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Representations of the Field in Graduate Courses: Using Parody to Question All Positions
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Mack, Nancy – College English, 2009
The author reports on and analyzes the inclusion of parody in her sequence of assignments for a graduate composition theory seminar. She contends that having students write parodies of particular theorists and theoretical camps enables them to gain critical leverage that they might not otherwise obtain on a field (in this case, composition…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Parody
Some Recently Discovered Letters of M.G. Oose
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Goodstein, Jack – College English, 1974
Descriptors: Biographies, Letters (Correspondence), Literary Criticism, Literary Genres
Comment and Response.
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College English, 1986
Contains comment on and Hartwell's response to Patrick Hartwell's "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar" (CE, February l985) and comment on Mikhail Bakhtin's "Rhetorical Theorist" (CE, October l985). (EL)
Descriptors: College English, English (Second Language), Grammar, Irony
The Apple Ate My Paper.
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Bodmer, George R. – College English, 1984
Updates the list of classic excuses students make to teachers when their paper is late--this time in reference to the mishaps that may occur with a computer. (CRH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Humor, Microcomputers, Parody
Erotic Hermeneutics.
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Bell, Robert H. – College English, 1981
A facetious private detective story embroidered with literary interpretation, autobiography, logical positivism, David Hume on personal identity, and "The Happy Hooker." (RL)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Higher Education, Humor, Literary Criticism
Parody and Pedagogy: Explorations in Imitative Literature.
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Ruszkiewicz, John J. – College English, 1979
When assigned to do parodies of literary works, students explore a variety of legitimate parodic relationships of significant critical interest. (DD)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
On Not Talking: An Experience in Teaching Poetry
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Stallman, Robert L. – College English, 1974
Descriptors: Emotional Experience, English Instruction, Learning Experience, Learning Processes