Mary Aswell Doll

To the Lighthouse and Back

Writings on Teaching and Living

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The book's basic thesis is that learning, like living, is comedic. Comedy instructs through metaphor - seeing likeness between opposites - and in reading everything as text. The book thereby revisions education as Comedy. It suggests that the subjects of all assignments must connect with the subjective reader. Accordingly, it includes student writings, personal memoirs, dreams, poems, myths, journals, and artwork - as well as critiques of mainstream writing and teaching. From classwork with Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor, assignments are offered to prod students into awareness of their deeper selves, their others, nature,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8204-2777-5
EAN: 9780820427775
Produktnummer: 20687418
Verlag: Lang, Peter
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
Seitenangabe: 172 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 270 g
Abbildungen: Illustrations, port.
Reihenbandnummer: 19
Gewicht: 270

Über den Autor

The Author: Mary Aswell Doll is Professor of English at Our Lady of Holy Cross College in New Orleans. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies at Syracuse University. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, she wrote Beckett and Myth: An Archetypal Approach and co-edited In the Shadow of the Giant: Thomas Wolfe.