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ERIC Number: EJ624656
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0098-6291
Inviting Students To Challenge the American Literature Syllabus.
Peterson, Beverly
Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v28 n4 p379-82 May 2001
Suggests that it is easier to invigorate class discussion and stimulate critical thinking if students discover the constructed nature of the canon by first seeing that their notions about a "typical" Poe story have been shaped by an often invisible process of selection and exclusion. (SG)
Descriptors: Censorship, Critical Thinking, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Reading Instruction, Reading Material Selection, Two Year Colleges, United States Literature
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Literary Canon; Poe (Edgar Allan)