Passages to Literature

Résumé du livre

Representing Australia, Canada, England, the United States, and Wales, this collection of essays focuses on ways in which teachers can adapt classroom activities and modify writing assignments to encourage personal response and exploration of texts. Essays, their authors, and nationalities are as follows: (1) "The River and Its Banks: Response and Analysis in the Teaching of Literature" (Robert E. Probst, United States); (2) "Literature in the Secondary School: What Is and What Should Be" (Ken Watson, Australia); (3) "Developing Responses to Character in Literature (John Dixon and Leslie Stratta, England); (4) "A Test-Driven Literary Response Curriculum (Patrick X. Dias, Canada); (5) "Imaginative Investigations: Some Nondiscursive Ways of Writing in Response to Novels" (Peter Adams, Australia); (6) "Novels: Vehicles for Time Travel for Middle School Students" (Ben Brunwin, England and the United States); (7) "Response Model and Formal Method in Tension" (Derrick Sharp, Wales); (8) "A Developmental Approach to Literature Instruction" (Joseph O. Milner, United States); and (9) "The Humanities in Contemporary Life, or, The Bull That Could Waltz Away" (Michael Cooke, United States). (MM)