Teaching literature : writers and teachers talking / interviews edited by Judy Kravis.
Contributor(s): Kravis, Judy
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BookPublisher: Cork : Cork University Press, 1995Description: viii, 275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 1859180256; 1859180264 .Subject(s): Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 820.7 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 820.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00014246 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Teaching Literature is a challenging re-evaluation of the reasons behind why and how we teach literature. Judy Kravis, an experienced writer and university teacher asks fundamental questions of well known authors and teachers about their work and uncovers their perception of literature and its value to us as we approach the end of the 20th century. In a series of interviews with well known writers and teachers such as Edmund White, Hermione Lee, Andrei Codrescu, Grace Paley, Howard Barker and Anne Waldman, she probes their response to the value of literature for students and considers their different approaches as writers, teachers, academics, poets and performers. A consensus emerges from these interviews in which literature, and books are discussed as part of our relationship with the world - we know them in the same way as we know people, with warmth, familiarity and strangeness.
Introduction / Judy Kravis -- What is the point of your grandmother? / Gabriel Josipovici -- Free Explanatory space / Hermione Lee -- The pleasures of Fried Shoes / Ron Padgett -- A living and Breathing Organism / Anne Waldman -- The Butterfly and the Rhinoceros / Kenneth Koch -- To activate the crowd / Eoin Bourke -- It's not there for the taking, It's there for the making / Ciaran Cosgrove -- Ed's favourite books / Edmund White -- F slits T / Anne Enright -- Interview by Mail / Guy Davenport -- Passion and Possibility / Andrei Codrescu -- Macbeth as Serial Killer / David Matlin -- Stories from the beginning of the Word / Dermot Healy -- Jostling with the text / Mike Hayhoe -- Canon to the right of me ... / Katha Pollitt -- The dark tower of Criticism / Elizabeth Macklin -- Ventriloquism and its voices / Luke Gibbons -- The top button on my pyjamas / Tom Mullins -- To champion the human / Linsey Abrams -- What is mayhem? / Jean Valentine -- Different places, Mysterious Places / Grace Paley -- Education is Friction / Howard Barker -- Teaching literature is an Oxymoron / John Giorno.