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Collaborating, Literature And Composition: An Anthology Of Essays For Teachers And Writers Of English, Lisa Eck
Lisa Eck
The disciplines of English and composition seem particularly prone to crisis-driven proclamations: our kids don't read the great works of they don't read at all or they can't write. Crisis talk notwithstanding, educators are left to theorize and practice ways to teach reading and writing with intelligence, compassion, and integrity. However, it often seems that theoretical formulations do not sufficiently explain their practicable applications; and practicable discussions too rarely rise above the level of swapping recipes--sharing assignments that work well in one context but may not in another. Therefore, the editors of this volume submit this collection of essays that …
Thinking Globally, Teaching Locally, The Nervous Conditions Of Cross-Cultural Literacy, Lisa Eck
Thinking Globally, Teaching Locally, The Nervous Conditions Of Cross-Cultural Literacy, Lisa Eck
Lisa Eck
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Human Rights Pedagogy, Lisa Eck, Benjamin Alberti
Individualism: The Cultural Logic Of Modernity, Lisa Eck
Individualism: The Cultural Logic Of Modernity, Lisa Eck
Lisa Eck
Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and then individualism in the twentieth century.
These essays boldly challenge not only the exclusionary framework and self-assured teleology, but also the metaphysical certainty of that remarkably tenacious narrative on "the rise of the individual." Some essays question the correlation of realist characterization to the eighteenth-century British novel, while others champion the continuing political relevance …