Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies / / ed. by Stephanie Johnson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bateman, Geoffrey W.,; Bauer-Gatsos, Sheila,; Egan-Ryan, Deirdre,; Hasler-Brooks, Kerry,; Johnson, Stephanie L.,; Loustaunau, Esteban E.,; Mare Maupin, Giffen,; Myers, Joanne E.,; Paden, Jeremy,; Peterson, John,; Stevens, Jason,; Van Laningham, Erin,; Wee, Allison,
• HerausgeberIn: Johnson, Stephanie,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

An important resource for educators seeking to connect literary studies with vocational exploration and purposeBridges the established discipline of literary studies with the emerging scholarship of vocation through literary criticism, pedagogical methods, and theoryArgues for the significance of li...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Contributor Biographies
• Introduction
• Part I: Forms
• 1. Disciplinary Form: Introduction to Literary Studies
• 2. Novels, Vocation and the Call of the Unfinished Story
• 3. Poetry’s Lyric Call
• 4. The Drama of Vocation
• Part II: Voices
• 5. Queer Callings: LGBTQ Literature and Vocation
• 6. Seeing Gender: A Vocation of One’s Own
• 7. Anti-Racism as Vocational Practice: Reading with Alice Walker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Edwidge Danticat
• 8. The Possibility of Intervention: Vocational Exploration in Non-Fiction Immigrant Narratives
• 9. Translating Vocation
• Part III: Praxis
• 10. Encountering the Archive
• 11. Narrating Our Wounds: Trauma, Literature and Vocation
• 12. Creative Criticism and the Vital Friction of Otherness
• 13. Community-Engaged Pedagogy, Literary Studies and Vocation
• Epilogue: The Professoriate as Vocation
• Index