In his book Teaching Shakespeare, Rex Gibson does an admirable job of offering an exhaustive list of Shakespeare’s literary conventions, but I am tempted to say that all, or almost all, depend upon the interplay of difference and repetition. Obviously, repeating phrases makes use of similarities in language. Building emotional tension in this way is […]
On the surface, literary criticism seems to be writing about writing. Often its purpose, stated or unstated, is simply to arrive at a better understanding of the text. In this respect, such writing often presumes that works have a single meaning, and that this meaning is pretty much what the author intended when he or […]
This web log was started as part of a graduate course on the theory and pedagogy of English instruction at the secondary level. It is my hope that this blog will enable me to better understand the nature of blogging and the possibility of using web logs as part of the secondary English curriculum. I also […]
