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American Poetry Wax Museum, The: Reality Effects, 1940-1990

Author(s): Jed Rasula

Drawing upon an impressive array of sources, Rasula combines literary criticism, cultural studies, and social history in an analysis that works to disrupt prevailing myths about poets and poetry in the public sphere and in the academy.

Level(s): College

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Changing Classroom Practices: Resources for Literary and Cultural Studies

Editor(s): David B. Downing

While English studies has sponsored considerable and clearly important theoretical debate among literary and cultural critics about the sociopolitical significance of teaching, that debate has produced relatively few concrete, well-developed models for what our reconfigured literary and cultural studies classrooms might look like. These 14 essays offer just such models.

Level(s): College

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Composition and Sustainability: Teaching for a Threatened Generation

Author(s): Derek Owens

Derek Owens argues that, in light of worsening environmental crises and accelerating social injustices, we need to use sustainability as a way to structure courses and curricula, and that composition studies, with its inherent cross-disciplinarity and its unique function in students’ academic lives, can play a key role in giving sustainability a central place in students’ thinking and in the curriculum as a whole.

Level(s): College

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Composition and/or Literature:
The End(s) of Education

Editor(s): Linda S. Bergmann, Edith M. Baker

This collection focuses on the rift between literature and composition in English studies, examining the extent to which this division affects teaching practices in colleges and universities.

Level(s): College

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Critical Literacy and the Aesthetic: Transforming the English Classroom

Author(s): Ray Misson, Wendy Morgan

Ray Misson and Wendy Morgan address the role of aesthetics in an age of postmodern criticism, showing how critical literacy and the aesthetic are reconcilable in literary theory and practice.

Level(s): Secondary, College

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Deranging English/Education: Teacher Inquiry, Literary Studies, and Hybrid Visions of "English" for 21st Century Schools

Author(s): John A. Staunton

Staunton offers case studies and aims to unsettle traditional perspectives on research, practice, and curriculum, arguing that the way teachers are prepared in English education and English programs in college does not match the realities of teachers' experiences in real classrooms.

Level(s): College

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English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s)

Editor(s): Bruce McComiskey

Edited by Bruce McComiskey, this collection of essays addresses the question "What is English studies?" and treats each component of the discipline as a separate but equal partner in the larger discipline.

Level(s): College

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Mina P. Shaughnessy: Her Life and Work

Author(s): Jane Maher

This book is a biography of a leading figure in the field of basic writing and a devoted advocate of Open Admissions.

Level(s): College

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Multicultural Hybridity: Transforming American Literary Scholarship and Pedagogy

Author(s): Laurie Grobman

Grobman argues that texts by writers of color are multiply inflected hybrids that blur, but do not erase, cultural difference, thereby allowing for multiple intersections of meaning.

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Persons in Process: Four Stories of Writing and Personal Development in College

Author(s): Anne J. Herrington, Marcia Curtis

The authors provide insight into the ways that students' academic and personal uses of writing reflect each other, as well as ways that, in responding to students’ writing, teachers can help as well as hinder these interrelated developmental processes.

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