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Teaching Theory R. Bradford

Teaching Theory By R. Bradford

Teaching Theory by R. Bradford


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Teaching Theory offers a selection of essays on the pragmatics, benefits and shortcomings of Theory as a key aspect of literature teaching in universities. They range from reflective discussions of Theory as an intellectual challenge for undergraduates to accounts of the day-to-day problems of planning and teaching courses and implementing Theory.

Teaching Theory Summary

Teaching Theory by R. Bradford

Teaching Theory offers a selection of essays on the pragmatics, benefits and shortcomings of Theory as a key aspect of literature teaching in universities. They range from reflective discussions of Theory as an intellectual challenge for undergraduates to accounts of the day-to-day problems of planning and teaching courses and implementing Theory.

About R. Bradford

JILL LE BIHAN Lecturer in English, Sheffield Hallam University, UK KATHERINE BYRNE Lecturer in English, University of Ulster, UK MADELENA GONZALEZ Professor of English Literature, University of Avignon, France ANDREW HADFIELD Professor of English, University of Sussex, UK ANDREW JAMES Lecturer, Chikushi Women's University, Japan VINCENT B. LEITCH George Lynn Cross Research Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA NEIL MURPHY Associate Professor of Contemporary Literature, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore STEPHEN SHAPIRO Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Warwick University, UK LEONA TOKER Professor in the English Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Table of Contents

Series Preface Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction: The History and Present Condition of Theory: A Brief Account Teaching Theory; V.B.Leitch Appendix: Theory Heuristics: Short Guide for Students The Resistance to History: Teaching in the Present; A.Hatfield The Attractions of Theory; J.Le Bihan Syntactics - Semantics - Pragmatics (Still Having One's Cake?); L.Toker The Motivation of Literary Theory: From National Culture to World Literature; S.Shapiro Marketing Theory: An Overview of Theory Guides; A.James From Theory to Practice: Literary Studies in the Classroom; K.Byrne At Home in Theory? Teaching One's Way through the Significant Silences of the French Academy; M.Gonzalez Reading by Recipe: Postcolonial Theory and the Practice of Reading; C.Murphy Do I Hate Theory?; R.Bradford Recommended Further Reading Index

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NLS9780230520745
9780230520745
023052074X
Teaching Theory by R. Bradford
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2011-01-26
193
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