Language and Limits: Resisting Reform in English Studies (SUNY Series, - Couverture souple

Tuman, Myron C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791436527 ISBN 13 : 9780791436523

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1998

Synopsis

Presents a clear and forceful counter-statement about tensions and trends in contemporary English studies, offering at the same time a carefully reasoned critique of rationalistic forces within education and culture generally.

What could be more commonsensical than the notion that students need to become more critical readers and writers, subjecting the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes they encounter to closer, "critical" scrutiny? Yet is not the deep suspicion of common sense one of the founding principles of critical pedagogy? Here at last is a book that attempts to look closely at the broad cultural and historical assumptions behind efforts to remake how we teach both composition and literature, in the latter case, how the rooting out of authorial or textual bias is replacing traditional notions of identification and empathy. The result is a broad cultural history of English studies and how its distinctive notion of deep language has fostered a special kind of resistance to reforms over the last two hundred years.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Myron C. Tuman is Professor of English at the University of Alabama. He has written several books, including Word Perfect: Literacy in the Computer Age and A Preface to Literacy: An Inquiry into Pedagogy, Practice, and Progress; as well as the software, Norton Textra Writer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791436527
• ISBN 13: 9780791436523
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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