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...-era Belfast, Carson’s poetry and prose are marked by what we might describe as tech paranoia—but, in a constructive poetic answer, his texts create new logics for using tech materials, machines, and high-tech spaces in ways that privilege creativity. It is no coincidence, notes literary and technology...

... Scholes, Comley, and Ulmer successfully show how to teach college students difficult texts and critical thinking through imitating language and forms drawn from wide-ranging models. In so doing, students realize how ideas circulate between popular and high culture, and how literary texts inform one...

...Elizabeth Hatmaker Teaching with Student Texts: Essays toward an Informed Practice . Edited by Harris Joseph Miles John D. Paine Charles . Logan : Utah State University Press , 2010 . © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

...Paul D. Reich; Emily Russell This article makes a case for the value of literary field studies as a way both to reframe familiar narratives about texts and to open up regions and sites to the analytic mode of close reading. The authors describe their experiences teaching a seminar and week-long...

..., that inform both Thoreau’s narrative and the activity of reading itself, and they argue that such online engagement can be a valuable addition to traditional, face-to-face discussion. Thoreau and “Walden”: A Fluid Text Edition © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Henry David Thoreau...

...Heather McAlpine Abstract This article discusses best practices for teaching text encoding in undergraduate literary studies courses. It examines learning outcomes associated with text encoding and ways of incorporating encoding into the teaching of literary analysis, as well as advantages...

...Betsy Klima Abstract This article argues that performance pedagogy can invest students in difficult literary texts through slow reading and textual adaptation. Drawing on her experience of teaching Herman Melville's “Benito Cereno” to her multilingual students, the author uses Melville's interest...

.... Through this process, I encourage students to engage in vectored analysis, which I describe as the examination of a text from at least two converging yet separate perspectives. Encouraging students to examine literature from complementary and vectoring perspectives enables them to make the cognitive leap...

...Lisa King This article discusses how teaching students to recognize the contemporary American Indian theoretical concepts of “rhetorical sovereignty” and “rhetorical alliance” in Native texts can help deepen understanding of American Indian voices and histories in an appropriate context, while also...

...Caitlin Kelly This article argues that to help students join academic conversations we should look for opportunities to integrate multimedia texts into the classroom, both as artifacts to study and as models for assignments. In contrast to traditional assignments like response papers, projects...

... with Close Reading . New York : Routledge . Fish Stanley . 1982 . Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Foer Jonathan Safran . 2002 . Everything Is Illuminated . New York : Houghton Mifflin...

... Composition and Communication 63 , no. 3 : 361 – 64 . The Possibilities of Uncertainty Digital Archives as Cunning Texts in a First- Year Composition Curriculum Joshua Daniel- Wariya and Lynn C. Lewis As writing program administrators at a large land- grant research university, we train, observe...

...Joseph J. Letter This essay discusses the impact of using serialized reading texts, like magazines, in writing instruction. It explains an advanced expository writing course that uses the New Yorker magazine as a frame for addressing the significance of contemporaneity and performance in student...

...Gina Brandolino Innocent III’s 1215 decree requiring an annual confession of all Christians spurred the development of religious instructional works, some of the first texts written for nonnoble audiences and arguably the ancestors of working-class literature. This article explains the historical...

...Marielle Risse The article discusses the necessary compromises inherent in choosing interesting, authentic, and appropriate texts for Middle Eastern classrooms. With nine years’ experience teaching literature in the Arabian Peninsula, Risse argues that the choice of texts and the methods...

... Reviews Teaching Pilgrimage through Primary Texts Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Reader. Edited by Brett Edward Whalen. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures 16. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Damian Fleming Pilgrimage is one of the defining features...