Critical Encounters in High School English : Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents

by Appleman, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780807739747
• ISBN10: 080773974X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

This book challenges current paradigms of literature instruction by making a case for teaching critical theory in high school literature classrooms. It argues for the importance of multiple critical perspectives and urges teachers to expand their theoretical repertoires.

Teachers will find actual lessons and strategies for teaching a variety of contemporary literary theories including reader response, feminism, Marxism, and deconstruction.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Arthur N. Applebee
Preface	xiii
Introduction	xv
The Case for Critical Theory in the Classroom	1	(11)
Through the Looking Glass: Introducing Multiple Perspectives	12	(13)
The Lens of Reader Response: The Promise and Peril of Response-Based Pedagogy	25	(32)
Of Grave Diggers and Kings: Reading Literature Through the Marxist Lens, or, What's Class Got to Do with it?	57	(17)
A Lens of One's Own: Of Yellow Wallpaper and Beautiful Little Fools	74	(25)
Deconstruction: Postmodern Theory and the Postmodern High School Student	99	(18)
From Study Guides to Poststructuralism: Teacher Transformations	117	(20)
Critical Encounters: Reading the World	137	(12)
Appendix: Classroom Activities	149	(38)
References	187	(4)
Selected Literary Texts	191	(2)
Index	193	(7)
About the Author	200