Appleman, Deborah, 1944-

Critical encounters in high school English : teaching literary theory to adolescents / Deborah Appleman ; foreword by Arthur N. Applebee. - New York : Teachers College Press, 2000 - xvi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Language and literacy series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index.

The case for critical theory in the classroom
Through the looking glass: introducing multiple perspectives
The lens of reader response: the promise and peril of response-based pedagogy
Of grave diggers and kings: reading literature through the Marxist lens, or, What's class got to do with it?
A lens of one's own: of yellow wallpaper and beautiful little fools
Deconstruction: postmodern theory and the postmodern high school student
From study guides to poststructuralism: teacher transformations
Critical encounters: reading the world
Appendix: Classroom activities

Provides strategies for teaching literary theory to adolescents, providing examples from various literary texts and covering reader response, Marxist, feminist, and deconstructivist theory, and other related topics

080773974X (pbk. : acid-free paper) 9780807739747 (pbk. : acid-free paper)


Literatura inglesa --Estudio y enseñanza
Literatura inglesa --Historia y crítica

PR 33 / A648c 2000

820/.71/273