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