Play and the Politics of Reading : : The Social Uses of Modernist Form / / Paul B. Armstrong.

"Classrooms and curricula should be structured to foster the playful interaction that can teach students how to negotiate social and political differences in an emancipatory, noncoercive manner. Teaching reading as a playful exercise of reciprocity with otherness can help prepare students for a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • Part One: Theory
  • 1. The Politics of Reading: Nonconsensual Reciprocity and the Negotiation of Differences
  • 2. Play, Power, and Difference: The Social Implications of Iscr's Aesthetic Theory
  • 3. Being "Out of Place": Edward Said and the Contradictions of Cultural Differences
  • Part Two: Criticism
  • 4. ART AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITY IN "THE DEATH OF THE LION"
  • 5. Historicizing Conrad: Temporal Form and the Politics of Reading
  • 6. Misogyny and the Ethics of Reading: The Problem of Conrad's Chance
  • 7. Liberalism and the Politics of Form: The Ambiguous Narrative Voice in Howards End
  • 8. Reading India: The Double Turns of Forster's Pragmatism
  • 9. JAMES JOYCE AND THE POLITICS OF READING
  • Pedagogical Postscript: Liberal Education, the English Major, and Pluralistic Literacy
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX