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ERIC Number: EJ487721
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0731-6755
Re-Fusing the Edifice: Postmodernism and the Reconstruction of English Studies.
Grant, Gordon A., III
Journal of Advanced Composition, v14 n2 p389-412 Fall 1994
Outlines the historical development of modernism and its impact on literary studies in today's classrooms. Advocates abandoning modernist teaching modes. Describes an alternative postmodernist epistemology and how it might inform literary studies, particularly in fostering an ethics of reading and writing. (HB)
Descriptors: College English, Educational Trends, Epistemology, Higher Education, Modernism, Politics of Education, Postmodernism, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Composition Theory; Historical Background; Literary Theory