Insightful, all around great read

As if this wasn’t already evident in my reaction to the first half of his narrative last week, I find Scholes’ book so refreshing.  I am not an English teacher, so I suppose I may not understand if his methods or proposals could be accepted in high school curricula, but nevertheless, I think he is [...]

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Can’t we all just get along?

The tactit assumption has been that students should be exposed only to the results of professional controversies, not to the controversies themselves, which would presumably confuse or demoralize them.
So if we have learned any key concept so far in this class, it is that the field of English Studies is defined by conflict. What is [...]

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