... the consequences of this shift in the later chapters of Is There a Text in This Class? and his case for interpretive communities has had a significant effect on scholarly conversa- tions about textual interpretation, about percepts and concepts, about social Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature...

... by foregrounding the hybridity and performativity of the texts they teach and study. Building Intradisciplinarity in English Studies through Textual Hybridity and Performance Stephen Sutherland Martin Bickman powerfully argues that we need to make reader-response theory real in our classrooms and scholarship...

...Harriet Kramer Linkin This article argues that students still must be encouraged to participate in active, interpretive communities that build viable textual meanings in literature classes (and elsewhere). It questions how instructors in student-centered classrooms negotiate the balance between...

... the concept of literature to one organized around textuality: the production and reception of texts in all the media that use the English language. This will only be possible if we first recognize that English studies has really fallen. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Bellah, James Warner. 1962...

...Heather Palmer This essay explores how the “heat of composition” is inexorably linked to ethos and also how writers, student or otherwise, might seek to create and intensify pleasure through a sustained textual becoming. I consider how this ethics of affect is an unfolding, an exteriorization...

... from a static analysis of one issue to a more vibrant exploration of textual interplay. Vectored analysis provides a pedagogical foundation for students of all abilities to approach multigeneric texts and to reach deeper insights about them. In this essay, I demonstrate this approach with Chaucer's...

...erin Khuê Ninh This article shares tactics for teaching Blu’s Hanging as a text assigned because of its controversy, though not necessarily subsumed by it. The novel is presented so as to grapple with the stakes of ethnic/racial representation alongside careful textual analysis, using...

... forms of value in the labor and capital associated with textual work. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 reading digital reading digital literacy ambient information remix Works Cited Barlow John Perry . 1994 . “The Economy of Ideas.” Wired 2.03 , archive.wired.com/wired...

... significantly more radical — to question the purpose and potential of prison education. In the process, the essay measures close reading, a textual practice that is also the hallmark of literary study, against the highest possible liberationist goals of the prison abolition movement. © 2017 by Duke University...

...Laura Schechter Examining multiple English translations of the same text can productively engage students in the process of close reading. By scrutinizing seemingly minor variations in psalm translations, students begin to develop focused interpretations based on textual evidence...

...Danielle Barrios-O’Neill In recent decades, Belfast writer Ciarán Carson has emerged as one of the most inventive of contemporary literary voices, in part for his unique style of textualizing space. Driven in some ways by the very specific technological challenges of the conflict zone of Troubles...

...’ rhetorical awareness and engage them more fully as participants in a textually mediated society. critical pedagogy first year composition identity racial literacy reading Those of us who engage critical pedagogies in composition studies know that literacy is not merely an academic skill...

... that “reading” the film in terms of gender and genre can not only help students apply modes of textual analysis to narratives in other media but also alert them to the location of such narratives within larger discursive frameworks of defining national identities. Raazi presents a critical and ideological...

...Erick Kelemen Textual criticism, often ignored or confined to graduate study, is academic writing based on close reading and therefore is ideal for undergraduate study because it teaches readers to be more careful and skeptical. Critical editing assignments require students to negotiate historical...

...Alexandria Peary The outsider ethos established by Ken Macrorie, Peter Elbow, and Donald Murray in their early books is a driving force behind process pedagogy. Close textual analysis of these theorists can help writing instructors better understand the role of ethos in process pedagogy...

... in the news media, an improved understanding of the strategies that scholars use when they gather and interpret textual evidence, and intelligent discussions about the implications of rhetorical strategies utilizing Otherness. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Works Cited Allen Susan P...

... classroom practices of reading, writing, discussing, and listening, the instructor can forge an environment that strengthens students’ capacity to appreciate the textual and contemporary interaction between individuals and their historical contexts, and to hear alternative perspectives and experiences...

...Rachel McCabe Abstract Any attempt to control the content and conversations of first-year composition classrooms has become increasingly complicated by social media and technology. Building on the types of textual difficulty explored by scholars like Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori and Patricia Donahue...

... to explore various ways that textual representations of Appalachia reveal social and economic patterns noticeable in some form elsewhere. These snapshots of student writing suggest promising possibilities for me—a belief shaped by my responsibilities as an instructor teaching a general education class...

... possibilities inherent in new media compositions. New media compositions privilege all sign systems equally to the alphabet; thus, new media composition potentially can change the cultural practices of knowledge production and teaching in English studies. To Be Lettered: Textuality in English Studies...