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The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880
David Gershom Myers
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Description for The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880
Paperback. Explores the debate over how writing should be taught and whether it can or should be taught in a classroom at all. This book incorporates insights from a host of poets and teachers, and extracts relevant information on nineteenth-century educational theory; shifts in technology, publishing, and marketing; and the politics of higher education. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CBV; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
When Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: "What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?" That anecdote, with which D. G. Myers begins "The Elephants Teach", perfectly frames the issues this book tackles. Myers explores more than a century of debate over how writing should be taught and whether it can or should be taught in a classroom at all. Along the way, he incorporates insights from a host of poets and teachers, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, John Berryman, John Dewey, Lionel Trilling, Robert ... Read more
When Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: "What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?" That anecdote, with which D. G. Myers begins "The Elephants Teach", perfectly frames the issues this book tackles. Myers explores more than a century of debate over how writing should be taught and whether it can or should be taught in a classroom at all. Along the way, he incorporates insights from a host of poets and teachers, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, John Berryman, John Dewey, Lionel Trilling, Robert ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226554549
SKU
V9780226554549
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About David Gershom Myers
D. G. Myers is associate professor of English at Texas A&M University. He is coeditor of the anthology Unrelenting Readers: The New Poet-Critics.
Reviews for The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880
"The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book." - Tony Ardizzone, author of In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu"