Frank B. Farrell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. Bauerlein, Mark, ed. 2005 . “Reading at Risk: A Forum.” Special issue, Forum: A Publication of the ALSC 2 . Perloff, Marjorie...

...Joe Lockard; Jillian Sandell This essay discusses the history of American literature anthologies from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century; examines their racial and gender inclusions and exclusions; and argues that literary anthologies have played an important role...

...Andrew Hock Soon Ng This article argues that teaching Asian American literature should include immeasurable and nontangible factors that accompany racial grief, such as cultural betrayal, the trauma of belonging interstitially, and the sensation of displacement. I propose that these be introduced...

...David G. Nicholls © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 American Culture and Literature. 2000 –2001. On-line academic catalog , Bilkent University. Accessed on 26 April 2001 at catalog.bilkent.edu.tr/current/dep/d22.html . Aytür, Necla. 1996 . “Interview with Ayse Kirtunç.” Journal...

...Casey Kayser This article discusses the convergence of the perspectives of literary, gender, and regional studies in the implementation of an oral history project as a service-learning requirement in an upper-level southern women's literature course, providing information about the model...

... of Erich Maria Remarque are based on the authority of the flesh-witness. To test Harari's claims, I invited ROTC officers to speak to students enrolled in a course titled British Literature: The Twentieth Century about their military experience. The juxtaposition of Harari's research and the officers...

... Black Joseph Conolly Leonard Flint Kate Grundy Isobel LePan Don Liuzza Roy McGann Jerome J. Prescott Anne Lake Qualls Barry Waters Claire , eds. 2009 . The Age of Romanticism. Vol. 4 of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature . Peterborough, Ontario...

...Tara Williams This article proposes three ways of using the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) to encourage students' curiosity about language and develop research and analytical skills in the literature classroom. By considering the OED as an object, including the size and cost of its multivolume...