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Critical encounters in high school English : teaching literary theory to adolescents / Deborah Appleman ; foreword by Arthur N. Applebee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Language and literacy seriesPublication details: New York : Teachers College Press, 2000 Description: xvi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 080773974X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 9780807739747 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820/.71/273
LOC classification:
  • PR 33 A648c 2000
Contents:
The case for critical theory in the classroom Through the looking glass: introducing multiple perspectives The lens of reader response: the promise and peril of response-based pedagogy Of grave diggers and kings: reading literature through the Marxist lens, or, What's class got to do with it? A lens of one's own: of yellow wallpaper and beautiful little fools Deconstruction: postmodern theory and the postmodern high school student From study guides to poststructuralism: teacher transformations Critical encounters: reading the world Appendix: Classroom activities
Summary: Provides strategies for teaching literary theory to adolescents, providing examples from various literary texts and covering reader response, Marxist, feminist, and deconstructivist theory, and other related topics
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PR 33 A648c 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000014266

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index.

The case for critical theory in the classroom
Through the looking glass: introducing multiple perspectives
The lens of reader response: the promise and peril of response-based pedagogy
Of grave diggers and kings: reading literature through the Marxist lens, or, What's class got to do with it?
A lens of one's own: of yellow wallpaper and beautiful little fools
Deconstruction: postmodern theory and the postmodern high school student
From study guides to poststructuralism: teacher transformations
Critical encounters: reading the world
Appendix: Classroom activities

Provides strategies for teaching literary theory to adolescents, providing examples from various literary texts and covering reader response, Marxist, feminist, and deconstructivist theory, and other related topics

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