Abstract:[T]here are two competing ways to look at literacy: as information that one acquires—that can be taught to students—or as an ability that teachers can help students to develop…. [T]eachers of secondary and college-level reading and writing can respond to the literacy wars by examining and applying, with their students, the literacy theories under robust debate, thereby making awareness of the conflict part of students' mastery of literacy and of literary texts. Such spirited discussion of literacy itself can achieve goals on both sides in the literacy debate: both familiarity with the documents of our culture and ability to look analytically at those documents, to use literacy to influence the culture. To clarify this approach, I propose a reading of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World that explores and tests some current theories of literacy.
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{"title":"Looking Backwards: The Continuous March of Meaning Making and the Continual Modification of Our Manner of Teaching It","authors":"Jeraldine R. Kraver","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"164 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43822227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Although "Shooting an Elephant" is a first-person account, I like to point out to my students that the essay is not about the author; it is about Empire or, if they prefer, imperialism…. The essay tends to be a revelation for a certain kind of student used to learning political science in a textbook. As well, students with an interest in rhetoric are drawn to Orwell's integration of storyline and polemic. Literature majors who know a little postcolonial theory are often thrilled to see it brought to life in nonfiction—and they are also the ones most likely to have read 1984 and Animal Farm, the postwar works that made Orwell a household name. However, some students, writing majors in particular, are often more interested in personal journeys than in bringing news to the world about the things it needs to fix, so they are drawn to the passages where Orwell is principal actor in an exotic locale. For such students, "Shooting an Elephant" is all about the author. They have a point, of course. To an extent, it is. That is part of what makes a personal essay personal.
{"title":"Reflection in the Personal Essay: George Orwell's \"Shooting an Elephant\" as Exemplar","authors":"Michael W. Cox","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although \"Shooting an Elephant\" is a first-person account, I like to point out to my students that the essay is not about the author; it is about Empire or, if they prefer, imperialism…. The essay tends to be a revelation for a certain kind of student used to learning political science in a textbook. As well, students with an interest in rhetoric are drawn to Orwell's integration of storyline and polemic. Literature majors who know a little postcolonial theory are often thrilled to see it brought to life in nonfiction—and they are also the ones most likely to have read 1984 and Animal Farm, the postwar works that made Orwell a household name. However, some students, writing majors in particular, are often more interested in personal journeys than in bringing news to the world about the things it needs to fix, so they are drawn to the passages where Orwell is principal actor in an exotic locale. For such students, \"Shooting an Elephant\" is all about the author. They have a point, of course. To an extent, it is. That is part of what makes a personal essay personal.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"119 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49270036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:It almost goes without saying that we as teachers continue to find ourselves in a tumultuous moment that elides the dimensions of place and space: from a familiar, physical environment that permitted, and perhaps even encouraged, the creation of the classroom- as-stage, we were then thrust into a free-form space, more ambiguous but also exciting in how the classroom came to have potentialities for construction, expectations, creativity—by us and by our students. Now, as we sit in a nebulous "new normal," we ask ourselves if we turn back to the familiar and the comforting or if we are to press forward into a different, virtual-physical "scape" of education, identity, and meaning making.
{"title":"Spaces of Intent: Shaping a Physical-Virtual Classroom for a Post-COVID World","authors":"D. Colley","doi":"10.1353/cea.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:It almost goes without saying that we as teachers continue to find ourselves in a tumultuous moment that elides the dimensions of place and space: from a familiar, physical environment that permitted, and perhaps even encouraged, the creation of the classroom- as-stage, we were then thrust into a free-form space, more ambiguous but also exciting in how the classroom came to have potentialities for construction, expectations, creativity—by us and by our students. Now, as we sit in a nebulous \"new normal,\" we ask ourselves if we turn back to the familiar and the comforting or if we are to press forward into a different, virtual-physical \"scape\" of education, identity, and meaning making.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"105 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44976270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Terry Tempest Williams’s assertion that beauty is not something granted; rather, we must create beauty in a broken world. What in another time I might have dismissed as nothing more than a rusting lawn chair, a stand of brittle grass, or the moon tangled in power lines compelled me to make beautiful images.
{"title":"The World We Find: A Photo Essay","authors":"Pete Fredlake","doi":"10.1353/CEA.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CEA.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Terry Tempest Williams’s assertion that beauty is not something granted; rather, we must create beauty in a broken world. What in another time I might have dismissed as nothing more than a rusting lawn chair, a stand of brittle grass, or the moon tangled in power lines compelled me to make beautiful images.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"39 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CEA.2021.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44188249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:[T]his essay reads how Woolf’s writing allows female subjects— who predominately live and are shaped by upper-middle-class Western society—to confront their representations as women, offering them spaces and moments in which to express themselves while dismantling the anxiety they feel attached to constructed feminine ideals. This confrontation of the feminine self in Woolf’s writing gives a possible answer to her ongoing questions of the unsolved problem of women and writing discussed in her polemic A Room of One’s Own (1929)—the ability to think and live differently to normative rhythms of idealized femininity.
{"title":"Making a World of Her Own: Affect and Womanhood in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway","authors":"Celiese Lypka","doi":"10.1353/CEA.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CEA.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:[T]his essay reads how Woolf’s writing allows female subjects— who predominately live and are shaped by upper-middle-class Western society—to confront their representations as women, offering them spaces and moments in which to express themselves while dismantling the anxiety they feel attached to constructed feminine ideals. This confrontation of the feminine self in Woolf’s writing gives a possible answer to her ongoing questions of the unsolved problem of women and writing discussed in her polemic A Room of One’s Own (1929)—the ability to think and live differently to normative rhythms of idealized femininity.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"51 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CEA.2021.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46636224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Complicating the matter of expertise with the world-literature canon is that many works are written for multicultural and transnational readerships. In the past, these works might have been produced at cultural crossroads; today, many authors are broaching transnational issues and assuming broad, transnational readerships. Who, then, is the expert on these texts?
{"title":"Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses: On World Literature and the Logic of the Beneficiary","authors":"C. Dell’amico, Isabella Kasselstrand","doi":"10.1353/CEA.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CEA.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Complicating the matter of expertise with the world-literature canon is that many works are written for multicultural and transnational readerships. In the past, these works might have been produced at cultural crossroads; today, many authors are broaching transnational issues and assuming broad, transnational readerships. Who, then, is the expert on these texts?","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"18 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CEA.2021.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43124751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Despite the torrential rains that devastated Bermuda and deluged the coasts of Florida and the Carolinas last year, and despite the ongoing flooding in the South and Midwest, and despite the controversy over climate change as contributing to these natural disasters, water, in the form of rain, can be seen as a festival to be celebrated. In his widely anthologized essay, “Rain and the Rhinoceros,” Thomas Merton offers us a meditation on rain as a metaphor for understanding the importance of solitude and contemplation of the rhythms of Nature.
摘要：尽管去年暴雨摧毁了百慕大，淹没了佛罗里达州和卡罗来纳州的海岸，尽管南部和中西部持续发生洪水，尽管气候变化是造成这些自然灾害的原因，但雨水形式的水可以被视为一个值得庆祝的节日。托马斯·默顿（Thomas Merton）在其广为选集的文章《雨与犀牛》（Rain and the Rhinoceros）中，为我们提供了一个关于雨的沉思，以此隐喻我们理解孤独和沉思自然节奏的重要性。
{"title":"Rain, Contemplation, and Social Responsibility: Merton’s Challenge to Us","authors":"Monica R. Weis","doi":"10.1353/CEA.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CEA.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Despite the torrential rains that devastated Bermuda and deluged the coasts of Florida and the Carolinas last year, and despite the ongoing flooding in the South and Midwest, and despite the controversy over climate change as contributing to these natural disasters, water, in the form of rain, can be seen as a festival to be celebrated. In his widely anthologized essay, “Rain and the Rhinoceros,” Thomas Merton offers us a meditation on rain as a metaphor for understanding the importance of solitude and contemplation of the rhythms of Nature.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"87 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CEA.2021.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45489634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The exclusion of black actresses in theatre, in fact, symbolizes the marginalization of black women in society. This essay studies three black actresses in Childress’s plays, Florence (1949), Trouble in Mind: A Comedy-Drama in Two Acts (1955), and Moms: A Praise Play for a Black Comedienne (1987), to see how they are oppressed and then resist sexism and racism in theatre and society…. These three women devote themselves to acting and performances; however, because of racial and gender bias against them, they are positioned on the periphery of American theatre.
{"title":"Jim Crow Onstage: Three Black Actresses in Alice Childress’s Plays","authors":"Y. Shih","doi":"10.1353/CEA.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CEA.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The exclusion of black actresses in theatre, in fact, symbolizes the marginalization of black women in society. This essay studies three black actresses in Childress’s plays, Florence (1949), Trouble in Mind: A Comedy-Drama in Two Acts (1955), and Moms: A Praise Play for a Black Comedienne (1987), to see how they are oppressed and then resist sexism and racism in theatre and society…. These three women devote themselves to acting and performances; however, because of racial and gender bias against them, they are positioned on the periphery of American theatre.","PeriodicalId":41558,"journal":{"name":"CEA CRITIC","volume":"83 1","pages":"69 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/CEA.2021.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48831085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:I propose to apply Eagleton’s concept of “the politics of form” to the way we should, in the present political and pedagogical climate, study and teach poetry—and particularly to how we should approach poems that can easily lead teachers to focus primarily, if not exclusively, on the politics of their content. In particular, Marge Piercy’s widely available “The Secretary Chant” (1973) is an excellent primary exhibit because its popularity with anthologists and teachers alike is due as much to its political relevance as to its status as a poem.
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