Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides / Edition 1

by Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Irene Papoulis

Overview

Most faculty members of college and university English departments would acknowledge frequent interdepartmental tensions between faculty members who specialize in literature and those who specialize in composition. Yet many literature faculty regularly teach composition and/or have administrative responsibilities in writing programs and writing centers. Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides is an anthology of articles by faculty who reject the low status commonly assigned to composition and articulate ways to combine literature and composition as teachers and scholars. Ultimately, these essays signal possible ways to repair the rift between the divisions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820451503
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	04/02/2003
Series:	Studies in Composition and Rhetoric , #4
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

The Editors: Michelle M. Tokarczyk is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Writing Program at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Her publications include E. L. Doctorow’s Skeptical Commitment (Peter Lang, 2000) and Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory, an award-winning co-edited anthology.
Irene Papoulis is Lecturer in the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and Associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. She has published articles in Into the Field: Sites of Competition Studies; Writing with Elbow; and other edited collections, as well as in various journals in the field of composition studies.

Table of Contents

Contents: Michelle M. Tokarczyk/Irene Papoulis: Introduction – Marilyn Rye: Using Composition Strategies in the Literature Classroom to Develop «Critical» Readers and «Critical Relativism» – Evelyn Pezzulich: Shifting Paradigms: The Reemergence of Literary Texts in Composition Classrooms – Steven Frye/Eric Carl Link: Academic Writing and the Humanities: An Option for Literature-Trained Ph.D.s – Lynn Z. Bloom: Coming of Age in a Field That Had No Name – Carol Poston: Teaching Across the Boundaries: Discovery in Literature and Research-Writing Classrooms – James N. Mancall: Up the Down Staircase: Literature Ph.D.s Working in The Divide – Martha F. Bowden: Teacher and Scholar: Reconciling Literature and Composition – Joanne Farrell: Scholarship or Service: Negotiating the «Great Divide» – Joanne M. Podis/Leonard A. Podis: Beyond Fear and (Self-)Loathing in the Composition-Literature Wars: Contextualizing the Politics of Writing Assignments in English Studies – Judith Burdan/Julie Ann Hagemann: Good Fences Don’t Always Make Good Neighbors: Using Rhetorical Reading to Bridge the Gap Between Literature and Writing – Peter Elbow: The Cultures of Literature and Composition: What Could Each Learn from the Other?