The thirteen essays that make up the first part of Teaching Children's Literature highlight issues of canon, pedagogy, genre, and period. In part 2, fifteen course descriptions by experienced teachers offer a wealth of information on undergraduate courses, specific approaches to children's literature, and workshops and graduate-level seminars. The ......
Fourteen essays chart the history of writing-in-the-disciplines programs in the United States and Great Britain and examine the forms they have taken in American higher education.
Includes a state-by-state survey of direct or indirect aid for parochial and other non-public schools. This work also discusses the controversy in American education on church and state.
One of the most influential critics of the twentieth century, Leo Spitzer (1887-1960) published more than 1,000 books and articles in a number of languages, including Basque, Catalan, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Provencal, Romanian, and Spanish. Baer and Shenholm have compiled and annotated the first comprehensive bibliography ......
The Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship, 1974-1989
Since 1974, the Florence Howe Award has honored distinguished feminist literary criticism written by scholars in the fields of language and literature study. Seventeen winning essays-many never before published-are collected in one volume, Courage and Tools. Written by leading scholars and theorists, these groundbreaking essays discuss topics such ......
Theoretical Approaches and Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage
This book explores biased usage in depth-its origins, its effect, the related controversies-and provides sensible and sensitive guidelines for nondiscriminatory speech and writing.
Growing out of a conference of representatives of programs that grant the doctorate in English, this volume examines the profession and the ways that graduate students are socialized into it. The essays sketch the profession's current views of the relation between reading and writing, addressing, in the words of the preface, "what it is that can ......
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and ......
Dom Combe presents the reader a sharply focused profile of a dedicated and extraordinary woman of the 20th century, Henry James'sister-in-law, independent in spirit and passionately devoted for more than 60 years to the cause of Gregorian Chant and its liturgical implementation. Drawing on her voluminous correspondence, he traces the main events ......
