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You've Got to Be Carefully Taught: Learning and Relearning Literature
Jerome Klinkowitz
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Hardcover. Drawing on his own experience in the profession, veteran English professor Jerome Klinkowitz discusses the wrong ways of teaching literature before presenting his own method. He concludes that a historically-based "story of English" is the wrong narrative approach to studying literature. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Drawing on his own experience in the profession, veteran English professor and internationally renowned scholar Jerome Klinkowitz sorts out the wrong ways of teaching literature before devising a new, successful method. Specifically, he concludes that a historically based ""story of English"" is precisely the wrong narrative approach to making sense of what literature does. Instead, Klinkowitz proposes a new method focused not on the product of literary writing but on the process of writing. Long involved with the making of contemporary literature, Klinkowitz shows how his classroom approach draws on the same strengths and inspirations writers use in the creation ... Read more
Drawing on his own experience in the profession, veteran English professor and internationally renowned scholar Jerome Klinkowitz sorts out the wrong ways of teaching literature before devising a new, successful method. Specifically, he concludes that a historically based ""story of English"" is precisely the wrong narrative approach to making sense of what literature does. Instead, Klinkowitz proposes a new method focused not on the product of literary writing but on the process of writing. Long involved with the making of contemporary literature, Klinkowitz shows how his classroom approach draws on the same strengths and inspirations writers use in the creation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809324033
SKU
V9780809324033
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About Jerome Klinkowitz
Jerome Klinkowitz, a professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa, is the author of forty books, including novels, collections of short stories, and studies of literature, philosophy, art, music, sport, and air combat narratives.
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