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Author: Paisley Livingston
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1501746022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaisley Livingston here addresses contemporary controversies over the role of "theory" within the humanistic disciplines. In the process, he suggests ways in which significant modern texts in the philosophy of science relate to the study of literature.
Author: Carol Atherton
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-09-27
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0230501079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources. It addresses issues that are central to the identity of academic English - how the subject came into existence, and what makes it a specialist discipline of knowledge - in a manner that illuminates many of the crises that have affected the development of modern English studies. Atherton also addresses contemporary arguments about the teaching of literary criticism, including an examination of the reforms to A-Level literature.
Author: Paul M. Worley
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0816534276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This volume provides a decolonial framework for reading Maya and Indigenous texts"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Larissa McLean Davies
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-09-29
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1000640841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt a time when knowledge is being 're-valued' as central to curriculum concerns, subject English is being called to account. Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers puts long-standing debates about knowledge and knowing in English in dialogue with an investigation of how English teachers are made in the 21st century. This book explores, for the first time, the role of literature in shaping English teachers’ professional knowledge and identities by examining the impacts, in particular, of their own school teaching in their ‘making’. The voices of early career English teachers feature throughout the work, in a series of vignettes providing reflective accounts of their professional learning. The authors bring a range of disciplinary expertise and standpoints to explore the complexity of knowledge and knowing in English. They ask: How do English teachers negotiate competing curriculum demands? How do they understand literary knowledge in a neoliberal context? What is core English knowledge for students, and what role should literature play in the contemporary curriculum? Drawing on a major longitudinal research project, they bring to light what English teachers see as central to their work, the ways they connect teaching with their disciplinary training, and how their understandings of literary practice are contested and reimagined in the classroom. This innovative work is essential reading for scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of teacher education, English education, literary studies and curriculum studies.
Author: Sherry Lee Linkon
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011-10-06
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 0253223563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterary Learning explores the nature of literary knowledge and offers guidance for effective teaching of literature at the college level. What do English majors need to learn? How can we help them develop the skills and knowledge they need? By identifying the habits of mind that literary scholars use in their own research and writing, Sherry Lee Linkon articulates the strategic knowledge that lies at the heart of the discipline, offering important insights and models for beginning and experienced teachers.
Author: Gavin Lucas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-11-21
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0429815212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do archaeologists make knowledge? Debates in the latter half of the twentieth century revolved around broad, abstract philosophies and theories such as positivism and hermeneutics which have all but vanished today. By contrast, in recent years there has been a great deal of attention given to more concrete, practice-based study, such as fieldwork. But where one was too abstract, the other has become too descriptive and commonly evades issues of epistemic judgement. Writing the Past attempts to reintroduce a normative dimension to knowledge practices in archaeology, especially in relation to archaeological practice further down the ‘assembly line’ in the production of published texts, where archaeological knowledge becomes most stabilized and is widely disseminated. By exploring the composition of texts in archaeology and the relation between their structural, performative characteristics and key epistemic virtues, this book aims to move debate in both knowledge and writing practices in a new direction. Although this book will be of particular interest to archaeologists, the argument offered has relevance for all academic disciplines concerned with how knowledge production and textual composition intertwine.
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780195074857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. Nussbaum investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves emotional as well as intellectual activity, and which gives a certain type of priority to the perception of particular people and situations rather than to abstract rules. She argues that this ethical conception cannot be completely and appropriately stated without turning to forms of writing usually considered literary rather than philosophical. It is consequently necessary to broaden our conception of moral philosophy in order to include these forms. Featuring two new essays and revised versions of several previously published essays, this collection attempts to articulate the relationship, within such a broader ethical inquiry, between literary and more abstractly theoretical elements.
Author: Antje Kley
Publisher: Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS)
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783631750148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays explore how historically specific literary texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to material and social forms as well as representation. Literature is discussed as a culturally embedded form of knowledge production in its own right, which deploys narrative and poetic methods of exploration to establish a dissident archive.
Author: Mary Klages
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780826490735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Guide introduces theory in a clear, accessible way, focusing on the major approaches and theorists.
Author: Stephen R. Grimm
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019-09-19
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0190860979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to understand something? What is the essence of understanding, when compared across multiple domains? Varieties of Understanding offers new and original work on the nature of understanding, raising questions about what understanding looks like from different perspectives and exploring how ordinary people use the notion of understanding. According to a long historical tradition, understanding comes in different varieties. In particular, it is said that understanding people has a different epistemic profile than understanding the natural world-that it calls on different cognitive resources and brings to bear distinctive normative considerations. Thus, in order to understand people we might need to appreciate, or in some way sympathetically reconstruct, the reasons that led a person to act in a certain way. By comparison, when it comes to understanding natural events, like earthquakes or eclipses, no appreciation of reasons or acts of sympathetic reconstruction is arguably needed-mainly because there are no reasons on the scene to even be appreciated, and no perspectives to be sympathetically pieced together. This volume brings together some of the world's leading philosophers, psychologists, and theologians in order to shed light on the various ways in which we understand the world, pushing debates on this issue to new levels of sophistication and insight.
