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Transforming English With Graphic Novels: Moving Toward Our "Optimus Prime", James Carter Oct 2007

Transforming English With Graphic Novels: Moving Toward Our "Optimus Prime", James Carter

James B Carter

I argue for the transformative potential of graphic novels in the English classroom.


Voice In Writing Again: Embracing Contraries, Peter Elbow Oct 2007

Voice In Writing Again: Embracing Contraries, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

"Voice in writing" has fallen into a kind of limbo as a topic: it's vexed; it's discredited by most composition scholars; it's not much written about recently; and yet it remains widely used by readers, teachers, and writers. I examine good reasons for paying lots of attention to voice when we read and teach writing; and also good reasons for ignoring it. And finally insist that we can usefully do both.


Should We Invite Students To Write In Home Languages? Complicating The Yes/No Debate, Peter Elbow Mar 2007

Should We Invite Students To Write In Home Languages? Complicating The Yes/No Debate, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.


Building Literacy Connections With Graphic Novels: Page By Page, Panel By Panel, James Carter Dec 2006

Building Literacy Connections With Graphic Novels: Page By Page, Panel By Panel, James Carter

James B Carter

A book devoted to using graphic novels in the classroom for authentic literacy experiences, focusing upon pairing graphica with young adult or canonical texts. The URL is to the book's page at the publisher's.


Carving A Niche: Graphic Novels In The English Language Arts Classroom, James Carter Dec 2006

Carving A Niche: Graphic Novels In The English Language Arts Classroom, James Carter

James B Carter

An introduction to the roles that graphic novels can play in the secondary English Language Arts classroom.


Imagetext In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, James Carter Dec 2006

Imagetext In The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, James Carter

James B Carter

Notions of WJT Mitchell's imagetext are explored as they are revealed in Mark Haddon's young adult novel *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time*. Christopher Boone's particular way of reading the world illuminates imagetext relationships.


Politics And Language, Max Skidmore, Andrew Cline Dec 2006

Politics And Language, Max Skidmore, Andrew Cline

Max J. Skidmore

A collection of essays dealing from various points of view with the political effects of language usage


Training And Vision: Roth, Delillo, Banks, Peck, And The Postmodern Aesthetics Of Vocation, Sean Mccann Dec 2006

Training And Vision: Roth, Delillo, Banks, Peck, And The Postmodern Aesthetics Of Vocation, Sean Mccann

Sean McCann

No abstract provided.


Theory’S Empire—Wrestling The Fogbank, Sean Mccann Dec 2006

Theory’S Empire—Wrestling The Fogbank, Sean Mccann

Sean McCann

No abstract provided.


Dark Passages: Jazz And Civil Liberty In The Postwar Crime Film, Sean Mccann Dec 2006

Dark Passages: Jazz And Civil Liberty In The Postwar Crime Film, Sean Mccann

Sean McCann

No abstract provided.


Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, And The Form Of Tragicomedy, Zachary Lesser Dec 2006

Tragical-Comical-Pastoral-Colonial: Economic Sovereignty, Globalization, And The Form Of Tragicomedy, Zachary Lesser

Zachary Lesser

I examine the politics of tragicomedy by focusing on its 1620s shift from pastoral to proto-colonial settings. This formal transformation reveals the genre's connection to economic debates over England's coin shortage and to Thomas Mun's abstract, global model of trade, removed from monarchical authority and naturalized in self-regulating "laws of commerce." Like Mun's model, tragicomedy requires us to imagine the ability of past actions and distant causes to ramify across time and space. Set on a barren, inaccessible island, Fletcher and Massinger's Sea Voyage isolates the nature of money and demonstrates the dangers of transgressing the natural law of commerce.


Mystic Ciphers: Shakespeare And Intelligent Design: A Response To Nancy Glazener, Zachary Lesser Dec 2006

Mystic Ciphers: Shakespeare And Intelligent Design: A Response To Nancy Glazener, Zachary Lesser

Zachary Lesser

A discussion of the Shakespeare "authorship controversy" in relation to the "debate" over evolution and intelligent design.


Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow Dec 2006

Vernacular Literacy, Peter Elbow

Peter Elbow

No abstract provided.