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The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study

Name: The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226736136
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Contributors:

Rachel Sagner Buurma

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Literary Criticism, Education, Language Arts & Disciplines

Book Subcategory:

Schools

Book Topic:

Levels

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Release Date:

2020-12-04

ISBN 13:

9780226736136

Weight:

1 lbs

Size:

8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inches

Pages:

320

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The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan open up "the teaching archive"-the syllabuses, course descriptions, lecture notes, and class assignments-of critics and scholars including T. S. Eliot, Caroline Spurgeon, I. A. Richards, Edith Rickert, J. Saunders Redding, Edmund Wilson, Cleanth Brooks, Josephine Miles, and Simon J. Ortiz. This new history of English rewrites what we know about the discipline by showing how students helped write foundational works of literary criticism and how English classes at community colleges and HBCUs pioneered the reading methods and expanded canons that came only belatedly to the Ivy League. It reminds us that research and teaching, which institutions often imagine as separate, have always been intertwined in practice. In a contemporary moment of humanities defunding, the casualization of teaching, and the privatization of pedagogy, The Teaching Archive offers a more accurate view of the work we have done in the past and must continue to do in the future.

About the Author
Rachel Sagner Buurma is associate professor of English literature at Swarthmore College. Laura Heffernan is associate professor of English at the University of North Florida.