Literature and Lives: a Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach to Teaching English
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 454 522 CS 217 588 AUTHOR Carey-Webb, Allen TITLE Literature and Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach to Teaching English. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. ISBN ISBN-0-8141-2964-1 PUB DATE 2001-00-00 NOTE 236p. AVAILABLE FROM National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock No. 29641: $21.95 members, $28.95 nonmembers). Tel: 800-369-6283 (Toll Free); Web site http://www.ncte.org. PUB TYPE Books (010) Guides Non-Classroom (055) Opinion Papers (120) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC10 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Classics (Literature); *English Instruction; Higher Education; *Literary Criticism; *Reader Response; Secondary Education; Thematic Approach; *World Literature IDENTIFIERS Controversial Topics; *Cultural Studies; Multicultural Literature; Response Centered Classroom; *Response to Literature ABSTRACT Telling stories from secondary and college English classrooms, this book explores the new possibilities for teaching and learning generated by bringing together reader-response and cultural-studies approaches. The book connects William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and other canonical figures to multicultural writers, popular culture, film, testimonial, politics, history, and issues relevant to contemporary youth. Each chapter contains brief explications of literary scholarship and theory, and each is followed by extensive annotated bibliographies of multicultural literature, approachable scholarship and theory, and relevant Internet sites. Each chapter also contains descriptions of classroom units and activities focusing on a particular theme, such as genocide, homelessness, race, gender, youth violence, (post)colonialism, class relations, and censorship; and discussion of ways in which students often respond to such "hot-button" topics.
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