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It Works For Me, Too! More Shared Tips For Effective Teaching, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

In the four years since our first book on teaching, we have noticed both on our campus and around the country a new emphasis on the instructor as teacher (vs. scholar). We have read books on the subject, attended the prestigious Lilly Conference, helped establish a Teaching & Learning Center on our campus (Hal served as its first director), and written for new journals focusing on pedagogy. It Works For Me, Too! is our contribution to the Renaissance in College Pedagogy, our attempt to fuel this brightening interest in effective teaching. Like its predecessor, this book is a compilation of …

Drawing On Memory: A Technique For Making Short Fiction Come Alive, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

Considers how to get today's schoolchild and college student to move from the words to the picture, then back again. Explores the teaching technique of having students draw what the piece of literature describes. Finds that drawing the visual image provides a much better chance of understanding a work's significance. Describes how to apply this idea with a homework assignment.

Making The Right Call: Criteria For Choosing Short Fiction, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Hal Blythe

Notes that teachers who teach short fiction must consider several things when choosing which works to teach. Describes criteria the authors use when selecting works for their literature classes (World Literature Survey, American Literature, and Principles of Literary Study). Concludes by affirming the importance of choosing short fiction.

Psychic Waste: Freud, Fechner And The Principle Of Constancy, Suzanne Raitt

Suzanne Raitt

Serving Time (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Review of the book "Hey, Waitress! The USA From the Other Side of the Tray," by Alison Owings. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

Truth Is Stranger Than Folklore: Hugh Nibley, The Man And The Legend, Boyd J. Petersen

Boyd J Petersen

Separating the folklore from the fact proved difficult in creating a biography of Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley.

Ijelè: Welcoming The King Of Modern African Letters To Massachusetts, Chukwuma Azuonye

Chukwuma Azuonye

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The Caufield Family Of Writers In The Catcher In The Rye, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

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Moody's Blues, Hal Charles

Charlie Sweet

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Envy, The Desire For Fame, And Feminist Academics: A Lacanian Approach, Jean Wyatt

Jean Wyatt

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Holden's Mysterious Hat, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

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The Question Of Quality And Qualifications: Writing Inferior Poems As Qualitative Research, Jane Piirto

Jane Piirto

Alternative forms of data representation have been widely recommended, including the writing of poems as educational research. The arts have their own ways. What qualifications do arts-based researchers need to have? How does one judge the quality of the product? Using part of a novel and three of her own poems as illustrations, the author, a qualitative researcher and literary writer, conjectures about the notion of quality and qualification in the use of art forms as qualitative research.

Hope From Hopelessness: Finding Contemporary Southern Literature Through Anne Tyler’S Use Of The Sound And The Fury, Amy M. Elliott

Amy M. Elliott

Critical debate focuses on the trend of Southern writers and the classification of their work within the tradition of Southern literature. One side of the argument supports contemporary writers as part of the Southern literary tradition. That is, it proposes that contemporary Southern writers continue to write Southern literature not by writing with the same style and magnitude as Faulkner and Warren, but by basing their writing on this tradition and modernizing it. An excellent example lies in Anne Tyler’s use of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury as a foundation for her Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Through …

Disturbing Knowledge, Allison Schuette

Allison Schuette

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The Cultures Of Literature And Composition: What Could Each Learn From The Other?, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

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Floral Counterdiscourse: Miscegenation, Ecofeminism, And Hybridity In Lydia Maria Child's A Romance Of The Republic

Debra Rosenthal

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Pedagogy And The Christian Law Of Love, Marshall W. Gregory, Marshall W Gregory

Marshall W. Gregory

Tobias Smollett, The Life And Adventures Of Sir Launcelot Greaves (Scholarly Edition), Barbara Fitzpatrick, Robert Folkenflik

Barbara L. Fitzpatrick

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Crossing Boundaries: Postmodern Travel Literature, And: Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910 (Review), Julie Prebel

Julie Prebel

Reviews the books 'Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780–1910,' by Larzer Ziff and 'Crossing Boundaries: Postmodern Travel Literature,' by Alison Russell.

Grab Your Baskets, Girls, We’Re Going Shopping!, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

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Women In Fitzgerald's Fiction, Rena Sanderson

Irene (Rena) M. Sanderson

F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known as a chronicler of the 1920s and as the writer who, more than any other, identified, delineated, and popularized the female representative of that era, the flapper. Though it is an overstatement to say that Fitzgerald created the flapper, he did, with a considerable assistance from his wife Zelda, offer the public an image of a modern young woman who was spoiled, sexually liberated, self-centered, fun-loving, and magnetic. In Fitzgerald's mind, this young woman represented a new philosophy of romantic individualism, rebellion, and liberation, and his earliest writings enthusiastically present her as an embodiment …

Making The Right Call: Criteria For Choosing Short Fiction, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

Notes that teachers who teach short fiction must consider several things when choosing which works to teach. Describes criteria the authors use when selecting works for their literature classes (World Literature Survey, American Literature, and Principles of Literary Study). Concludes by affirming the importance of choosing short fiction.

Two Students Of Boethius, Russell Poole

Russell Poole

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Hemingway's Literary Sisters: The Author Through The Eyes Of Women Writers, Rena Sanderson

Irene (Rena) M. Sanderson

Ernest Hemingway's complex and ambivalent relationship with Gertrude Stein has been widely discussed. Relatively little has been said, however, about Hemingway's relationship with other women writers. Among those who played important roles in Hemingway's life and works were his wives, all of whom except Hadley Richardson were professional writers (and even Hadley proofread his stories before he submitted them). In addition, a number of other women writers participated in the making of Hemingway's public image and reputation. Three such women were Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, and Hemingway's third wife, Martha Gellhorn. The way these three responded to Hemingway and incidentally …

Lawrence's 'The Odor Of Chrysanthemums, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe

Charlie Sweet

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History, Religion, And Violence: Cultural Contexts For Medieval And Renaissance Drama, Variorum Series, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Reprinted essays, except for “Marlowe, the Papacy, and Doctor Faustus.”

Review Of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism, Edited By Michael North, Jayme Stayer

Jayme Stayer

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The ‘Conversion Verses’ Of Hallfreðr Vandræðaskáld, Russell Poole

Russell Poole

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Mixed Government And Mixed Marriage In A King And No King: Sir Henry Neville Reads Beaumont And Fletcher, Zachary Lesser

Zachary Lesser

A reading of the 1619 edition of A King and No King through the eyes of its print dedicatee, Sir Henry Neville, this article examines the play's treatment of the political theory of mixed government in relation to its handling of gender, incest, and marriage.

Warrior For Gringostroika (Book Review), Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

Reviews the book "Warrior for Gringostroika," by Guillermo Gomez-Peña. St. Paul, Minn: Graywolf Press, 1993.